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.
Can Nigerian startups thrive without venture capital? Explore bootstrapping, government policy, and the resilience of entrepreneurs in Africa’s large…

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

Recently I was thinking about it and I discovered that many African nations, it is just a cursory view of many African nations not being ruled or led…

There is a spiritual mechanism in man that produces good Character. The best Character traits are produced, and not imitated. Those who imitate the C…

Sometimes, it appears Nigeria is consistently growing backward. This can be seen in issues and all the mundane things that the country is struggling…

If you see a future, you know where ever the person is, is not where you have seen. There is a difference, there is a growth that is needed. That mak…

But it appears that there is a beam of hope as to the fact that not all politicians are the same. Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State is showing how a…

Therefore, the secret to effectiveness in the work of ministry is believing in Jesus Christ, following the leading of His Spirit at all times and doi…

There is an enormous responsibility that this power confers on those who hold it per time. They can either use it to better the lots of their people…

The shared-resource in this context would be monies that otherwise, should have gone for developmental projects and benefits the lots of Ekiti State…

President Muhammadu Buhari did not put Nigerian youths first while making those remarks in the Commonwealth Business Forum. As a leader of a great na…

If you are a sincere and patriotic Nigerian like Madam Oby Ezekwesili, and the political situation of this country isn’t tiring, frustrating and di…

The story that Alhajis Mohammed Tunga and Garba Kamba of Kebbi state conspired to divert N664 million from ‘Imam training’ to their own pockets c…

For a long time, I had held the notion that principal actors in the events that led to the collapse of the First Republic and its aftermath should do…

The outgoing governor of Jakarta has been sentenced to two years in prison for blasphemy and inciting violence. Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, known as Ahok…

Following the loss of corruption cases last week many Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) agree with the Federal Government that corruption is fightin…

How will you deal with Malabu?
