NIPCO Plc, has appointed Suresh Kumar as Managing Director of the organisation. The appointment takes effect from February 1, 2020 as he replaced Sanjay Teotia who is now the managing director, NIPCO Gas Ltd. NIPCO announced that Kumar will be…
The January 2013 African Union Summit adopted Agenda 2063 – “The Africa We Want” – as Africa’s blueprint and master plan for sustainable development and economic growth of the continent. It is an affirmation by African Heads of State and…
Rand Merchant Bank’s ninth edition of Where to Invest in Africa has returned to their roots, the sectors they believe are key to unlocking the continent’s growth potential. For 2019, co-authors Celeste Fauconnier, Neville Mandimika and Nema Ramkhelawan-Bhana delve deeper…
Nigeria’s Obiageli Ezekwesili in conjunction with the Robert Bosch Academy presents the #FixPolitics Initiative with an inaugural conference in Lagos. Ezekwesili who is currently a Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow under the academy, has spent the last 6 months probing the…
The annual Africa Startup Summit took place in Kigali last week, with six of the continent’s most prolific investors taking to the stage for the keynote panel discussion around creating a generation of funded African startups. Here are seven things…
In several news reports, World Bank President David Malpass was recently quoted as saying some Multilateral Development Banks, including the African Development Bank, have a tendency to lend too quickly and in the process, add to the continent’s debt problems.…
Kole and Amina are two of a kind in all essence for me. The support for anti-corruption campaigns in Nigeria by MacArthur Foundation, which this duo anchor together with their team, remain by far the most far-reaching, as well as…
In the 2019 SDG index, Nigeria ranked 159th among 162 countries compared in terms of their achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Nigeria’s performance score of 46.4 is just a little above the score for the Central African Republic, a…
By Jonathan Rozen/CPJ Senior Africa Researcher on February 13, 2020 As reporters for Nigeria’s Premium Times newspaper, Samuel Ogundipe and Azeezat Adedigba told CPJ they spoke often over the phone. They had no idea that their regular conversations about work and their personal lives were…
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the Federal Government to “disclose within 7 days of the receipt and/or publication of our Freedom of Information requests the exact amount of public funds stolen by a former military head of state,…
