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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