(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Senegalese opposition leader has called on supporters to be ready to defend their votes by any means, accusing the ruling party of President Macky Sall of wanting to steal a legislative election the opposition claims to have won. Official results of Sunday’s vote are expected on Thursday, but both Sall’s ruling […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – African Development Bank (AfDB) has called for the scaling up of startup investments across Africa in order to grow tech entrepreneurs and enhance financial inclusion in the continent. AfDB’s Director General for East Africa, Nenna Nwabufo gave the charge while speaking at the 9th World Financial Innovation Series in Nairobi, Kenya. The […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Magistrates’ Court in Wuse, Abuja, has issued a warrant of arrest against the Managing Director of Wema Bank Plc, Ademola Adebise, for alleged forgery. The court ordered the immediate arrest of Adebise by the Nigeria Police Force and other security agencies in the country. “You are hereby directed to arrest the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The African Development Bank (AfDB) has appointed Mrs. Marie-Laure Akin-Olugbade, née Ndongo-Seh, as Acting Vice-President of its Regional Development, Integration and Business Delivery Complex, with effect from 1st August Akin-Olugbade, a Cameroonian national, is currently the Director General of the Business Development and Delivery Office for the West Africa Region of the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Host communities of the Oil Mining Licence (OML) 11 in Rivers and Abia States have rejected Sahara Energy except the federal government, through Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC), dialogue with them on the operatorship of the licence. The communities under the aegis of Ogoni, Asa, Imo River OML11 Oil Producing Communities insisted […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Government of Côte d’Ivoire has commended the African Development Bank (AfDB) for its support for the development of the agricultural sector. of its economy. Ivorian Prime Minister, Patrick Achi gave the commendation during the launch of the agro-industrial project in northern Côte d’Ivoire supported by the AfDB. The project which is […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the United Nations global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises, has announced a new $25 million catalytic seed funding to roll out a first-ever Multi-Year Resilience Programme in Cameroon. ECW supports quality education outcomes for refugee, internally displaced and other crisis-affected girls and boys, so no […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former President of the Performing Musicians Association of Nigeria (PMAN) Tee Mac Omatshola Iseli has denied claims that he said that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is not fit to lead the country and he was wrongly quoted. The African Examiner recalls that Tee […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Egyptian Minister of International Cooperation, Dr. Rania Al-Mashat has expressed optimism and applauded her country’s New Strategy Paper for the 2022-2026 fiscal year. The new strategy for the north African nation, builds on results and lessons from the preceding 2015-2021 strategy paper, which helped develop the country’s infrastructure and improve the business […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – AfDB Approves Over $20m Grant To Raise Food Production In Malawi The African Development Fund (ADF), the concessional window of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group, has approved a $20.2 million grant to raise food production in Malawi. Part of the Bank Group’s African Emergency Food Production Facility, the project is premised […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Participants at a Panel Dialogue on the African Development Bank’s African Economic Outlook 2022 said on Wednesday that Africa deserves the highest priority attention it can get at the United Nations climate conference, COP 27 holding in November this year in Egypt. The event which was hosted by the Atlantic Council in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Heads of State of the East Africa Community (EAC) have officially launched the 42.4km Arusha Bypass Road which seeks to decongest traffic in the towns of Arusha and Moshi and to promote intra-regional trade. The road project was commissioned during the EAC Heads of State summit, which took place in Arusha, Tanzania. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – African Development Fund has approved a $4.3 million grant to fund capacity building within Ethiopia’s finance ministry and related government departments. The grant is to enable Ethiopia tackle declining growth and other economic challenges. The country’s Ministry of Finance will implement the project. The project will support capacity strengthening of the Government […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Secretariat for the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) have launched phase one of the Africa Cloud Ecosystem Project. The regional cloud ecosystem project will be financed with a $550,000 grant from the NEPAD Infrastructure Project Preparation Facility Special Fund (NEPAD-IPPF) to support […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Kenyan government on Thursday sent 19 police officers to Somalia to help strengthen stabilisation efforts in the country. Police spokesman Bruno Shioso said in a statement that the officers would join an ongoing peacekeeping mission under the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) “which is aiming at de-escalating violence in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Moroccan peacekeeper was accidentally shot dead on Wednesday in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces (FAR) said on Thursday. The soldier was accidentally shot in Butembo, North Kivu by a UN police officer who was part of the teams sent to reinforce the Moroccan contingent, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – African Development Fund (ADF), the concessional window of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group, has approved a grant of $2 million to boost food production in Sierra Leone. The programme falls under the AfDB’s $1.5 billion African Emergency Food Production Facility, a response to the global food crisis that resulted from the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former President Olusegun Obasanjo used to be a chimera. His influence was mythical, yet sweeping. In the past, Nigeria was too small to contain his stature — as he dominated the horizons across Africa and beyond. He lived up to his legend of being a human Orisa. He is, perhaps, still one […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – African Development Bank (AfDB) has expressed its justification for prioritizing climate financing in its development intervention programmes in Africa. The Bank said the premium it places on climate finance, strengthened its commitment to double its climate finance from $12.5 billion in the 2016-2020 period to $25 billion between 2020-2025 and to allocate […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – At least 30 passengers were killed and several others injured on Sunday evening when their bus fell off a bridge and plunged into a river along the highway in Tharaka Nithi. The Eastern Regional Police Commander Rono Brunei said on Monday. The bus, travelling from Meru town to the coastal city of […]
