High interest rates drive up investments in Mutual Funds
monetary policy reform and increased participation of Nigerians in the diversification of their income stream have boosted investment in the Mutual Funds with the Net Asset Value, NAV, rising by 40.2% in the seven months ended July 2023.
N5,000 note? We are done for!
These people are at it again!” Tony exclaimed as he sighted the headline on a national daily last week talking about the Central Bank of Nigeria introducing N5,000 note.
Lagos traffic laws and Okada riders
My God!!” exclaimed John as passers-by watched as an Okada rider knocked down a pedestrian at the Berger Yard Bus stop on the Mile-Two – Apapa Wharf road Monday evening. The Okada rider was definitely in the wrong because not only was he going on a one-way traffic (going from Apapa to Mile-Two on the lane meant for vehicles going from Mile-Two to Apapa), he was on high speed, as if the devil himself was after him.
Medal-less Nigeria!!
“Kai! I weep for my beloved nation. Is it not too shameful that the giant of Africa, with a population of over 150 million people, could not win a single medal at the just-concluded Olympic Games in London?” asked Emma this Sunday morning as the bus inched its way through traffic along Airport Road, Lagos.
Can anything good happen here?
Traffic was unusually light this Monday morning along the perpetually busy Apapa-Oshodi Expressway.
Cell phone wahala
“But I thought the police had been removed from our roads?” asked John, a commuter in the Oshodi-bound bus which a policeman flagged down and asked the driver to get down.
