By Emma Ujah
The Joint Managing Director of Delta Steel Company Limited, DSC, Ovwian- Aladja Dr. Sam Nwabuokei has said that its privatisation followed due process and warned that moves by interests groups to reverse the privatisation of the company would hurt its workers and the host community, in particular and the nation’s economy in general.

In line with the federal government economic transformation agenda through promotion of maximum utilisation of abundant mineral resources in the country, mining operators under the aegis of Progressive Miners Empowerment Association has said the mining sector would require capital injection of N200 billion to tap the potentials in the sector.

It was obvious from the beginning. Only just that the regulators and operators were not humble enough to accept it, that the framework for microfinance banking in Nigeria is faulty and cannot achieve its objectives. This reality was made the more and undeniably obvious last week by the revealing and moving presentation of Professor Mohammad Yunus, the founder of the first microfinance bank called Grameen Bank.

The need to quickly reposition the Nigerian capital market has been brought to the fore, especially in arresting the persistent declining fortune recorded in the market in the last couple of months.

There are several factors inhibiting the average worker from accessing NHF loans to build, renovate or purchase a house.