By JKNewsMedia A SHARPER focus on African-led solutions is set to dominate this year’s Africa Social Impact Summit (ASIS), as organisers prepare for its third edition holding July 10–11 in Lagos. At a high-level press briefing hosted at the United Nations House in Abuja, co-conveners Sterling One Foundation and the United Nations in Nigeria h...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent PROJECTING A strong voice for Africa’s energy future, Nigeria’s Power Minister, Adebayo Adelabu has advanced the country’s strategic energy agenda at the 2025 Africa Energy Forum in Cape Town, South Africa. Through high-level discussions, closed-door negotiations and ministeri...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Reporter THE AFRICAN Development Bank’s (AfDB) President, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, has been re-elected with unanimous shareholder support—an historic 100% vote that affirmed a decade of leadership widely credited with reshaping Africa’s development financing landscape. First elected in 2015 and reappointed in 20...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Reporter MILLIONS ACROSS Africa continue to live without reliable electricity, described as a pressing challenge that the Africa Heads of State Energy Summit in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, seeks to address. The event, scheduled for January 27-28, 2025, will convene African leaders, development partners, private...