Category: Obiter

– Michael Birnbaum European leaders plan to use a summit that starts Thursday to agree on a sweeping new strategy to rebuild strained relations with the United States, after four years of a divide-and-conquer approach from President Trump. Support our journalism. Subscribe today. From rebuilding the…

– Reuters Africa’s overburdened public health systems, dearth of testing facilities and overcrowded slums had experts predicting a disaster when Covid-19 hit the continent in February. The new coronavirus was already wreaking havoc in wealthy Asian and European nations, and a United Nations agency said…

–Femi Adesina | Special Adviser to the President – Media & Publicity After more than three decades delay, President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday inaugurated the 326 KM Itakpe-Ajaokuta-Warri rail line for commercial operation as well as the ancillary facilities yard, at the recently named Goodluck Jonathan…

–Culled It was a pleasure receiving Rudolf Muller of Penresa, the organization behind Forbes Africa magazine, at State House, Abuja on Tuesday, September 29, 2020. Rudolf came with copies of the exotic edition dedicated to Nigeria at 60. In the publication, President Muhammadu Buhari has…

-Femi Adesina | Special Adviser to the President – Media and Publicity Her Majesty, The Queen of England, has sent a message of felicitation to President Muhammadu Buhari on the occasion of Nigeria’s 60th Independence Anniversary, October 1, 2020. The message, conveyed by the British…

–Agence Ecofin  In Burkina Faso, the first solar panel production plant was inaugurated in the industrial zone of Kossodo. Owned by Faso Energy, it can produce 60 to 100 panels per day with an annual energy production capacity of 80 to 120 MW. In Burkina…

–Agence Ecofin In Chad, the Minister of Energy has announced the establishment of an ad-hoc committee to reduce the electricity deficit which induces load shedding in N’Djaména and in several other cities of the country. This committee will be made up of technicians from the…

–Afrik21 A total of 21,000 rural women living in Casamance in southern Senegal will be trained in income-generating activities (IGAs) using renewable energy. Alleviating the suffering of women by improving their living environment through renewable energy is the goal of this operation led by the…

Louise Boyle | New York We are protecting wildlife at risk from poachers due to the conservation funding crisis caused by Covid-19. Help is desperately needed to support wildlife rangers, local communities and law enforcement personnel to prevent wildlife crime. The coronavirus pandemic is taking…

–Efosa Ojomo | Christensen Institute, USA As researchers at a think tank, we concern ourselves with questions of causality: What causes prosperity to take root, and how can it be engendered in impoverished communities? These are the guiding questions that have driven our Global Prosperity…