Akinwumi Adesina: Feeding Africa, Financing Growth, and Leading with Optimism
Akinwumi Adesina transformed Nigerian agriculture and now leads AfDB with optimism, reframing Africa’s challenges as trillion-dollar opportunities.
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Akinwumi Adesina transformed Nigerian agriculture and now leads AfDB with optimism, reframing Africa’s challenges as trillion-dollar opportunities.
Dora Akunyili’s biography explores her fearless fight against fake drugs in Nigeria and her enduring legacy of integrity.

Barack Obama’s biography explores his journey from Chicago to the White House, inspiring a generation with hope and vision.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s biography explores her rise from Nigerian academia to WTO Director-General, inspiring women and reformers.

Nelson Mandela’s life story reveals resilience, forgiveness, and the triumph of justice over oppression. A must-read biography of a global leader.

The Super Eagles have talent, but can Nigeria win the FIFA World Cup? Examining strengths, weaknesses, and the reforms needed for global football glo…

Nigerian universities are in decline, but reforms in funding, curriculum, and governance can still rescue the system and secure the country’s future.

Why do Nigerians still avoid hospitals despite urbanization? Explore cultural roots, trust issues, costs, and the reforms needed for real healthcare…

Examining whether Nigeria’s fuel subsidy removal is driving long-term economic growth or just deepening citizens’ suffering.

The word of God is a life given tool to as many people that believes in it. When you see a life that has been shattered and battered by the devil, th…

Many today are not active spiritually because they have not taken time to develop that part of their being. And there are those as well, who have giv…

The whole idea about policing anywhere in the World is that of safety, maintenance of public order and all that has to do with protection of lives an…

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN has assured Nigerians that doing business in the country is becoming easier going by the recent reforms undertaken…

Despite our own personal failings and inadequacies, we expect our leaders to do everything right—from finding solutions to complex problems affecti…

A leading economist and financial derivatives analyst, Bismarck Rewane, has predicted that Nigeria will start to experience a ‘slow’ but ‘painf…

When the late Dele Giwa wrote more than 30 years ago that Nigerians have been shocked to the state of “unshockabilityâ€, he was basing his thesis…

It has been said that talk is cheap; and if I may, I would compare men and women that only talk to the situation where it is said that if wishes were…

On May 29, 2015, Muhammadu Buhari assumed office as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. For many Nigerians, expectations were somehow high…
