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 […]
Everything in Life is Impermanent
Different events in life follow one another. The termination of one event ushers in the beginning of another – a phase off and a phase in, a point of ascension and a point of descent, a cause and effect pattern, a point of departure and a point of termination in every cosmological and ontological process. Your waking up in the morning terminates your all night sleep/rest and ushers in daybreak of activity in your life.
Still on VAT increase and matters arising
That the recent announcement of the proposed increase in the Value Added Tax rate from five per cent to seven-and-half per cent is generating ripples and knocks is not unexpected. The concern of those opposed to the increase, including this writer, does not only border on the rate of the increase (which is 50 per cent), but also on the justification given by the government for its proposal.
World Pharmacists Day 2019: Safe and effective medicines for all
Lawal Fadekemi September 25 is a day set aside to annually highlight the value of the pharmaceutical profession to stakeholders globally. This day was set aside in 2009 by The International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), adopted at the World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences the same year. The year’s theme, “Safe and effective medicine for […]
Open Letter to President Muhammadu Buhari
By Innocent Alikali MR PRESIDENT, THESE FRUITS ARE LOW-HANGING, PLEASE PLUCK FOR US Your Excellency, I rejoice with you on your return for a second term as President, Federal Republic of Nigeria. Like many compatriots, this joy is laden with very high expectations. The worsening conditions of Nigerians in the last four years calls for […]
E.K. Clark: When politics pollutes religion
THE signs of contradiction have become evident: the envy, the suspicion, primordial sentiments and rumours, mostly unfounded. Myths without facts passed on and attributed to the highly revered Chief Edwin K. Clark. While an enlightened mind sees opportunities in the midst of limitations, the myopic is entrapped in delusions of blame games in order smear successful family members for personal frustrations. Men like Clark within their family face challenges, grumblings over favour done and undone; but ingratitude often reside with gratitude, and it’s what makes society. If leaders in history, religion and social sphere, face similar challenges, Clark cannot be an exception. Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jnr., Nelson Mandela, among others, also had to contend with challenges of mistrust, blackmail, suspicion, ingratitude, envy from their families as a result of their public success.
