ADF and WEF, in a release, said, “With great excitement and anticipation, ADF and WEF announce this year’s cohort
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The WEF estimates the time it will take to close the global gender gap has increased by around 36 years since the last report a year ago – from 99.5 to 135.6 years.
The beneficiaries are among 112 persons under 40 years of age, selected as Young Global Leaders by WEF, from across 56 countries.
This year, as the WEF marks its 50th anniversary, participants would address the prospects for trade and global economic growth.
President Muhammadu Buhari will depart Abuja on Thursday for Amman to honour an invitation by King Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein of Jordan to participate in the World Economic Forum.
The Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, Oscar Onyema, has called on African businesses to embrace higher governance standards to facilitate the inflow of funds needed to position the continent to leverage gains of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Obi, who represented the presidential candidate of the party and former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, at the two separate meetings told the EU delegation that efforts should be made to stop the ruling party, All Primary Congress, from intimidating candidates of opposition political parties who, he said, now live in fear.