One of the main focus of the management of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) led by Oscar Onyema since assumption of office in 2011 has been to re-package companies quoted on the NSE and make them globally acceptable. To achieve the objective, the Exchange had over the period set certain standards which quoted companies are required to adhere to. It has also organised road-shows to some international markets to show-case Nigerian brands. The quest peaked two weeks ago in the launch of a prestigious listing platform, the Premium Board, writes Nkiruka Nnorom

IT is no more news that Nigeria as a nation state is an accidental creation, given the manner the British did it. It was not a consensus creation as the different ethnic groups that make up the nation were not carried along and this laid the foundation for discord which has affected the nation up till date. There is nothing wrong in bringing people from diverse ethnic groups to form a nation but this can only work when the people agree to the arrangement; we have many examples where forced marriages of this kind have failed, like the old Yugoslavia and the present crisis in Ukraine to mention but a few.

IN seizing power from General Gowon(80),the then Military ruler, General Murtala Ramat Muhammed (1938-76) told the nation on July 30 1975 that: “this Government will not tolerate indiscipline. The Government will not condone abuse of office”. He kept his word.

THE ritual of 100 days in office had acquired spiritual, political, historical and social toga in our democractic dispenasation. It has become a landmark to measure what the future tells and its impact on socio-political progress of any administration. This culture entrenched by Western democracy began when the prefect of Paris in a speech welcoming Napoleon Bonaparte’s return home on March 20, 1815 from exile, made reference to it, and with time elected leaders celebrate 100 days in office.

IT was a mammoth gathering at the Samson Siasia Stadium in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, South South Nigeria, on the 15th of August, 2015. It was a gathering of defecting politicians, crossing over from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Party (APC). The crowd in the stadium that day could not be less than four thousand people, talking of the politicians, their supporters and the usual hired political hoodlums. It was an embarrassing defection to PDP as nearly every leader of the party in the State left to join “the-all-saints” party of APC.

After reading your story titled: ‘EFCC’s Alleged Diversion of Trillions – Lamorde and the Schism in the Senate’, written by Henry Umoru, the Senate Correspondent of your newspaper, published on Sunday, August 30, 2015, particularly the section of the report sub-titled ‘Toyin Saraki’s Saga’, I feel compelled to give you the benefit of the account of what transpired during Mrs Saraki’s visit to the office of the anti-graft agency.

Some call it the Buhari bounce. Others describe it as the Buhari effect. Yet some others say it is the Buhari aura. One thing is however crystal clear. Things have not been the same in the past 100 days in Nigeria, since Muhammadu Buhari assumed the presidency. A new sheriff has truly come to town.

SATURDAY, September 5, 2015, marks 100 days of Sen. Dr. Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa in office as Executive Governor of Delta State. From all indications, Okowa hit the ground running. And this is hardly surprising. Okowa came into office with a clear vision and an action plan encapsulated in his well thought-out S.M.A.R.T agenda that is designed to usher in “Prosperity for all Deltans”.

I AM one of those , who never wished that APC, with President Muhammadu Buhari, PMB, would lead this country. It was not because we supported the ways of the ruling PDP at that time, but because we had our fears, about that change slogan, some of which are now manifesting in PMB’s government.

With the anniversary of his 100 days in office almost here, President Muhammadu Buhari is expectedly drawing critical appraisals from different quarters, the most germane being his overt preference for Northerners in positions that most people see as influential.

IN the height of his very public fallout with then President Jonathan, Gen. Obasanjo wrote in an 18-page open letter that one of his grouse with Jonathan was that the latter had set up himself as the president of only the Ijaws. I wonder how Obasanjo is feeling this morning after Buhari unveiled a kitchen and store-room cabinet of 100% Northern males.

MUCH that has been spewed out about the business man, politician, philanthropist and nationalist, Chief Ifeanyi Patrick Ubah has largely been a case of less sense and more nonsense. Most public commentators have missed the entire forest of information about the man, and have focused fixatedly on the single tree. Often too they misidentified or mis-analyzed that single tree even.

When democracy was established in Athens 2,500 years ago, the credit for this was given to Solon, the law giver; Cleisthenes, the father of Athenian democracy and Pericles. The factors responsible for the rise and growth of Athenian democracy are applicable to Nigeria in the light of the 1993 presidential election annulment that led to social stasis

I SAW it differently. We have been long on this, sometimes, misbegotten journey without any destination in sight from 1999 to 2015, for instance. Our arrivals and departures have always revealed mirages and milestones and other unchartered routes not previously spotted in the electronic trackers of our political voyage. The desired salvation, pardon the religious connotation, is always in the future – in the future that has appeared perpetually impossible to transform into reality.

THE news of the Senators rejection of a cut in their allowances did not come as a surprise to those keen National Assembly observers. When it comes to matters concerning money, our politicians have proved themselves to be the same; their selfish interests comes first, they never yield ground.