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.
Hakeem Olajuwon turned footwork into art and leadership into habit—showing how faith, humility, and repetition create durable greatness.

Adebayo Ogunlesi built a playbook for owning and operating world-class infrastructure—airports, energy assets, and transport—by stacking law, finance…

Examining whether Nigeria is making sufficient and effective investments in election security ahead of 2027 to ensure credible polls.

So, for man to demonstrate the capacity of God on the earth, God fashioned him after Himself. When God was making man, He simply looked at no other t…

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

How will you deal with Malabu?

Economic experts have said that the drop in inflation figure from 18.72 in January to 17.78 per cent in February was a signal that the country’s ec…

Nigeria’s GDP performance improved slightly in the 4th quarter of 2016, and showed us a route to recovery. The current recession has affected all o…

Dangote Cement Plc (www.Dangote.com) exported 0.4 million tons of cement to other countries in 2016, 54 per cent more than what it shipped in 2015. T…

As part of the commitments of the House of Representatives to open up more revenue sources for Nigeria through legislative tools, it has organised a…

The Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Nigeria on Tuesday called for a quick passage of the 2017 budget by the authorities concerned an…

During the official launch of the new airline at the Sam Mbakwe International Cargo airport in Owerri, the Imo state capital, the Governor, Mr Rochas…

In a matter of hours from now, the World Economic Forum holding in Switzerland would come to an end. Close to 3,000 leaders from over 140 countries i…

It is not an exaggeration to say that the battle to achieve the global society’s stated objectives on hunger and poverty reduction will be won or los…

This Steel Company is obviously huge and great in capacity. It has the capacity to meet our local steel needs and serve the entire African market. To…

It is claimed that majority of Nigerians live below the poverty line. The poverty threshold or poverty line is the minimum level of income deemed ade…

Since sworn in on May 29, 2015 as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari had embarked on numerous foreign trips…
