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Ojobo, Former NCC Spokesman, Others Make 2020 List of 100 Most Reputable Africans
Reputation Poll International, a leading global reputation-management firm, has released the 2020 list of 100 Most Reputable Africans.
The list features 47 women and 53 men from diverse sectors including; Leadership, Entertainment, Advocacy, Education and Business.
The selection Criteria are: Integrity, Visibility and Impact.
Very prominent personalities featured in the list include: Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed; Nigeria’s Dr. Paul Enenche, South Africa’s Prof. Wiseman L. Nkuhlu, Chancellor of the University of Pretoria and Chairman of Rothschild (SA); Guinean Economist Cellou Dalein Diallo, and Cameroon’s Dr. Vera Songwe, Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.
On Governance: the list features 2 African Presidents, one Vice President and policy makers.
On Business: South Africa’s Dr. Precious Moloi-Motsepe, Ethiopia’s Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu and Nigeria’s Folorunso Alakija are featured for their works across the Globe.
On Leadership: Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, Sierra Leone’s Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE, Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo Iweala and Ghana’s former Vice Chancellor of University of Cape Coast, Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang
The above luminaries are joined by other great Africans who are celebrated for their Social Impact, as well as Social Entrepreneurship, that are transforming businesses in Africa and affecting lives positively without controversy.
Reputation Poll, known globally for its annual ranking of the 100 Most Reputable People on Earth and Most Reputable CEOs in various countries, is also poised to announce a new set of research on 100 Most Reputable Charity Organizations on earth.
2020 Most Reputable Africans – 2
During the announcement of the list by the incoming African Chairperson of the Review and Audit Committee/Member of the Board, Ms. Beldina Auma, Chair Emeritus, World Bank Group-IMF African Society and President of SCIP-International, LLC, made mention of the Organizations’ continued focus and commitment in honouring individuals, organizations and brands that consistently impact lives positively around the world and in Africa.
It is important to note that the ranking is in alphabetical order.
- Abdessattar Ben Moussa || President, Tunisian Human Rights League
- Abiy Ahmed || Prime Minister, Ethiopia
- Acha Leke || Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company
- Achille Mbembe || Political Scientist
- Adama Gorou (Adams) || Human Potential Catalyst
- Agnes Kalibata || President, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa
- Akinwumi Adesina Dr. || President, African Development Bank
- Amadou Diaw || Founder, Forum de Saint Louis
- Amadou Gallo || Managing Director NBA Africa
- Amadou Mahtar Ba || Executive Chairman, AllAfrica Global Media Inc.
- Amani Abou-Zeid || Commissioner, African Union Commission
- Amina C. Mohamed || Cabinet Secretary, Kenya
- Angélique Kidjo || Musician
- Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka || Member of Parliament, Tanzania
- Anne Makinda || Politician
- Anthony Navo Jnr || Founder, African Young Voices
- Arikana Chihombori Quao.Dr || Educator, Policy Leader
- Asha-Rose Migiro || Diplomat
- Ashish Thakkar || Founder Mara Group
- Basetsana “Bassie” Kumalo || Businesswoman.
- Belay Begashaw || DG, The Sustainable Development Goals Center for Africa
- Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu || Entrepreneur
- Bineta Diop || Founder, Femmes Africa Solidarité Senegal
- Carlos Lopes || Economist
- Caster Semenya || Olympic Athlete
- Catherine Adoyo Prof. || Professor, George Washington University
- Cellou Dalien Diallo || Economist and Politician
- Collen Mashawana || Philanthropist
- Denis Mukwege || Founder, Panzi Hospital
- Divine Ndhlukula || Managing Director, SECURICO
- Donald Kaberuka || Board Chair, Global Fund
- Edith Brou || Digital Entrepreneur
- Ellinah Wamukoya (Bishop) || Clergy
- Elsie S. Kanza || Head of Africa, World Economic Forum
- Emma Inamutila Theofelus || Deputy Minister, Namibia
- Enenche Paul Dr || Senior Pastor, Dunamis Int’l Gospel Centre
- Fadumo Dayib || Politician
- Fatou Bensouda || Prosecutor, ICC
- Félix Tshisekedi || President, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Femi Otedola || Chair, Forte Oil PLC
- Folorunso Alakija || Businesswoman and philanthropist
- Francis Arinze (Cardinal) || Cardinal, Roman Catholic Church
- Fred Swaniker || Founder, African Leadership Academy, Ghana
- Georges Rebelo Chikoti || Diplomat
- Hafez Ghanem || Vice President, World Bank
- Hajer Sharief || Co-Founder, Together we build it, Libya
- Hamadoun Touré || Executive Director, SMART Africa
- Hanna Tetteh || Head, United Nations Office to the African Union
- Ibrahim Hassane Mayaki || CEO, NEPAD
- Ilwad Elman || Director, Elman Peace and Human Rights Center
- Isatou Alwar Graham || Lawyer and writer
- Ishaq Usman Bello (Justice) || Chief Judge FCT Abuja
- Jackie Chimhanzi. Dr || CEO, African Leadership Institute
- James Alix Michel || Former President of Seychelles
- Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang (Prof) || Former Vice Chancellor, University of Cape Coast
- Jelani Aliyu || Automotive Designer, General Motors
- Jewel C. Howard Taylor.H.E || Vice President, Liberia
- Johannes Gawaxab || Governor, Bank of Namibia
- José Eduardo Agualusa || Journalist and writer
- Kabirou Mbodje || Founder, Wari Group
- Ken Kwaku .Dr || International Investment & Corporate Governance Expert
- Kumi Naidoo || Secretary-General Amnesty International
- Kwesi Botchwey Prof. || Former Minister of Finance Ghana and Professor,
- Lamin Momodou Manneh || Lead, Regional Hub UNDP Africa
- Leymah Gbowee || Founder, Gbowee Peace Foundation
- Louise Mushikiwabo || Secretary-General, Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie
- Lwazi Bam || CEO, Deloitte Africa
- Macsuzy Mondon || Minister, Seychelles
- Major Seynabou Diouf || Police United Nation
- Manasseh Azure Awuni || Journalist
- Margaret Blick Kigozi Prof || Consultant, UNIDO
- Maria do Carmo Silveira || Former Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe’s
- Mariéme Jamme || Founder, iamtheCODE
- Matshidiso Moeti .Dr || Regional Director for Africa, World Health Organization (WHO)
- Mensa Otabil || Theologian
- Mia Couto || Biologist and writer
- Michelle Ndiaye || Director, Institute for Peace and Security Studies
- Mohamed El Kettani || CEO Attijariwafa Bank
- Mohamed ElBaradei || Law scholar and diplomat who served as Vice-President of Egypt
- Mutahi Kagwe || Cabinet Secretary for Health, Republic of Kenya
- Ngozi Okonjoi-Iweala. Dr || Board Chair, Gazi, Nigeria
- Nhlamu Dlomu || Global Head of People, KPMG
- Nobuhle Judith Dlamini Nxasana Dr. || Businesswoman and Author
- Patrick Awuah || Founder, Ashesi University
- Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba || Director, Kenya School of Law
- Paul Kagame H.E || President Rwanda
- Peter Tabichi || Teacher
- Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka || Executive Director, UN Women
- Precious Moloi-Motsepe Dr. || Entrepreneur
- Shamila Batohi || Director, National Prosecuting Authority
- Sheila Tlou || Co-Chair, Global HIV Prevention Coalition
- Tony Ojobo .Dr || Public policy expert
- Vera Songwe. Dr || UN Under Secretary General and Executive Director of UNECA,
- Vincent Rague || Co-founder of Catalyst Principal Partners,
- Wided Bouchamaoui || Co-Founder, Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet,
- Winnie Byanyima || Director UNAIDS,
- Wiseman L. Nkuhlu Prof || Chancellor, University of Pretoria
- Wycliffe A. Oparanya || Politician
- Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE || Mayor, Freetown, Sierra Leone
- Zweli Mkhize Dr. || Minister, South Africa
Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offenses Commission (ICPC), has revealed that none of the Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs), in the country complied fully with ethical standards, policies, and anti-corruption measures in the passing year.
This was following the findings from the Commission’s Ethics and Integrity Compliance Scorecard (EICS) for the MDAs.
The Commission warned that henceforth, non-compliant MDAs will face necessary actions, including enforcement, to ensure adherence to government directives.
According to the EICS scorecard released on Thursday in Abuja by Demola Bakare, ICPC spokesperson, no MDA out of 330 MDAs that were assessed through physical deployment by ICPC teams achieved full compliance.
The EICS serves as a preventive tool used to assess and enhance the compliance of MDAs with ethical standards, policies, and anti-corruption measures.
Findings from the report indicated that no MDA achieved full compliance, while 29.55 per cent of MDAs captured attained substantial compliance, and 51.62 per cent had partial compliance.
The report also observed that 15.91 per cent showed poor compliance, while 292 per cent were non-compliant.
According to the report, common gaps included a lack of whistle-blower policies, strategic plans, and effective stock verification units, adding that many MDAs failed to conduct any forms of system studies or render financial and audit reports.
Commenting on the report, Bakare noted: “This year, 2024, the tool covered 323 responsive MDAs, with 15 MDAs non-responsive and categorised as high corruption risk.
“It is imperative to inform you that this initiative has yielded some positive and value-driven impacts, and these are, but not limited to, increased awareness and compliance with anti-corruption measures, enhanced competition among MDAs to meet criteria, and improved procurement processes and data reliability.
“The Commission recognises the MDAs with substantial compliance and will continue deploying these tools to promote integrity and accountability.
“Non-compliant MDAs will face necessary actions, including enforcement, to ensure adherence to government directives. We are certain that these efforts will continue to underline ICPC’s dedication to enhancing good governance and preventing corruption.”
Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals (DPRP) has dismissed claims that the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) used a $1 billion loan secured through a crude forward sale agreement to support the refinery during a liquidity crisis.
In a statement on Wednesday, Anthony Chiejina, company’s chief branding and communications officer, said the NNPCL’s stance was a distortion of the facts.
“We would like to clarify that this is a misrepresentation of the situation as $1bn is just about 5% of the investment that went into building the Dangote Refinery,” Chiejina said.
Chiejina stated that the refinery’s decision to enter into a partnership with the NNPCL was based on the recognition of “their strategic position in the industry as the largest offtaker of Nigerian crude” and at the time, the sole supplier of petrol into Nigeria.
“We agreed on the sale of a 20% stake at a value of $2.76 billion. Of this, we agreed that they will only pay $1 billion while the balance will be recovered over a period of 5 years through deductions on crude oil that they supply to us and from dividends due to them,” Chiejina said.
“If we were struggling with liquidity challenges we wouldn’t have given them such generous payment terms. As at 2021 when the agreement was signed, the refinery was at the pre-commission stage.”
According to the statement, the agreement would have been cash-based rather than credit-driven if the refinery struggled with liquidity issues.
The refinery’s spokesman said the NNPCL was subsequently unable to supply the agreed 300,000 barrels a day of crude (bpd).
He stated that the shortfall was because the NNPPC “had committed a greater part of their crude cargoes to financiers with the expectation of higher production which they were unable to achieve”.
“We subsequently gave them a 12-month period for them to pay cash for the balance of their equity given their inability to supply the agreed crude oil volume,” he said.
“NNPCL failed to meet this deadline which expired on June 30th 2024. As a result, their equity share was revised down to 7.24%. These events have been widely reported by both parties,” he said.
9mobile has apologized for the recent service outages experienced by its valued customers which has affected their ability to provide voice, data, internet services. “We understand the frustration these disruptions have caused and deeply regret the inconvenience.
“Our technical team has identified the root causes of the outages including a fire incident at our Main Data Centre in Lagos last night which severely impacted services especially in the Lagos and South-West. We are grateful for the swift intervention of the Lagos State Fire Service, which helped prevent further damage.
“Prior to the fire incident, our network experienced major fibre interruptions leading to varying degrees of outages. We had a fibre cut on the backbone links in Lagos which led to a total data outage across the country.
“This was followed closely by two vandalism incidents in Lagos and Abuja, leading to total service outage in South-West and data service outage in the North. Services have now been fully restored in the North & South-South States while restorations work is ongoing in others. We expect to fully restore services as soon as possible”
At 9mobile, customer satisfaction is remains top priority. “We value the trust you place in us and appreciate your patience and understanding during this challenging time. Customers who continue to experience issues can reach out to our customer service team via our social media touchpoints or our experience centres”.
Once again, we sincerely apologize for the disruption and thank you for your continued support.
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