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University of Mkar Interrogates IMF, World Bank and the Value of the Naira

Posted By: adminon: January 27, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: IMF, Politics of Money, University of Mkar, Value of Naira, World BankNo CommentsViews:
University of Mkar Interrogates IMF, World Bank and the Value of the Naira

Although it is run by an academically established Vice-Chancellor, (Prof Zacharys Gundu, ex-ABU, Zaria Archeologist), the University of Mkar, near Gboko in Benue State in central Nigeria is... Read more

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The Bridge That Can Tell the Future

Posted By: adminon: August 22, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, CHINA, IMF, Xinhua, ZambiaNo CommentsViews:
The Bridge That Can Tell the Future

The cover picture is from Chinese News Agency, Xinhua, featuring President Hakainde Hichilema of Zambia in Southern Africa (third from right). He was on tour of the Kafue Bulk Water Supply P... Read more

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Thomas Sankara (December 12th, 1949 – October 15th, 1987)

Posted By: adminon: October 21, 2021In: GovernanceTags: 'Aidocrats', Blaise Compraore, IMF, Upper Volta, World BankNo CommentsViews:
Thomas Sankara (December 12th, 1949 – October 15th, 1987)

It was 34 years last Thursday, (October 15th, 2021) that Thomas Sankara was killed as Military Head of State of Burkina Fasso. In this piece, the author takes another look at it all. By Abdu... Read more

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The Covid Crisis is Doing What the 2008 Crash Didn’t: Ending the Old Economic Orthodoxies

Posted By: adminon: April 09, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: IMF, Kristalina Georgieva, Larry Summers, Milton Friedman, US Federal Rederve, Washington Consensus, World BankNo CommentsViews:
The Covid Crisis is Doing What the 2008 Crash Didn’t: Ending the Old Economic Orthodoxies

This is not a controversy but a conversation between two economists although those who can carefully read between or behind the lines can see each’s main hint. The first economist is Larry E... Read more

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Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria On the Rebound?

Posted By: adminon: April 08, 2021In: BookspaceTags: 'Accumulation by Dispossession', 'Third World', David Harvey, IMF, World BankNo CommentsViews:
Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria On the Rebound?

Is it possible that the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria might be on the rebound to pacesetter role in agenda setting mandate of knowledge? This is what some observers are thinking in the ligh... Read more

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Ahead of the Commonwealth in Rwanda, The Economist Asks If President Paul Kagame is a Good or Bad Leader

Posted By: adminon: March 28, 2021In: FlashbackTags: Donors, DRC, Ethiopia, Génocidaire, Hotel Rwanda, IMF, Laurent Kabila, Meles Zenawi, Mobutu Sese Seko, Rwanda National Congress, Rwandan Patriotic Front, SOAS, World Bank, Yoweri Museveni of UgandaNo CommentsViews:
Ahead of the Commonwealth in Rwanda, The Economist Asks If President Paul Kagame is a Good or Bad Leader

It is an old debate that has come back with the death of Tanzanian president, John Magufuli. That is the debate on which of democracy and development should come before the other. The master... Read more

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Again, the ‘Giant of Africa’ is Missing From the Club of 2024 Global Heavies

Posted By: adminon: February 10, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: GDP, IMF, Population, ProductivityNo CommentsViews:
Again, the ‘Giant of Africa’ is Missing From the Club of 2024 Global Heavies

One African, Nigerian eye in fact, took a look at this graphic from the IMF and asked: No Shift in Africa? Or the Africa shift does not matter? He says that while China and India shifts are... Read more

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China Is the World’s Largest Economy At Last and Why That Matters

Posted By: adminon: October 16, 2020In: World From AfricaTags: CIA, Dollar, IMF, R & D, World Economic Outlook, YuanNo CommentsViews:
China Is the World's Largest Economy At Last and Why That Matters

All students of power are bound to love the last sentence of this piece where the author says “Diverging economic growth will embolden an ever more assertive geopolitical player on the world... Read more

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Stop Approving Further Requests for Loans by the Executive – CISLAC Tells NASS

Posted By: adminon: July 28, 2020In: GovernanceTags: FEC, FIRS, IMF, NDDC, NEDC, NEITI, NNPC, NSITFNo CommentsViews:
Stop Approving Further Requests for Loans by the Executive – CISLAC Tells NASS

A call has gone out to the leadership of the National Assembly in Nigeria to restrain itself from further approval of borrowing by the Executive arm. Rather, it should mandate that arm to re... Read more

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World Economic Forum Sets Ball Rolling on Overcoming Global Crisis, Proposes ‘The Great Reset’

Posted By: adminon: June 04, 2020In: World From AfricaTags: Climate Change, ESG, European Commission, IMF, Stakeholder capitalism, Telemedicine, The Great ResetNo CommentsViews:
World Economic Forum Sets Ball Rolling on Overcoming Global Crisis, Proposes 'The Great Reset'

The battle of ideas on what to do next to pull the world out of public health and socio-economic crisis has begun, with the World Economic Forum, (WEF) framing it as a matter of what it call... Read more

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