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Namibia’s plan to benefit from natural resources does not involve taking equity stakes in mining and oil companies, a government official said https://t.co/bxNQNI4gD8
I hope our elected officials and appointees in waiting from the north will buckle up and move the region forward.
@hafeez_ahmd your attention to detail is second to none. I agree with you that this is a welcome development to Nigeria.
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Africa's Best President Ever
In 4 years, Thomas Sankara
Built 350 schools, roads, railways without foreign aid
Increased the literacy rate by 60%
Banned forced marriages
Gave poor people land
Vaccinated 2.5 million kids
Planted 10 million trees
Stopped French imperialism
Russian oil, with a shrinking pool of buyers, is set to be stored in Ghana, a country that exports barrels and has no major operational refinery https://t.co/HT2HlGB9zl
Nigerian bonds are rallying as investors bet that ruling-party candidate Bola Tinubu — who’s taken an early lead in the presidential election tally — will pull the economy out of a fiscal mess https://t.co/LOI0raRTuO
Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest person, says the turnout in Saturday’s Nigerian presidential election was the highest he’d seen in more than two decades https://t.co/hbx3ONSz7F
"African countries are getting a raw deal from the international financial system which charges them 'extortionate' interest rates, the U.N. chief said on Saturday, as he announced $250 million in crisis funding, including for famine risk on the continent" https://t.co/fealqs8RMd
DRC is demanding an additional $17 billion of investments from a 2008 infrastructure-for-minerals deal with Chinese investors that is currently being renegotiated.
So far, only $822m of the originally agreed $3bn was spent on infra investments https://t.co/BHdEzKl7BH
Mum is the first of 5 boys & 5 girls. Her dad decided that boys get education while women are meant for the kitchen.
Years later, she was dating Dad. He told her of a junior staff opening in a top tier company. She applied and got the job.
This just arrived! My book, “Economic Diversification in Nigeria: the Politics of Building a Post-Oil Economy” is out in < 2 weeks.
The digital copy is open access and available for free
I have some discount vouchers for those who want to purchase the print copy
More to come