Can Nigeria build new millionaires through Dangote IPO?
By MOSHOOD OSHUNFUREWA Nigeria has a long, painful, and largely unreported history with shares. The promise of ownership has repeatedly been used to separate ordinary citizens from their savings, and the consequences have rarely been visited upon those responsible. Between 2007 and 2009, an estimated N800 billion was funnelled into private placements that promised future […]
Delta 2023 and DSP Omo-Agege: My submission
By Victor Chikogu HAVING worked with some political party leaders in Delta State, I concluded by saying that most of them, regrettably, are not worthy of such services I rendered selflessly before I left Nigeria for the United States of America. Since then, I have not failed to follow political trends in Nigeria, especially in […]
BRECAN: More than creating awareness about breast cancer
By Maxwell Adeyemi Adeleye Listening to the survival story of Mrs Elizabeth Akande, a native of Owo, Ondo State, on how the husband abandoned her on realising that she had breast cancer and how Breast Cancer Association of Nigeria (BRECAN) provided moral and financial support for her to fight and defeat the disease, no one […]
We attended to over 200 rape survivors — Omejalile, activist
By Funmi Ajumobi Mr. Ebenezer M. Omejalile, Co-founder, Advocates for Children and Vulnerable Persons Network (ACVPN), says his group attended to 200 rape survivors in two years. Let’s look at the penalty for rape The penalty for rape is life imprisonment in Lagos State according to Criminal Code Section 137. Is the position of the […]
George Floyd and the ‘shitholeness’ of the United States
By Eddington Obaro Jonathan What exactly did Donald Trump mean when, in a bipartisan session with a group of American senators in the White House, he said that he did not want immigrants from “shithole countries”? So coarse was his comment that some American newspapers kept the quote out of the bold print while some […]
Cost of re-opening schools in the pandemic II
By Asawo Ibifuro In the first part of this series, Cost of Re-opening Schools in the Pandemic, I tried to make Nigerians understand the true cost of re-opening our schools in the face of the pandemic. It will not be out of place if we try to put some figures in Naira and Kobo to […]
