Nigeria, South Africa, Algeria and Ethiopia to form G4 Nations. The idea was reportedly conceived at the past EU-AU Summit at Brussels, Belgium. The leaders of the four nations, who met at the summit, used the opportunity to discuss crisis areas on the continent. The President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, and his colleagues stressed the […]
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The sixth summit of European Union and African union kicks off today at Brussels. The summit is expected to run for two days, 17-18 February, 2022. It has been five years after the last one was held in 2017 in Abidjan, and eight years after the last summit in Brussels in 2014. The summit motto is […]
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Mixed reactions as the Nigerian government lifts Twitter ban
Ruth Torty 14th January 2022 0 COMMENTSAfter 222 days, the Nigerian government finally lifts the ban on Twitter. The action which took place by the midnight of January 13, 2022 elicited mixed reactions from Nigerians. Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, the Director-general of Nigeria’s technology agency, the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), made the announcement via a statement. He was earlier appointed […]
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Register to Attend the Anaedo Online Lecture featuring Wole Soyinka, Peter Obi, Kingsley Moghalu, Maria Ude, Innocent Chukwuma and Nonso Okafor
Ides Ofune 11th August 2020 0 COMMENTSThe Anaedo Online Anniversary lecture was instituted by Fresh Minds Communications Ltd, the parent company of Anaedoonline, chaired by Cornel Osigwe who was recently listed among the top 10 under 40 CEOs in Nigeria, by Vanguard. The lecture was set up for the purpose of looking at some of the core and major problematic issues […]
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Ebuka Onyekwelu, Anchor of the 2020 Anaedoonline Lecture Shares More Insights on the Upcoming Event
Ides Ofune 6th August 2020 0 COMMENTSEbuka Onyekwelu is the anchor of the upcoming Anaedo Online 2nd Year Anniversary Lecture themed “The Place of Youth in Politics and Economy”. This year’s lecture boasts of an array of accomplished professionals, businessmen and politicians. Ebuka is a 32 year old Nigerian, columnist, blogger and a good governance advocate. He is a graduate of […]
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Can we really afford not to be interested in Politics? Watch how to encourage politics in the family
Ides Ofune 4th November 2019 0 COMMENTSOne thing I find very interesting is political discussions. Now, I know some people may say politics is divisive and don’t like talking about it. In Nigeria, we say politics is too dirty. But politics is everything! Politics is what determines the kind of education available to your children, the type of jobs you work […]
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Ides Ofune: Leadership Lessons I learned from reading Lee Kuan Yew’s From Third World to First
Ides Ofune 13th July 2019 0 COMMENTSOne of my Lecturers recommended Lee Kuan Yew’s Book “From Third World to First.“ It’s a very big book of about 700 pages. It took me a whole month to finish it which usually is a long time for me. I get bored easily reading lengthy books so I try as much as possible to […]
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African governments urged to move with speed to address over-dependence on imported medicines
admin 2nd July 2019 0 COMMENTSThe two-day Horn of Africa trade forum ended Friday in Addis Ababa with participants agreeing that with the African Continental Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) now in force, it was time for the continent to increase domestic production of pharmaceutical products and end over dependence on imported medicines. The AfCFTA, they agreed, provides an opportunity for economies […]
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In Nigeria the campaign promise is a complete contrast from what the elected personnel works achieve. The inconsistent is abysmal. This author has no intention of criticising a particular administration in Nigeria but asking for a holistic view of the Nigerian state in the light of the issue discussed thus far.
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When Diarra (now aged 23) became pregnant, she asked her head teacher – Yaye Kandia – to help her stay in school. This was met by a wave of negative reactions from the community. Diarra, from Senegal, was initially pressured to marry the father of her child and forget about her education. Through persistence and hard […]
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