SUCCESS is smothered with a galaxy of friends (both true and false) while failure is abandoned as a lonely and desolate orphan. The phones of the former crash due to an inability to process a myriad of incoming calls while that of the latter sooner or later is shrouded in graveyard silence. That unfortunately is the reality and fickleness of man. Both scenarios are so evident in post-election Nigeria.

RECENTLY the Nigerian Export-Import Bank, NEXIM Bank, embarked on a deliberate programme of building partnerships designed to deliver value to its stakeholders and target public as the Nigeria’s sole Government Trade Policy Bank. This development has been applauded by both players and watchers in the Nigerian SMEs, especially those operating in the manufacturing, agro-processing, solid minerals and services sectors.

WHEN Goodluck Jonathan steps down in two days time and Muhammadu Buhari takes over as president, he would have helped to give practical demonstration to that much remarked (in our parts) but hardly realised notion of popular democracy, that sovereignty lies with the people. By handing over power to Buhari, Jonathan would only be abiding by the will of the people who said, on March 28 2015, that they wanted a change of leadership.

RECENTLY the Nigerian Export-Import Bank, NEXIM Bank, embarked on a deliberate programme of building partnerships designed to deliver value to its stakeholders and target public as the Nigeria’s sole Government Trade Policy Bank. This development has been applauded by both players and watchers in the Nigerian SMEs, especially those operating in the manufacturing, agro-processing, solid minerals and services sectors.

Media reports of the purported adoption of Senator Ahmed Lawan from North East as the consensus candidate weeks after the leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC, had zoned the Senate Presidency to the North Central, are worrisome.