The Director General, Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, Ms. Arunma Oteh, who was a guest speaker at the recently concluded annual lecture of Women in Business in Lagos spoke on a lot of issues affecting the Nigerian capital market as well as issues affecting women’s investment in the capital market.

The report by Oyetunji Abioye, also said that “SEC investigated the lender after do Rego [the Group Executive Director of Finance and Risk] told the SEC in August that Tanoh and former Chairman, Kolapo Lawson planned to sell assets below market value. Do Rego said she was pressured to write off debts owed by a business headed by Lawson and manipulate the bank’s results. Tanoh and Lawson have denied any wrongdoing,”

The Director General of the Nigerian Meteorological Agency , NIMET, Dr. Anthony Anuforom has said that no single Nigeria airport had wind shear alert system by 2006. The DG made this revelation while speaking with aviation reporters.

Nigerian players in their European clubs Godfrey Oboabona: The former Sunshine Stars captain keeps his shirt at Rizespor as he was on from start to finish in his side played goalless draw at home to Eskisehirspor. However, he was booked in the second half.

Warri Wolves’ bid to win the CAF Confederations Cup yesterday suffered a big jolt when they were held to a barren draw by visiting Tunisian side, CA Bizertin at the Warri Township stadium.

Last Friday, I was in Calabar for the Unveiling of the Mascot, Logo, Theme Song and Web site of the 19th National Sports Festival rechristened the “Centenary Games” This event was significant in many ways. For one it was the official kick off of the Games and keen watchers were quick to assume and rightly too that its delivery could be a signpost of what the actual Games will be.

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When some of us were in secondary school, a grade one WAEC certificate will make you unacceptable for employment in a Nigerian bank and most companies in Nigeria. The thinking then was that with grade one, the holder will in a matter of one year gain admission into the university. There was no need to waste resources training him.

This column has consistently maintained that the root cause of our economic paradox of increasing income, with unbridled unemployment rate, and deepening poverty will be found in the conscious and incorrect adoption of a faulty process for the infusion of our crude export dollar revenue into the economy.

Families of police victims of the security situation in the country, particularly in the North, have not really felt the impact of loss of loved ones because insurance have been responsive to their plight.

For now, it is still a whimper, not a bang. But the octave is beginning to rise. Nigerians are gradually, so it seems, coming to the realisation that politics of ethnicity and religion has done us more harm than good, and should be put away in the cooler.