Stakeholders in the pension industry, particularly the regulators and operators have been exploring various strategies towards enhancing public awareness about the enormous benefits derivable from the country’s nascent pension regime enunciated in the Pension Reform Act of 2004. In this interview, Chief Executive Officer of Stanbic IBTC Pension Managers, Dr. Demola Sogunle, addresses some of the recurrent issues in pension and retirement planning in Nigeria.

“In modern Japan the good of the nation [is] more important than the good of the class. A poor talented and diligent boy had a chance to rise as high as he could…modern Japan was perhaps the world’s most efficient distillation system, in which remarkably little was wasted..a vital part of it was the education system: it supplied the nation with the right number of workers, the right number of engineers, and the right number of managers for every need of a modern society, but, also important, it brought to the poorest homes the sense that there were better possibilities for the children “, David Halberstam, in THE RECKONING, p 277.

Gbolahan Okuneye was in two finals, but it was Sheikh Amda who stole the limelight at the end of the day. The occasion was the 2nd Arco Petrochemicals Table Tennis Championship held at the Table Tennis section of Ikoyi Club 1938.

FOLLOWING incessant sabotage on crude oil lines by suspected oil thieves, the country’s crude oil production has dropped by 25,000 barrels per day after Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, said it shut, weekend, its Imo River Trunkline Eastern operations

The words ‘youth’ and ‘restiveness’ have become so commonly used together in the last couple of years that it seems to have taken on a life of its own. In the last decade and more there has been a proliferation of cases all over the country and indeed the world, of youth agitations which have tons of people dead and valuable infrastructure as well as personal properties lost and destroyed.