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Buhari, Okonjo-Iweala, Adesina chart path to development at Lagos economic summit

Ihesiulo Grace 17 February 2021 0

By Benjamin Omoike President Muhammadu Buhari, newly-elected Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and the President, African Development Bank (AFDB), Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, have called for infrastructural development, investment in youths and enhanced

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AFDB extends ‘Desert to Power’ Program to Nigeria

Ihesiulo Grace 26 January 2021 0

By Doosuur Iwambe The President of African Development Bank (AfDB) Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, has announced that the bank is set to undertake its ‘Desert to Power’ initiative in Nigeria to meet up the challenge of power failure. Adesina who made this known within the week at the African Investment Conference organized by the UK’s Department […]

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BBC Africa retracts ‘flamboyant’ description of Adesina

Ihesiulo Grace 28 August 2020 0

BBC Africa has retracted its earlier description of African Development Bank Chairman, Akinwumi Adesina, whom it termed as “flamboyant Nigerian banker”.  BBC Africa had described Adesina as flamboyant in its headline announcing his reelection as the chairman of the African Development Bank (AfDB) on Thursday. Following the announcement, Nigerians took to Twitter to

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Who’s afraid of Akinwunmi Adesina?

Ihesiulo Grace 14 June 2020 0

The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) or Banque Africaine de Development was founded on September 10, 1964 shortly after the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) was established in 1963 by the 23 independent African nations at the time. AfDB is a multilateral finance development institution comprising three entities: The African Development Bank; The African Development

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Africa must trade smart to drive growth, intra-trade – AfDB boss

Ihesiulo Grace 26 July 2018 0

…Says AfCFTA Africa’s traded goods, services would hit $35bn per year …Provides trade credit support of $900m to Afreximbank …We need sustained strategic shift to industrialisation, increased intra-African trade- Afreximbank The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, has said that with the rapidly changing world of trade