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Can Nigeria build new millionaires through Dangote IPO?

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 […]
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What the Igbos want in Nigeria (3)

What the Igbos want in Nigeria (3)

By Obasi Igwe
THE second group is some Igbo politicians, social climbers, sundry careerists, former corrupt officials, and known or concealed agents of various anti-Igbo parties. These people have bought into the concept of restructuring, even though they initially seemed uncertain what it meant. What they claim the Igbos want is a reorganised polity, of which the Igbos would have to be in the “East,” the Yorubas in the West, the Southern minorities in the South-South, and the North with their own three zones.

Why the Vice President would refuse to sit on the President’s seat ..

Why the Vice President would refuse to sit on the President’s seat ..

This is about Stephen Nyitse, the young man who on the day of the coronation of the new Tor Tiv managed to beat security and went straight to where the king’s coronation seat, stool, throne had been placed and sat on it. We are told this caused a stir, and not a few in the crowd must have shouted: “abomination!”, Even the President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, Benue branch, Bishop Mike Angou considered Nyitse’s action sacrilegious.

Where is Nigeria’s Paul Revere (2)

Where is Nigeria’s Paul Revere (2)

The anti-climax of the Acting President’s admonition of Christians was for him to have openly blamed the victims, rather than the perpetrators

FGN Savings Bond: Promoting Savings Culture

FGN Savings Bond: Promoting Savings Culture

It is very much unlikely that there is an adult person, man or woman, who has never borrowed money at one time or the other. It could be from an individual such as parents, brother or sister, friends or from a lending institution.