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Prof Akin Adesina Call him Super President, you may not be wrong. Professor Akin Adesina, President of the African Development Bank is always in the news for good and genuine reasons. This time around, the continent’s number one technocrat has added another feather to his cap as he bags the Obafemi Awolowo biennial leadership award for the year 2023. Announcing the winner of the award, The former Secretary General of the Commonwealth who is also the chairman of the selection committee for the award disclosed on Thursday at a press conference in Lagos that the award is an initiative to preserve the leadership legacy of the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo who was the continent’s best performing politician in the area of service delivery on the dividends of democracy. In Anyaoku’s word, the award “was established as an independent, non-profit, non-partisan organisation dedicated to immortalising the democratic and development-oriented ideals of Chief Obafeni Awolowo.” It is “a prestigious, bie

  Gov Rotimi Akeredolu  During the crisis that followed late President Umaru Yar’Adua’s medical trip to Saudi Arabia in 2009, a number of prominent Nigerians advocated that the proper thing was for him to resign from office. Those who canvassed this ‘principled’ position at the time enjoyed not only media limelight but also public adulation. One was a certain Rotimi Akeredolu, the current Governor of Ondo State. What made Akeredolu’s strident calls for Yar’Adua’s resignation somewhat controversial at the time was his position as Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) president. Since the body never sat to take a definite position on Yar’Adua’s health, not a few lawyers felt uncomfortable with Akeredolu’s public stance. But he was unrelenting.  On 4th December 2009, a valedictory session held in honour of the then retiring President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Umar Abdullahi. Although Akeredolu did not personally attend the session as he was said to be indisposed on that day, his speech was

  Prof Akin Adesina The poor management of resources with gross insensitivity of African leaders to the plights of the poor has come under the hammer of Professor Akinwumi Adesina, President of the African Development Bank (ADB), who condemns the poor management of resources which leads to poverty in the continent. “If we manage our resources very well, Africa has no reason to be poor", he says.  Speaking in Lagos on the theme: For The World To Respect Africa at a lecture delivered to mark the 40th anniversary of The Guardian Newspaper, Adesina says with the current trajectory, Africa careens toward catastrophe if nothing is done to alleviate poverty for numerous Africans especially if we continue to take loans backed by our natural resources. It’s so unconscionable that Africans are groaning under the yoke of mismanagement by leaders who only care about themselves, it’s like standing in the ocean and washing one’s face with spittle, it’s unacceptable.  How long will the people co

  Namukwaya the Babies’ Mother If you’re a woman in your forties or fifties and you’re losing hope of having babies, this African woman has rekindled your hope of fertility.  Like the biblical Sarah, call it a miracle as this Ugandan woman defies what can be called scientific odds to give birth to twins at the age of 70. On Wednesday the 30th November, Safina Namukwaya of Uganda gave birth to twins at a medical facility in Kampala the country’s capital in what can be described as the miraculous child delivery of the century. Dr Edward Tamale Sali who supervised the delivery of the twins (a boy and a girl) describes it as “extraordinary achievement delivering twins to Africa’s oldest mother at 70” Namukwaya & Her Doctor  Namukwaya, the mother of the babies says, “there’s no way to express my joy at this moment because at 70, when I’m considered weak, unable to get pregnant and deliver, or look after a baby, here is a miracle of the twins. Namukwaya had her first child 23 years ago a

Since the swearing in of the present government on May 29, 2023, the economic index of Nigeria has become worse in all respect. The country is witnessing heightened inflation, social facilities and infrastructures are in a state of pitiable decay, the rate of unemployment is getting worse, criminality including terrorism remains unchecked. The government has shown obvious incapacity and helplessness in evolving micro and macroeconomic policies that effectively addresses the imbalance in the economy, a factor that has adversely affected the value of the naira. To argue that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu seems unprepared for the task of giving national direction to the Nigerian state is not out of point. Kidnapping and the preponderance of terroristic activities in the country have witnessed resurgence. The Naira depreciating to over N1000 to $1 is the worse level of economic degradation that Nigerians ever expected. With the present rate of the naira in competition at the Foreign Exchange

Rosalynn with husband Jimmy Carter The United States former First Lady, Rosalynn Carter, wife of President Jimmy Carter is dead.  She died on Sunday at the age of 96. Eleanor Rosalynn Carter was born in August 18, 1927 in Plains, GA and got married to her husband Jimmy in 1946. A mental health activist, Rosalynn served as First Lady from 1976 to 1980 and became a public advocate for humanitarian cause. In May 2023, she was diagnosed with dementia and entered the hospice 2 days before she passed on Sunday in Plains GA. She will be remembered for the good legacies she bequeathed in mental health reforms, humanitarian cause, loyalty, fidelity and family values.

  Nuhu Ribadu  National Security Adviser (NSA) Nuhu Ribadu, always wears a permanent visor of one who needs to be pitied. Last Monday, however, he advertised far more pity with his pithy speech. The venue was the Chief of Defence Intelligence 2023 Annual Conference in Abuja. His white babanriga fluffing angelically and struggling to cling to his lean frame, Ribadu suddenly skidded off the runway of his prepared speech and went ad-lib. At the juncture where he needed to talk about the “serious budgetary constraints” which he said the present government was facing, Ribadu could not contain what he had stomached before now. “Yes, we’re facing budgetary constraints,” he began, pity shrouding his face like a hail of smoke. “It is okay for me to tell you. Fine, it is important for you to know that we have inherited a very difficult situation, literally a bankrupt country, no money, to a point where we can say that all the money we’re getting now, we’re paying back what was taken. It is serio

  Atiku & Tinubu Aso Rock takes a swipe at Atiku Abubakar who holds a pessimistic view of a bleak future for Nigeria in a press conference.  Atiku Abubakar, a former Vice President and presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) had challenged his 2023 electoral loss at the Appeal and Supreme Court which eventually gave victory to Mr Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a former Nigerian senator and governor of Lagos State. In his press conference, Atiku said Nigeria is doomed with travesty of Justice in the judicial system, poorly-managed economy, insecurity and plethora of problems bedeviling the country. Bayo Onanuga Special Adviser to the President on Information & Strategy while taking Atiku to the cleaners responds that it is Atiku’s political ambition that is doomed not the country. Here’s his full statement on behalf of the presidency: TIME FOR ATIKU ABUBAKAR TO FINALLY GO AWAY AND END HIS AMBITION TO BE PRESIDENT Former Vice President and Peoples Democratic Party Presi

  Atiku Abubakar  Former Vice President and the Presidential Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar in his international press conference on Monday said Nigeria is doomed with travesty of Justice in the judicial system, poorly-managed economy, insecurity and plethora of problems bedeviling the country.  Here is full statement: Someone asked me what I would do if I lost my election petition appeal at the Supreme Court. In response, I said that as long as Nigeria wins, the struggle would have been worth the while. By that, I meant that the bigger loss would not be mine but Nigeria’s if the Supreme Court legitimizes illegality, including forgery, identity theft, and perjury. If the Supreme Court, the highest court in the land, implies by its judgment that crime is good and should be rewarded, then Nigeria has lost and the country is doomed irrespective of who occupies the Presidential seat. If the Supreme Court decides that the Electoral umpire, INEC, can tell the

  Muhammadu Buhari  RARELY in modern times can so few have tried to take so much from so many. If Nigeria had lost its arbitration dispute with Process & Industrial Development in a London court on 23 October, it would have cost our people close to USD15 billion. We won, and all decent people can sleep easier as a result. Justice Robin Knowles said Nigeria had been the victim of a monstrous fraud. But it was a close-run thing. As the judge said: “I end the case acutely conscious of how readily the outcome could have been different, and of the enormous resources ultimately required from Nigeria as the successful party to make good its challenge.” But ordinary Nigerians never took the decisions that ended up before Justice Knowles. Had Nigeria lost, it would have required schools not to be built, nurses not to be trained and roads not to repaired, on an epic scale, to pay a handful of contractors, lawyers and their allies - for a project that never broke ground. How did it get to thi