ASK her who she is, she’d introduce herself as Michelle Nkamankeng and say: “I am a humble little girl who is an author. I am confident in myself and inspiring young children to follow their dreams.”

It is too early to tell. However, in my view, to the extent that we still have challenges in the currency control in the economy, we may continue to see slow activity in the equity market. To that extent, we may see another uninspiring performance from equities this year and obviously that goes to the fact that there are a lot of listed companies that depend on import for their input.

Chairman, Progressive Shareholders Association of Nigeria, PSAN, Mr. Boniface Okezie The capital market is over regulated in my own view and despite the over regulation we have not seen any impact whatsoever on the investors. The investors are supposed to benefit from the regulation under normal circumstances, but what we are seeing is total neglect.   […]

THE good news is that Nigeria has decided to scale up security at its airports; the not so welcome news is that this translates to Aviation security personnel carrying guns. I would have preferred scaling up security to mean greater use of intelligence services, more sophisticated security machines and more vigilance. As it is, we are already saturated with arms which have not translated into better security; rather, it seems the more arms we introduce, the less security in the country.

STATE governors, yesterday, commended the contributions of the nation’s fallen soldiers to peace and unity, especially during the Nigerian civil war and battle against insurgency.