THE intense scarcity of funds that  gripped the interbank money market last week will persist this week as the Debt Management Office (DMO) issues N100 billion worth of FGN Bond.

StarTimes has already shown their worth in the past seven years, changing a lot in the pay-television market. For example I can still remember in 2010 when StarTimes just launched in Nigeria, if you want to buy a competitor’s decoder you have to pay N27,000. During this period the exchange rate was just about N120 to one dollar. Today, 2017, seven years later, the exchange rate has gone up to N360.

I EXPECT the third quarter (Q3:17) performance of companies quoted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, to be better than the corresponding period in 2016. You know there was economic recession during that period, but Nigeria exited in June this year.

LAPO Microfinance Bank, a subsidiary of the Lift Above Poverty Organisation (LAPO), has disbursed N89.6 billion as loan from January to August 2017 via 447 branches in 29 states and the Federal Capital Territory, ABUJA, as part of effort to grow micro and small businesses in the country.

At the beginning of my tenure, I highlighted my thrust of office and the challenges that were facing us as a professional body. Though it was not a bed of roses, yet the Council recorded some modest feats in the last two years.