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PROFILE | Safiyya Daba: Nigerian amateur photographer who won Agenda 2063 Photojournalism Award
Safiyya Daba, a Nigerian amateur photographer cum techie, was one of the winners at the recently held Agenda 2063 Africa Photojournalism Awards, an initiative of African Women in Media (AWiM), in collaboration with African Union and German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ/GmbH) By Adam Alqali When Safiyya…
Read More »PROFILE | Emma Theofelus: Twenty-three-year-old Namibian activist turned Africa`s youngest minister
The appointment of twenty-three-year-old Emma Theofelus as Member of Parliament and deputy minister for Information and Communications Technology in the Republic of Namibia made her the country’s youngest MP cum Africa’s youngest minister. On March 23, Emma Theofelus, the 23-year-old Namibian lawyer and social justice activist, was appointed…
Read More »PROFILE | Wamkele Mene: The young South African diplomat to drive AfCFTA’s implementation
After seven rounds of voting characterized by intense diplomatic battle, at the last AU Summit, South Africa’s Wamkele Mene emerged the first-ever Secretary-General of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) secretariat, to be headquartered in Accra, Ghana Forty-two-year-old Wamkele Mene is a top trade diplomat, who until…
Read More »INTERVIEW | My climate action campaign has just begun – Adenike Oladosu
“Today, in a site where deforestation has taken place for my 26 week of #FridayForFuture To draw my leader’s [leaders’] attention to this issues. You are not too old to standup for our planet-earth, you can still make a difference because our earth needs you while you are alive,” tweeted…
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OGP: How Nigeria Became a Global Model for Beneficial Ownership Transparency
Nigeria has emerged as a global model in beneficial ownership transparency—especially among developing and …
