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12 Apr
The African Development Bank (AfDB) says it is solidifying its partnership with Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in West Africa.
11 Apr
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has restated its commitment to harness the power of education and skills development as catalysts for economic growth and social progress across the continent.
30 Mar
Designed to support practitioners and decision makers to turn migration into a force for development in Africa, the African Development Bank (AfDB)and the International Organisation for Migration
17 Mar
It is beginning to appear that our leaders are not ready to read any writings on the walls. They don’t seem to be interested in any risk analysis of these difficult times. They appear too busy to be aware that our democracy isn’t working.
12 Mar
The lack of productive, formal employment is increasingly pushing Africa’s youth to start their businesses as entrepreneurs. Africa boasts the world’s highest rates of entrepreneurship, with more than one in five working-age Africans..
11 Mar
Often described as the optimist general of Africa, the President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr Akinwumi Adesina, holds a strong view on the prospect of the continent breaking into the global frontier to drive the next phase of growth.
9 Mar
We are officially in the Women’s Month! And it’s a few days to Guardian Woman Festival holding at the Federal Palace Hotel, Victoria Osland, in Lagos. We have the first male guest who is a defender of women’s right, the president of the African Development Bank...
6 Mar
For Dr Herbert Wigwe, the late courageous banker who saw Access Bank, an institution that prides itself as the biggest Nigerian financial institution through thick and thin, this is the week.
5 Mar
President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr Akinwumi Adesina, yesterday dismissed monetary tightening as capable of addressing the food price crisis, insisting the only solution is scaling food production.
3 Mar
The African Development Bank (AfDB) is supporting Nigeria in the cultivation of rice, maize, cassava and soyabeans to boost food production.
1 Mar
The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Mr Akinwumi Adesina, has identified youth unemployment and poverty as the factors driving insecurity and migration on the continent.
1 Mar
The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) said Nigeria and the entire Africa could produce between 30 to 60 million tonnes of green hydrogen yearly by 2050, out of which 20 to 40 million tonnes could be exported as pure hydrogen, ammonia and synthetic fuels.
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The 23rd Senior African Athletics Championship scheduled for Douala, Cameroon in June, may offer Nigerian relay teams and some individual athletes the opportunity to qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
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Nigerian budding footballers, who want to combine their sport career with education, now have the opportunity as English Championship side, Coventry City Football Club, has provided that chance for the skilful lads.
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Greenfield Leasing Services Limited’s Executive Vice Chairman, Jacob Erhabor, has won the maiden CEOs Golf Tournament sponsored by African Reinsurance Corporation at the golf section of Ikoyi Club 1938.
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Over 1,500 athletes representing 13 companies in the oil and gas sector will participate in the 19th Nigeria Oil and Gas Industry Games beginning in Abuja on April 21. The event ends on April 27.
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Failure of the last administration to put its money where its mouth is has stalled the rail rehabilitation work on the eastern corridor, three years after its flag-off.
Findings showed that the project, estimated to cost $3.2 billion, has become a hard sell to investors.
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Ahead of today’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the main opposition’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), governors elected on the party’s platform yesterday rose from a meeting and declared that they won’t discuss change of leadership for the party.
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An angry mob of travellers, yesterday, lynched personnel of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) in Kaita Local Council of Katsina State.
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River State chapter of Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN) and Nollywood practitioners, yesterday, paid a solidarity visit to Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State, seeking support for the family of late Precious Chimaobi Ofurum, popularly known as Junior Pope, who is an indigene of the state.
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Less than two weeks after a peaceful election of its officials, a leadership crisis may have erupted in the AlaIgbo Development Foundation (ADF), as its founding National President, Emeritus Prof. Uzodinma Nwala, yesterday, announced the suspension of eleven officials of the organisation
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Stakeholders in the oil-rich but impoverished Niger Delta region have picked holes in the global call for an energy transition from fossil fuel to renewable energy, saying that the process and intentions of the West should be interrogated before African countries embrace it hook, line and sinker.