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otokx:
Why did he not use the world class East West road he built?

SenseiX:
NIGERIA’S Akinwumi Adesina was Thursday elected new president of the African Development Bank  (AfDB) in a thrilling vote that saw major heavyweights from North Africa and southern Africa were stripped away early in the opening rounds.

The dapper bow-tie wearing Agriculture and Rural Development minister will be a popular choice with the Africanist policy community, but will also provide a major boost for Nigeria’s flagging geopolitical ambitions, with a new president set to be sworn-in on May 29.

He has widely heralded innovations in hugely improving his country’s often-precarious food security position, but was not as steeped in finance as some of his rivals, the majority of who were all serving or former finance ministers. 

He however had arguably the most impressive academic credentials.

The vote

Three candidates had been left in the nerve-wracking race to head the 50-year-old bank. 

Adesina, Cape Verde’s Cristina Duarte and Kordje Bedoumra of Chad were the only contestants still standing by early evening on Thursday, as AfDB governors sought a successor to Donald Kaberuka, who will have served the maximum two terms.

A winning candidate needs at least 50.01% of both the regional and non-regional votes. The latter are members who are not from Africa and wield 40% of the vote. They include the US, China, Japan and a raft of European countries and were brought in in 1982 to help boost the capital base of the bank which was at the time starved of cash. 

Nigeria has the highest voting power of the bank’s members, ahead of the United States.

Sierra Leone’s Foreign Affairs minister Samura Kamara, who as finance minister led his country’s reconstruction effort, was the first to fall in the opening round, though few eyebrows would have been raised at his early exit, given his region had propped up three other stronger candidates.

But the identity of the next candidate to be eliminated was more surprising, as Ethiopia’s Sufian Ahmed tumbled out. His country’s finance and economic development minister, he had been one of the heavy-hitters expected to at least make the final rounds of voting.

Mali’s Birama Side lasted longer than forecast by analysts, becoming the third candidate to be knocked out. 

Tunisia’s Jaloul Ayed was next, as North Africa lost a chance to head the bank for a third time. 

The bank’s sixth president, Omar Kabbaj, is credited with instituting reforms that set the bank on its current path, while Kaberuka cemented its place as the continent’s premier development financier. 

Zimbabwe’s Thomas Sakala, a former AfDB insider, tumbled out next. He had come in on the backing of southern Africa, but his bid run into headwinds when it was revealed that he had been a benefit of “primaries” which is perceived to be against bank rules.

Good Nigerian spell

Nigerians might be forgiven for thinking the country is enjoying a brilliant spell, after president-elect Muhammadu Buhari became one of only a handful of African opposition leaders to defeat an incumbent comprehensively, but perhaps one of the proudest moments was the grace with which Goodluck Jonathan accepted defeat.

Nigeria’s outgoing Finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala immediately tweeted’ “Great news! Nigeria’s Akin Adesina has won the AfDB presidency after our strong campaign! Great campaign! Great candidate!”

Beyond Adesina’s victory, his triumph signalling a significant change in continental power politics. Until recently, it was the custom that the big and richer nations kept the smaller countries happy by ceding the leadership of continental bodies to them.

The first major break from that came in 2012 when Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma was elected chairperson of the African Union Commission. South Africa is the richest country on the continent, and Nigeria its largest economy and most populous nation.

It might seem, like with the World Bank and IMF, the big boys and girls in Africa, have also finally taken over the stage by combining back-office clout with executive power.

All attention now shifts to Adesina. In early March he gave an insight into his likely agenda, telling news agency AFP in late March that he wanted to “finish off the white elephants”, in a reference to useless luxury projects that are often financed using international aid and built by foreign businessmen, and which reek of corruption.

He called for “intelligent infrastructure that is more productive, more competitive”. He also urged more cooperation across borders, pitching ideas such as an “African Google”, a transnational electricity market, and a regional stock exchange. The AfDB might just have got its first digital president.
http://m.mgafrica.com/article/2015-05-28-nigerias-akinwumi-comes-out-tops-in-thrilling-continental-battle-for-afdb-presidency#.VWdmaTjTXHw
Cc lalasticlala

searay:
Sickled

drizzydrag:
Lol! Next article go be... Nigeria President-elect GMB is missing

omenka:
Don't know her but I pray her soul finds rest wherever she ends up, amen.

HugoEagles15:
Let me comment my reserve

himkers:
[size=14pt]Who said they re coming to grace buhari's inauguration?? They re only coming to bid the greatest and peaceful loving politician on the African continent (GEJ) farewell for time well spent and his spirit of sportsmanship.

Btw, how we started dosent matter, it's how well we end that matters (even d world leaders knows this)[/size]

ebubey:
Superstition is the belief in supernatural
causality that one event causes another
without any natural process linking the two
events.

Here is a list of 10 superstitions chosen based
on how ridiculous, widespread and comical
they are:

1. Hitting your left leg on a stone is seen as
an evil omen or warning to turn back from
where ever the person might be going. This
omen is taken seriously and the journey is
usually forfeited for the future. Failure to
heed the warning could lead to possibly loss
of life.

2. Don’t drink the water from a coconut else
you automatically become an olodo.

3. It is not a good idea to whistle at night.
There is this belief that such whistling
attracts snakes to the whistler.

4. Don’t allow people to crossover your hand
or leg,else you will give birth to a child with
one hand or leg.

5. Owls hooting on a rooftop or on a nearby
tree is a bad omen as it is believed that
someone in that house will soon die.

6. If your hands are itching without reason, it
is believed that some kind of fortune is about
to come your way.

7.Eating in the dark is forbidden. It is believed
that such act could give room to the dead to
eat with you and this could lead to your death
or grave ailments.

8. If you spit on the floor and someone
steps on it you will have sore throat.

9. Don’t bend over and look through your legs
in public, you may see witches.

10. Hitting a man with a broom would make
him impotent. It is believed that if a man is
hit with a broom he becomes impotent until
he retaliates by hitting the person back with and
broom seven times.

comos:
Buhari should concentrate on delivering his promise to Nigerian.
Going after those big-men is a waste of time, b/cos they will fight back till his tenure comes to an end.

comos:
Buhari should concentrate on delivering his promise to Nigerian.
Going after those big-men is a waste of time, b/cos they will fight back till his tenure comes to an end.

Bonapart:
I don't care what you think about wat am gonna say... but i so much thank God for making to come out of a Christian home...
I thank God for making me a Christian...
I thank God for not being a northerner..
Those people value their cows more than than life of a human... mind you am talking from experience.
Those people carries the mind of animals.




No wonder they become boko haram

coolhamid:
SLS takes the Emir of a thing so serious...
This guy should be managing our finance in this country and not sitting on a Throne in kano ..
He is an asset


I believe he would be Useful as a Finance Minister than being an Emir of Kano.

Am dedicating this space to my wife who is in NYSC camp presently...
I miss her no be small and the three weeks camp be like three years for my eyes...



Coolhamid

natureblack:
If the people of this religion (Islam) are asked about the proof of the soundness of their religion,they flare up,get angry and spill the blood of whoever confronts them with this question.They forbid rational speculation,and strive to kill their adversaries.This is why truth became thoroughly silenced and concealed.

Islam is conceived in a barbarous brain for the use of a barbarous people,it was - and it remains - incapable of adapting itself to civilization.Wherever it has dominated,it has broken the impulse towards progress and checked the evolution of society.

The Qur'an calls for belief and consequent obedience.It is,surely,calculated to inspire fear,indeed abject terror,rather than love.

......to read the Qur'an is penance rather than pleasure.

Xbee007:
Jum'at Mubarak to all Muslims! God bless Fudma! God bless Nigeria!

wachakuta:
Guy I support u, make I add My own to join
Kwankwaso my Hero

Trailblazer1:
While people from the North and Southwest are busy singing the praises of Amaechi calling him a lion who defeated jonathan, those that still love the truth know that Amaechi has no political value both in Rivers State and in the Southsouth, stemming from the fact that he only contributed a meagre 28,000 votes to Buhari's victory while losing a whopping 1.4million votes to GEJ even after 8years in power as a governor.
Worst still, he is so much hated by his own people for using their common wealth to sponsor the ambition of a northerner against their son.
No matter the federal appointment that will be given to Amaechi, he remains the worst loser as charity as the say begins at home.
After frustrating the smooth transition of power to his successor Wike, I'm sure Amaechi does not plan to step into Rivers state for the next 8years.

The name Amaechi has become a curse to his people.

kodded:
#BabaOneChance












Yo Wahh !

OREMUSSANCTUS:
I talk am
Let d sharia cum islamization of naija begin
Say no to "change"
We nid transformation
I pray and hope we won't regret voting out transformation

lalasticlala:
http://thenationonlineng.net/new/drama-as-jonathan-marks-5th-anniversary-as-president/

OREMUSSANCTUS:
I love transformation I hate "change" Quote me to blast me and ya will never make it in life Fayose remains a role model for all nigerian youths

Lala247:
His wife looks abit older Nice pic sha

Iamoilprince:
I knew this was going to happen, exactly wat i saw in my drm few months ago.

This one is STRONG

rhajaan:
Chief Imaam of National Mosque Abuja is dead.
The Chief Imam Of Abuja National Mosque, Ustaz Muhammad Musa, is dead. He died this evening at the National Hospital in ABUJA. Details later
May Allaah forgive his shortcomings, aameen.
Janazah is at 10am tommorrow at the National
Mosque if you can attend.

Source:http://www.abujafacts.ng/breaking-the-chief-imam-of-abuja-national-mosque-is-dead/

CC lalasticlala

chimkaire:
mbok, where is that? Btw, is light uninterrupted there? I may have to terminate my tenancy

ishiamu:
Before you impeach this man you will impeach God first

Equalizer:
Fayose is the most peaceful man in Nigeria.. I so much like his gentle nature... Sir, you are indeed our role model.. I mean all of us here on NL...

Equalizer:
Fayose is the most peaceful man in Nigeria.. I so much like his gentle nature... Sir, you are indeed our role model.. I mean all of us here on NL...

moscobabs:
I beg they should come and close down churches in my street at agbelekale around abule egba o. 16,churches in a street of 31 buildings ? This is ocrazy

starlingslimnet:
OK APC Nice One Chance

starlingslimnet:
APC One Chance