Mr. Tunde Mabogunje is the General Manager, Sales and Marketing, Dangote Pasta Limited, a subsidiary of Dangote Group. He speaks, in this interview, on his company’s production capacity and what the Federal Government can do to revamp the manufacturing sector.

Alhaji Rasheed Ola Yussuff, the chairman of the Association of Stockbroking Houses of Nigeria (ASHON) and chief executive officer of Trust Yields Securities Limited, in this interview, speaks on the need to instil market discipline to restore investors confidence in the stock market, stressing that the prospect of the market experiencing significant recovery in 2010 largely depends on the ability to introduce corrective measures.

The Federal Government should simplify the methodology for the disbursement of N21.5billion export grant, recently approved for immediate release, to ensure that beneficiaries get sufficient funds to inject into the non-oil export sector of the economy.

It was never expected to get to this point. But it has. When on the morning of Monday, November 23, 2009,
President Umaru Yar’Adua was flown out of Nigeria for medical attention in Saudi Arabia, his handlers in the
presidency envisaged a problem. Sunday Vanguard confirmed from a senator of the 2003-2007 set that indeed,
there was a letter already prepared and signed by President Yar’Adua on transfer of power.

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