Investors Forum: Be familiar with the regulators
Profitable investment in shares also requires knowledge of the organisations that regulate investment in shares. These organisations set the rules that must be followed by investors and operators, and also ensure that the rules are observed through monitoring and enforcement. They also punish anybody found to have disobeyed any of these rules.
Hamzat identifies challenges to roads construction in Lagos
THE Lagos State Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Mr. Kadri Hamzat has identified some of the challenges militating against the development of roads infrastructure in the state.
Alamieyeseigha’s pardon: An unnecessary outrage
A DEAFENING din rent the air on Tuesday March 12, 2013 when President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan granted unconditional pardon to former Bayelsan governor Diepreye Alamieyeseigha and others.
Among the others are Gen. Oladipo Diya, a former Chief of General Staff, the late Gen. Shehu Musa Yar’Adua, the late Gen Abudukareem Adisa, Gen. Tajudeen Olanrewaju, Major Fadipe, Major Bello Magaji and Alh Mustapha Bulama, the Former Managing Director of the Bank of the North and Alh Mohammed Lima Biu.
Two years after, families of murdered corps members want justice
Two years ago, 10 corps members were brutally killed while undergoing the mandatory one year National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, scheme in Bauchi State. The tragic incident was a fallout of the crises that attended the April 17, 2011 presidential election, with the massacre of the innocent spreading to other Northern states such as Kano, Gombe and Kaduna, leaving the nation shell-shocked, with most Nigerians responding with torrents of condemnation and calling on the Federal Government to ensure that the perpetrators of the dastardly act were speedily brought to book.
From empire to country: Framework for security planning in Nigeria (2)
NIGERIA is waking up to the fact that elections are not about constitutional administration of government but are indeed contestation for power. The formation of the All Progressive Congress (APC) is informed by this understanding. This realignment only polarizes the contestation for power and fails to address the need to de-fuse electoral politics to owing to the fateful fusion of the two politics, the electoral and state formation politics. The increasing call for a Conference may perhaps reflect what is now seen as untenable structure of power and authority in Nigeria, and a need to do something about it in the present condition of large-scale endemic insecurities.
Terror in the land: The road not travelled
IN the heat of the Niger Delta violence, many Nigerians engaged in what former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair accurately identified as “glorification of terrorism” following the 7 July 2007 Underground bombings in London. One of the oft repeated lines then was that the Nigerian government must not be seen as fighting its citizens. I said, good; don’t fight the Niger Delta militants, but go after the oil thieves, those engaged in pipeline vandalism and illegal bunkering. I warned that it would be a tragic mistake if we didn’t separate all the strands of criminality in the region so as to know the real agitators for economic and environmental rights of the people.
