By Nwafor Sunday Akinwumi Adesina has been re-elected as the President of the African Development Bank President on Thursday. With this election, Adesian will spend another five years managing and supervising the affairs of the bank. READ ALSO: Afreximbank financial performance in first half of 2020 pleasing — Oramah The election took place electronically on […]

After rain comes sunshine; after darkness comes the glorious dawn. There is no sorrow without its alloy of joy; there is no joy without its admixture of sorrow. Behind the ugly terrible mask of misfortune lies the beautiful soothing countenance of prosperity. So, tear the mask’ was one of Obafemi Awolowo’s memorable, quotations.

By Olu Fasan IN 2015, when Akinwumi Adesina ran for the presidency of the African Development Bank, AfDB, I wrote a piece in my Businessday column entitled “AfDB presidency: Adesina, best candidate for the job” (BusinessDay, May 4, 2015). Apart from the national prestige in a Nigerian heading an international economic institution, I believed Adesina […]

By his bow tie, you know him. And that distinguishing feature was firmly in place when Dr Akinwumi Adesina, President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), breezed into the Presidential Villa at Abuja on June 3, 2020.

Former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, has called on former African presidents to support the President of African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr Akinwumi Adesina, in the midst of controversial ‘probe’ from outside the African region. Obasanjo took time out to exhaust some of the achievements of the former Minister of Agriculture as the President of […]