The most convoluted and perhaps most abused phrases in our financial and banking circles today are “Stress Test” and “Risk Assessment.”

OF all the elections so far held in Nigeria this year, the reported fraudulent and criminal activities that characterised polling in Ika North of Delta State are shameful and disgusting. Dr. Godwin Awvioro, a lecturer in Anatomy at Delta State University, was the returning officer there. He refused to announce fabricated election results, even at gunpoint. He later surfaced at the Police Headquarters in Asaba, the Delta State capital to cancel the results of the fraudulent elections.

I MUST necessarily start by congratulating Goodluck Jonathan for listening to me on the matter of Ibori’s London trial. In “Any Deal between Jonathan, Ibori-Uduaghan” recently published by various media organs home and abroad I opened that topic this way: “We all love Goodluck Jonathan, and yours sincerely has arguably done more pro-GEJ articles (published home and abroad) than anybody since Atiku emptied his political campaigns of sanity.

JOHN Campbell, former American Ambassador to Nigeria has alleged that the presidential election was rigged in favour of President Goodluck Jonathan. His evidence for this serious allegation is the submission of the Civil Society Election

EVERY generation has its heroes and patriots”, says American songster, Paul Simon. As well as its demons and villains, may I add? Indeed every time we successfully transit from one regime to another, a number of individuals pop up as the architects of its success or failure.

The much-touted efforts by the Lagos State Government at making the waterways safe for transportation might come to nought if the prevailing cold war between some private boat operators and officials of the Lagos State Waterways Authority, LASWA, is not nipped in the bud.

Thatcher’s radical policies, successfully adapted across the US, Europe and large parts of Asia, sparked off a new world order and confirmed the evolution of global economic powerhouses.

“We are growing. Whoever believed that Nigerians would move from party-based politics to personality-based politics? Parties without ideologies. I am highly impressed and really grateful to God for this paradigm shift,” said Ify as the commuter bus moved slowly in the early morning traffic.

In a bid to boost home ownership in Nigeria, stakeholders in the housing sector are seeking ways of boosting accessibility to mortgage finance through a variety of funding alternatives.

Dr Dave Obiora is the Managing Director of Khemsafe Computers and Communications Limited, an information and communications technology outfit based in Kaduna.

After series of screening of candidates from the 41-member states of the African Union that make up Africa Reinsurance Corporation (Africa Re) and the subsequent interviews of those shortlisted by the corporation’s governing board, Nigeria’s Ken Aghoghovbia emerged as the newly appointed Deputy Managing Director/Chief Operating Officer of Africa Re.

President Goodluck Jonathan has affirmed the commitment of his administration to the development of mass housing for Nigerians in a way that will ensure that the sector contributes not less than 20 percent to the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

A former employee of AIICO Insurance Company, Johnson Oke, was on Thursday arraigned for allegedly defrauding the company of N1. 2 million. Oke, 39, is also standing trial for allegedly using forged documents- in the name of his former employer- to transact business with its customers.

The Ogun State Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has chided Governor Gbenga Daniel over his alleged plans to illegally skew the outcome of tomorrow’s election, calling on the security agencies to be on the alert to stop his antics.

The Nigeria Football Federation has assured that it is fully prepared for the two big international matches it is hosting in Nigeria this weekend.