Sam Emehelu

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday congratulated the United States’ President-elect, Donald Trump, on his electoral victory in the country’s presidential election. In a four-paragraph statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, the President said he looked forward to working with Trump to strengthen the relationship between the two countries.

The statement read, “On behalf of the Government and people of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari congratulates President-elect, Donald Trump, on his victory in the United States presidential election.

“President Buhari also congratulates American citizens on the outcome of the election, which was keenly observed by all true lovers of democracy and those who believe in the will of the people.

“The President looks forward to working together with President-elect Trump to strengthen the already established friendly relations between both countries, including cooperation on many shared foreign policy priorities, such as the fight against terrorism, peace and security, economic growth, democracy and good governance. “As Mr. Trump prepares to assume the position of the President of the United States, President Buhari extends his good wishes to him on the onerous task of leading the world’s strongest economy.”

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The Forbes Africa Top 25 Listed Companies Special highlights the significant developments of West African markets over the years.

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Better exports have improved our trade balance or account with the rest of the world. The current account deficit narrowed to 5.1 percent of South Africa's GDP in the fourth quarter of last year - compared to 5.8 percent of GDP in the third. Overall the current account deficit for last year narrowned to 5.4 percent which is down from 2014. The deficit parly reflects the extent to which South Africa is importing more than it exports.

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CNBC Africa speaks to Miguel Azevedo, Head, African Investment Banking, Citigroup to give advice on how, and where to invest in Africa with special focus on the economies of Egypt, Ghana, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Nigeria.

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Destination Lagos highlights the investment potential of Nigeria's cosmopolitan state, Lagos. On this episode, CNBC Africa's Didi Akinyelure showcases the challenges and opportunities in the transportation sector.

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Currently underway in Johannesburg is the Africa Energy Indaba that has drawn global experts to unpack both the challenges and the opportunities for energy investment in Africa.

Invest Africa was on the ground and chatted to some of the world leaders in this space. We caught up with Christoph Frei, the Secretary General of the Word Energy Council on the side-lines of the launch of the Council's latest report on Shale Gas opportunities.

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The backward integration policy has played a positive role in the operations of Sub-saharan Africa's leading sugar refinery "Dangote sugar", as the company is set to create 20,000 jobs through its operations in Savannah, Adamawa State and Lau/Tau sites in Nigeria.

This was the brief of the Acting Group Managing Director of the Dangote Sugar Refinery, Engr Abdullahi Sule at the floor of the Nigerian stock exchange, were he led the management team to pay a courtesy visit.

It was also an opportunity for Engr Abdullahi Sule to share more of the financial market impact and strategies ahead for the company to become one of the biggest Sugar industry players in the globe.

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In the last few days, South Africa received two much welcomed reprieves. First on Friday from Standard & Poor's and another from Fitch Ratings, that held South Africa's sovereign investment grade rating. However, first quarter GDP figures from Statistics South Africa painted a worrying picture. The world economy is not faring better either. On this MoneyMakers, Bruce Whitfield discusses how to grow the economy with a man who helped build a company. Founder and Executive Director of Discovery Insure, Themba Baloyi is our guest and a member of the Young Presidents' Organisation.

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One of the world's most ambitious science projects is making good progress in South Africa. The Square Kilometre Array -- or SKA telescope will cover a distance of at least 3-thousand kilometres from its central core. This makes it at least 50 times more sensitive than any other radio telescope. South Africa and Australia are hosting the bulk of the project, but China has committed funding and scientific personnel. CCTV's Travers Andrews has this report.

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The price of a barrel of oil has fallen more than 70% since June 2014 and reverberations are being felt across the globe. Less than a year after the excitement surrounding the historic 2015 election which peacefully transferred power from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC), Africa’s largest economy and the continent’s biggest oil producer is on the brink of an economic crisis. Oil prices have fallen to roughly $33 a barrel – the lowest value since the 1990s – and in a context where oil accounts for 35% of GDP and 75% of the government’s revenue, this has had serious consequences.

President Muhammadu Buhari and his administration are grappling with a widening deficit which is expected to reach $15 billion in 2016, a plunging growth rate of 3% at the end of last year, and dwindling foreign currency reserves. The government is looking to borrow $9 billion from financial institutions, and is trying to keep the value of the naira from depreciating by banning the import of several goods and restricting the supply of foreign currency.

But what deeper structural problems does the currency crisis reveal? Can the clock be turned back on Nigeria’s deindustrialisation and over-dependence on oil? And how do social media campaigns such as #BuyNaijaToGrowTheNaira contribute to economic transformation and sustainable growth? Join award-winning broadcaster Funmi Iyanda and a panel of experts as they explore these questions.

‘How to Fix Nigeria’ is an event series conceived by Funmi Iyanda, award-winning producer and broadcaster at Creation TV and Oya Media, and organised in collaboration with the Royal African Society and the Frontline Club. The series brings together a broad range of speakers to discuss practical solutions to Nigeria’s contemporary challenges – and to definitively explore ‘How to Fix Nigeria’.

The panel:

Professor Charles Soludo is an economist and former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (2004 – 2008). He has served in more than 25 standing or ad-hoc technical and policy committees of the Nigerian government, and has acted as a consultant to 18 international organizations including: World Bank; IMF; OECD; EU; various UN-agencies; UK-DFID; USAID, AU, ECOWAS, IBM consulting, USA, IDRC Canada. Soludo has been a visiting scholar at Oxford, Cambridge, and Warwick (UK) and a visiting professor at Swarthmore College (US). He currently serves as chair or member of boards of several think-tanks; and as a strategic advisor to institutional investors.

Feyi Fawehinmi is a senior investment accountant at Friends Life UK. He qualified as an accountant a decade ago and has since worked in banking, private equity and insurance in the UK’s financial services industry. He has been blogging on politics and economics in Nigeria for the last 8 years and has been featured on Quartz, CNN and Buzzfeed.

Natznet Tesfay is director of Africa analysis, economics and country risk at IHS. She is responsible for data, analysis and forecasts on political violence and the political economy in Sub-Saharan Africa. Her areas of specialisation include analysis of political developments affecting the offshore energy sector in West Africa, particularly Nigeria; commercial developments, especially in mining, energy, and infrastructure in East Africa; and piracy risks in the Gulf of Aden and Gulf of Guinea.

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Atiku: Aching Knee, Painful Stand

Nigerians On Monday (March 12^th, 2007) woke up with the news of the Atiku’s injury and he’s being flown abroad. Ordinarily that is enough to arrest compassion for him and, given his many battles win him more attention from the electorate.

But if Atiku got anything from it, it was that the incident further alienated him from the public. Or what do one say when an opportunity by the VP to identify with the failing health system in the country is thrown away? So how does he want the support of the public he doesn’t relate with? Is this not a case of shying away from the reality on ground? Who then Does atiku want to serve? Londoners?

It’s just a pity himself and the AC ‘egg-heads’ felt he is unsafe in the system they are touting him to serve and perhaps ‘die’ for.

Well we know where those of us who don’t have access to the Presidential Jet and to Cromwell Hospital in London would vote.

It’s the eve of the general elections and we thought some common feeling will come to play. It did, or did it not?

Safe trip and we wish you “soonest recovery”.

As for us our life is in our hands and we won’t gamble with it.

"ObasanjoCracy"

"This election is a do-or-die affair for me and the PDP. This coming election is a matter of life and death" - President Obasanjo

Cut the Cheats, not the Supplies

Every foot by the Nigerian government is turning wrong.

They cut the national oil output yesterday which is as clear as saying that it has ceded the control of the Creeks to the Militants.

We all know that the INEC is not in anyway independent and the countdown to the general election is making that obvious.

Obvious enough to make it very uncomfortable to be on the side of the ruling party, in fact to score a point now, just show enough courage to be on the other side of the line, like the VeePee; Abubakar Atiku and Orji Kalu and any other former thief.

Back to the oil, the overall import is that it is very possible it rubs-off on the general budget projections in volume. But one other nearly predictable is that the domestic scarcity-that the vice president has told was politically motivated, wont fare any better.

Whichever way, control is far from OBJ and his crew at the PDP government. The cutback is meant to be OPEC’s idea but we all know it’s more of the militant’s victory.

Things are falling apart… can they get back in control?

Our answer is in the April polls and by the …. April fools

There is a new page of leadership in sight world over and there is renewed pace by the outgoing ones to etch their names in gold before their time runs out.

The Labour Party in UK has choked Tony Blair enough to agree to step down. And in his words he said he would not be in the office in a year’s time. Gordon Brown is warming up to take over.

In Japan, Shinzo Abe would face a daunting challenge of winning the hearts of the Japanese electorate who seem more now attached to the outgoing Junichiro Koizumi who is also stepping down because of the term limits imposed by his own party constitution.

At the New York office of the UN, Koffi Annan would not be staying longer than December 31st. And in the United States of America the politics to succeed George Bush is hotting up too. Senator John McCain, Senator Hillary Clinton and a few other ‘regulars’ are buying attention with several humanitarian projects like “the theory of curbing the Osamalets”, or “how to save the world’s endangered mosquitoes from extinction” etc.

In Nigeria, the electorate is daily being proved right that president Olusegun Obasanjo needn’t be there at all-he has never won any election in the first place. The race to take over from him is also as fierce as ever.

He has spent his second term trying to dab the wound the PDP riggings inflicted on our national conscience. But no way, he has not been successful and his Public rating has sunk deeper.

The third term trick has failed, public trails of corruption has been more of an anti third term reprisal and of late. The mud slinging between him and Atiku (the VeePee) has left the polity more like a Bolekaja* affair.

But the Nigeria’s president seem to have found a way to make sure his two-term democratic rule does is not erased from the country history. The Defense Industries Corporation of Nigeria (DICON) has been given the go ahead to fabricate local AK-47.

The gun, which is one the presidential measure to ‘check violence’ at next year’s elections will also be nicknamed OBJ006.

It has nothing to do with Hollywood; it was just a way to immortalize the most troubled year of his life. The year that all he stood for in leadership crumbled: including integrity.

Returning to his poultry farm in Otta in 2007 is not negotiable but not without copies of OBJ006 both as souvenir and as companion. We all are watching our back.