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Dodoma Ring Road Named After AfDB Icon Akinwumi Adesina

Ihesiulo Grace 18 June 2025 0

In a powerful tribute that cements his legacy as a transformative African leader, Tanzania has named the newly completed 112-kilometre Dodoma Outer Ring Road after Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, the immediate past President of the African Development Bank (AfDB). The renaming of the key national highway

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15-Yr $500m Nigeria Trust Fund: Adesina Grateful To FG

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 28 May 2025 0

…Gives Account Of 10-Yr Stewardship As AfDB President BY PATRICK WEMAMBU President, African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, has expressed gratitude to the Federal Government for approving a $500 million capital replenishment of the Nigeria Trust Fund (NTF) – extending the facility for an additional 15 years to support development financing across

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The Importance of Education for Africa’s Economic Growth

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 30 April 2025 0

Education is the cornerstone of every prosperous society, and for Africa, a continent rich in resources and potential, it is essential for sustainable economic growth. Nelson Mandela once said, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world,” a notion that resonates even more today as Africa seeks to overcome […]

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AfDB campaigns forAgriculture support in Africa

Ihesiulo Grace 25 February 2018 0

The President of the African Development Bank, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina has made a strong case for increased American and global investments to help unlock Africa’s agriculture potential. He made the remarks as the Distinguished Guest Speaker, at the USDA’s 94th Agriculture Outlook Forum in Virginia on Thursday, on the theme The Roots of Prosperity. According […]

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AfDB to aid Africa’s power sector with $12bn – Adesina

Ihesiulo Grace 24 November 2017 0

The President, Africa Development Bank (AfDB), Dr. Akinwumi Adesina , has said that the bank would invest $12 billion in the power sector in Africa in four years with the goal of leveraging on the aviation sector. He made this disclosure on Wednesday in Abuja, that the aviation sector was very important to the continent […]

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Africa holds the key for feeding 9 billion people by 2050- Adesina

Ihesiulo Grace 17 October 2017 0

Africa holds the key for feeding the nine billion people that will inhabit this planet by 2050, the President of the African Development Bank and 2017 World Food Prize Laureate, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, said during his Norman Borlaug Lecture delivered on World Food Day. The Laureate also called for land tax for unused agricultural land […]

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Tale of Two Ministers

Ihesiulo Grace 28 March 2015 0

When former Minister of Agriculture, Alhaji Adamu Bello took on the incumbent of the same seat, Dr Akinwunmi Adesina, many Nigerians expressed shock. Shock in the sense that many people believe that the Adesina’s approach to making people to see agriculture as business in one of the best things that have happened to Nigerians under […]

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Reps Reject Rural Devt Budget Over Minister's Absence

Ihesiulo Grace 11 March 2015 0

The House of Representatives Committee on Rural Development has threatened not to appropriate money to the Department of Rural Development of the Ministry of Agriculture over the absence of the minister, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, at a scheduled budget defence exercise yesterday. The department, which was led by the ministry’s permanent secretary, was to defend its […]