Adesina Akinwumi

African Development BankOn 27 March the AfDB issued $3bn of bonds to shore up the region's economies in what AfDB President Akinwumi Adesina said was the biggest social bond to date...

Another supporter is Akinwumi Adesina head of the AfDB who has a close rapport with Congo-K's new leader...

In May AfDB President Akinwumi Adesina made major new AfDB commitments on a visit to Oyo which is represented in Parliament by Sassou's son Denis Christel 'Kiki' while expressing his 'great confidence in [the president's] leadership and the excellent work and efforts of the government'...

The proposed General Capital Increase which has been on the Bank's wishlist for several years has become a defining issue for AfDB President Akinwumi Adesina with insiders seeing it as an informal referendum on his leadership (AC Vol 58 No 12 Bow ties flashing smiles and the big sell)...

The African Development Bank under President Akinwumi Adesina has added its weight on the issue...

Master of ceremonies was the AfDB's ever upbeat President Akinwumi Adesina whose team clearly picked the right host city this year...

Akinwumi Adesina President of the African Development Bank and a Nigerian former Agriculture Minister has promised a budgetary support loan of $1 bn...

This gloomy prognosis dominated talk in the background of the AfDB meeting so some delegates expected a hard-hitting response from the Bank's new President Nigeria's former Agriculture Minister Akinwumi Adesina (AC Vol 56 No 12 A double first for Nigeria)...

• Agriculture and Rural Development: Audu Innocent Ogbeh; a veteran politician (once Chairman of the previously governing People's Democratic Party) rather than a technocrat he will rely heavily on the structures and procedures established by his predecessor Akinwumi Adesina now African Development Bank President...

Bow-tied and beaming Akinwumi Adesina seemed to sum up the spirit of Nigeria's revival...