Right to attend any general meeting of the company; Every shareholder of a company has the right to attend any general meeting declared by the company, according to CAMA. It does not matter the number of unit of shares the person has in the company. A shareholder has the right to query a company for not receiving notice to attend any general meeting.

THE high sea piracy of the old Western economies, the buccaneer economies typified by American cow boys culture proved to the doubters a fact of life: that the sands heaped by one storm are washed away by another and the wealth stolen by one gang is quickly taken over by another gang and the security of life and property was like the words spoken in the wind.

I bought shares in A B C Company’s IPO in 2009 and up till now, I have not received my share certificate from XYZ Registrar. M N Company declared dividend in 2010, two years after, I am yet to get my dividend warrant, and I don’t understand what is happening. I tried to find out from the Registrar and they said it was the problem of mail service; perhaps it got lost on transit.

Mrs. Achia Dewan is the chairperson of Primus International Super Specialty Hospital in India and Nigeria. She speaks to Victoria Ojeme about the hospital’s plans to begin kidney transplants in Nigeria by establishing a kidney transplant centre in the country. Excerpts:

The Federal Government has announced plans to undertake the restoration of vandalized pipeline sites at Arepo, Ogun State, Diamond Estate, Lagos and other communities where oil spills were recorded either due to activities of vandals or oil exploration.

For years, the oil and gas industry has continued to suffer from pipelines vandalism both in the upstream and downstream operations.

Ndubuisi Njoku, a 45-year old electronics technician at Mende, Maryland, Lagos, was shocked when in November 2012, he was given a bill of N27,000 as his tariff due for electricity consumption for October.

The second principle of profitable investment in shares has to do with the kind of money used for the investment. Last week, we said that the first principle is to invest long term. Now, if you are going into long term investment, you need to use long term money, or safe money, that is money that is yours and which you don’t have need of, for a long time.

Sri Lankan Manilal Fernando, a member of world governing body FIFA’s Executive Committee, has been provisionally suspended from all football-related activities for 90 days, FIFA said on Monday.

Standard Chartered Plc said its total group income has recorded 8 percent growth in its income which is N3.11trillion (US$19.07 billion) in 10 years of its operation.