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Mauritania’s Sidi Ould Tah succeeds...

Mauritania’s Sidi Ould Tah succeeds Adesina as...

Adesina, Onanuga and the matter...

Adesina, Onanuga and the matter of being...

Mauritania’s Sidi Ould Tah succeeds Adesina as AfDB president

Mauritania’s Sidi Ould Tah succeeds Adesina as AfDB president Mauritania’s former economy minister Sidi Ould Tah was on Thursday elected to succeed Nigeria’s Akinwumi Adesina as president of the African Development Bank (AfDB) and tackle the withdrawal of US financing from the institution. In 2015, Adesina took six rounds of voting to become Africa’s “super banker”, but Tah, 60, secured the prestigious post in only three, winning 76.18 per cent of votes. Zambian economist Samuel Munzele Maimbo trailed well behind in second at 20.26 per cent, with Senegal’s Amadou Hott third at...
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Mauritania’s Sidi Ould...

Mauritania’s Sidi Ould Tah succeeds Adesina as AfDB president Mauritania’s former economy minister Sidi Ould Tah was on Thursday elected to succeed Nigeria’s Akinwumi Adesina...
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Adesina, Onanuga and...

Adesina, Onanuga and the matter of being better off, by Azu Ishiekwene The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Akinwunmi Adesina, ruffled presidential feathers...
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Africa

IIIBF Alumni congratulates...

PRESS RELEASE The National President of the Alumni Association, International Institute of Islamic banking and finance, Bayero University, Kano – Nigeria, Mr Ahmad Suleiman Gimba,...
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Africa

AfDB: Adesina sworn...

Akinwumi Ayodeji Adesina, former Minister of Agriculture in Nigeria who was elected in May 2015, has been sworn in as the president of the...
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Africa

African Development Bank:...

Nigeria’s Akinwumi Adesina has been re-elected as the President of the African Development Bank President for a second five-year term. The election took place electronically...
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Africa

Obasanjo writes to...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, has written to 13 former African Heads of State, asking them to support the embattled President of the African Development...
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