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 *MOTHER OF ALL CVs* *Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala* The citation to end all citations!  Biography of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (as seen on WTO's website) Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is a global finance expert, an economist and international development professional with over 30 years of experience working in Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America and North America. Currently, Dr Okonjo-Iweala is Chair of the Board of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. Since its creation in 2000, Gavi has immunized 760 million children globally and saved thirteen million lives. She sits on the Boards of Standard Chartered PLC and Twitter Inc. She was recently appointed as African Union (AU) Special Envoy to mobilise international financial support for the fight against COVID-19 and WHO Special Envoy for Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator. She is a skilled negotiator and has brokered numerous agreements which have produced win-win outcomes in negotiations. She is regarded as an effective consensus builder and an honest bro...

 By Nnedinso Ogaziechi One of the beauties of global development is the contributions of human ideas to improving lives and developing the needed infrastructure to carry things through. The race to manufacture the most effective vaccines for the global pandemic has occupied the global society since 2020 that the pandemic broke out in Whuhan, China. Progress is being made and slowly but steadily the vaccines are making progress as more people are getting the vaccines in Europe, Asia and Africa. For Africa, it is still a long road to access to vaccines in a world that has been forced to embrace the nationalistic spirit of their charity starting at home. The effort is to first take care of their own people before sending to Africa and other third world countries lacking in both the manufacturing facilities and storage too. What this must reiterate in the developing countries must be the spirit to invest in the human capital as well as the visible and functional infrastructure that aid...

 Nigeria earns over $5 million yearly from shea butter exports.The country, however, is targeting about $100 million yearly earnings from the commodity.There are increasing efforts to achieve this through the commodities exchange, DANIEL ESSIET reports. THERE is an increasing demand for shea butter on the European cosmetics market, the Centre for the Promotion of Imports from developing countries(CBI) has said. The main driver is the demand for natural and organic cosmetics on the European market. It is expected that the demand for shea butter will continue to rise in Europe. Furthermore, the Global Market Insights Inc report said Shea Butter Market revenue is projected to cross $2.9 billion by 2025.The Middle East and African shea butter market is expected to register 10 per cent from 2019 to 2025, driven by rising dependency on African countries for shea butter exports. According to Research andMarkets.com’s report, the global shea butter market value is projected to display a ro...

 Read: AJEKO IYALE AS MY VALENTINE GIFT. Iyale is a community that's deep rooted in tradition before the advent of Islam and Christianity. Even with the gross decline in the cultural and traditional activities, our rich cultural history should not go into extinction. Iyale is an enclave bounded by hills and mountains, worthy of note among the hills are Okekwu hill Ódejó adokputa nédó Adalla hill Ódanwa hill etc In the past, it was easy for evils to penetrate into people, to derail Man's ambition and set him on the crossroads of life. Afflictions of different magnitude befall people from unknown sources. The forefathers were weary of those enemies and thus sort allegiance to hills and rivers as capable objects of protection against evil machinations and wickedness of the land. Feet of the hills mentioned above were deified as deities of miraculous protection and as source of peace. Ajeko is a river in Iyale which was seen by the ancestors as a potent protection against evil and ...

 ANOTHER BIG ONE FROM Niger Delta University TO THE WORLD NDU GRADUATE BREAKS RECORD IN UNITED KINGDOM  By Thursday this week, Joel Eleojo Adams, a graduate of the prestigious Niger Delta University (NDU) will become the first non-British to be commissioned as an Aero-Systems Specialist Engineer, to the rank of a Flying Officer, in the British Royal Air Force.  Dr Joel, who obtained his B. Eng (1st class honors) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, was the valedictorian of his graduation year at the Niger Delta University and also a recipient of the prestigious Presidential Scholarship for Innovation and Development. (PRESSID). After completing a masters degree in Control Systems at the famous Imperial College London, he went further to obtain his PhD in Industrial Systems and Manufacturing Engineering from the prestigious University of Cambridge.  Dr Joel began his career at Ford Motors UK as the BOM Lead Project Analyst for Battery Electric Vehicles. With gre...

 The former Central Bank Governor, and Emir of Kano His Royal Highness Muhammadu Sanusi the second , surprised guests present at the Muson Centre for the launching of the book of Sir Olaniwun Ajayi.  Below is his unedited speech. Let me start by saying that I am Fulani (laughter). My grandfather was an Emir also fulani my uncle and guardian was also the immediate late Emir of Kano Alhaji Ado Bayero and therefore I represent all that has been talked about this afternoon. Sir Ajayi has written a book. And like all Nigerians of his generation, he has written in the language of his generation. My grandfather was a Northerner, I am a Nigerian. The problem with this country is that in 2009, we speak in the language of 1953. Sir Olaniwun can be forgiven for the way he spoke, but I cannot forgive people of my generation speaking in that language. Let us go into this issue because there are so many myths that are being bandied around. Before colonialism, there was nothing like Northern...