In June, Commonwealth heads of government will meet in the Rwandan capital Kigali, a city advertised by their Tutsi host, the 63-year-old Paul Kagame, as ‘the Davos of Africa’. Kagame, Rwanda’s de facto leader since 1994 — and boasting more honorary degrees than Barack Obama, although he never finished high school — has become the ‘donor darling’ of the international community. He is why the World Bank has donated in excess of $4 billion, and why, until recently, the biggest bilateral donor has been the UK. ‘As far as I’m concerned,’ says the Tory MP Andrew Mitchell, ‘he is a…

Last Saturday, March 27, 2021 the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) held its stakeholders’ meeting with media executives in Lagos. It has become characteristic of JAMB to hold such meetings since Is-haq Oloyede became its Registrar on August 1, 2016. Last year (2020), however, Covid-19 and the nationwide lockdown truncated the meeting. Usually, JAMB at this meeting with media executives expresses its gratitude “for the various supports, criticism, cautions and suggestions" on all its processes as well as "partnering with us in sanitizing the system”. One good thing about JAMB under the leadership of Oloyede is its openness, transparency,…