The National Housing Fund (NHF) is fundamentally unsustainable and grossly inadequate in the quest to provide housing finance on a sustainable basis in Nigeria.

Stakeholders have disagreed over the continued suspension of public ownership of the Nigeria Stock Exchange.
Stock Exchanges are traditionally privately owned by stock brokers and some individuals and the process of making a stock exchange publicly owned is called Demutualisation.

The incumbent Central Bank Governor, Lamido Sanusi, has stubbornly decided to continue the destructive and suicidal monetary and foreign exchange market policies of his predecessor. In this event, this article, which was first published in 2006, with progressive supplementary comments in this column on 23/3/2009, is today 18/1/2010 reproduced for objective public evaluation!|

Less than one year after take-off, the microfinance interbank money market has collapsed following default by participating microfinance banks.

The incumbent Central Bank Governor, Lamido Sanusi, has stubbornly decided to continue the destructive and suicidal monetary and foreign exchange market policies of his predecessor. In this event, this article, which was first published in 2006, with progressive supplementary comments in this column on 23/3/2009, is today 18/1/2010 reproduced for objective public evaluation!

Stakeholders have disagreed over the continued suspension of public ownership of the Nigeria Stock Exchange.
Stock Exchanges are traditionally privately owned by stock brokers and some individuals and the process of making a stock exchange publicly owned is called Demutualisation.

The Lagos State government has set up a 12_member panel to enhance the process of acquiring land from landowning families, communities and villages for overriding public interest.

Over 12,500 applicants have applied for the 500 housing units constructed by the Katsina State Government along Mani road in Katsina, the state capital, at the cost of N2.5 billion.

Lagos State government has began moves to accommodate traders who were displaced and negatively affected by the ongoing redevelopment of Oshodi

African Alliance Insurance Plc is the oldest Life insurance specialist in the country yet it has weathered the storm through the years and still flourishing at 50 years. The Managing director of the company, Mr Alphonse Okpor in this interview with Patience Saghana relays the challenges and prospects in life insurance business, touches on topical issues such as the industry market agreement, the 2010 guidelines released by NAICOM among others including the driving force behind the company’s success of over five decades.