The bank’s Communications and External Relations Department made this known in a statement on Wednesday.
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The chamber leader in a virtual chat on African post-pandemic recovery, said the Treasury Department must consider programmes of the US State Department to see how helpful to Africa and Washington Adesina has been by his innovative support and stabilisation of Africa through the AfDB.
Rather, APRA is insisting that due process must be followed.
The Chairman of the bureau, Niale Kaba, in a statement said the publications trending in the media on purported directive of stepping down of Adesina was false.
South Africa’s President and African Union chairperson Cyril Ramaphosa and the Nobel peace laureate and former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf have commended Akinwumi Adesina, President of the African Development Bank, for his visionary leadership and bold initiatives to accelerate Africa’s development and to support the continent through the COVID-19 crisis.
The Federal Government says it has applied for $3.5 billion request from International Monetary Fund and African Development Bank to access concessional funding to support the implementation of the 2020 Budget.
The Executive Council of the African Union has supported Dr. Akinwumi Adesina’s candidacy for a second term as President of the African Development Bank.
Adesina made the assertion at the Inspiration Conference 2020 of the Redeemer’s Men Fellowship (Lagos Regions) in Lagos.
The AfDB’s Communication and External Relations Department in a statement on Wednesday quoted Adesina as saying at the London Stock Exchange that “the gap is therefore offering huge opportunities for global investors.”
The AfDB’s Communication and External Relations Department quoted Adesina as saying this on Tuesday at the UK-Africa Investment Summit in London.
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday met behind closed doors with Dr Akinwunmi Adeshina, the President of the African Development Bank at the President Villa, Abuja.
The decision was announced in a communique signed by the commission’s President, Jean-Claude Kassi at the end of the 56th ordinary session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of ECOWAS, held in Abuja.
Adebayo, said this in an opening address at the 11th meeting of the National Council on Industry, Trade and Investment in Uyo on Monday.
Adesina made the call while delivering a lecture at the 13th convocation of Bowen University on Friday in Osun State,
A statement issued by the bank said the approval was given at an extraordinary shareholders’ meeting on Thursday in Abidjan.
President Muhammadu Buhari has nominated Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina for re-election as President of the African Development Bank, the News Agency of Nigeria is reporting.
The Bank was awarded a silver award at advanced standard level following the CIPS Procurement Excellence Programme, for having successfully developed its corporate procurement processes from an operational focus to managerial and strategic, building performance, capability and value.
A statement by AfDB’s Communication and External Relations Department said the bank’s Vice President for Agriculture, Human, and Social Development, Jennifer Blanke said this at a panel discussion at the 7th Tokyo International Conference in Japan.
The meeting, which took place at the Governor’s Office, Ado-Ekiti, was a follow up to an earlier one at the AfDB headquarters in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire last month.
Speaking in Abuja at the 2019 African Investment Forum Roadshow on Tuesday, Fayemi said his administration has commenced steps towards making the State a destination of choice for investors.