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 […]
For Alex Otti, The answer is the people
IT does not take the pronouncement of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for anybody to know that it is for Dr Alex Otti, the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) governorship candidate in the 2015 general elections in Abia State, to lose.
Pa J. O. S. Ayomike – an iroko @ 88
You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Whoever planted an Iroko tree – the greatest in the forest? You may collect all the Iroko seeds in the world, open the soil and put them there. It will be in vain. The great tree chooses where to grow and we find it there. So it is with the greatness of men — Prof. Chinua Achebe
Adamawa’s clear options
THE choices between the people of Adamawa state in the April 11 gubernatorial election are as clear as they are extremes. The contest which in reality is between four contenders, is at the same time a two-way game between what is right and its opposite. The four frontline candidates are Mohammed Jibrilla Bindow of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Dr. Ahmed Mohammed Modibbo of the Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM), Engr. Marcus Gundiri of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and, of course, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). To any fair mind, the ideal choice, from the roll call above, is very clear.
2015 presidential polls: Goodluck the real winner
PRIOR to the rescheduling of the Presidential and National Assembly polls to the 28th of March, there was palpable fear, mistrust and general feeling of insecurity by Nigerians culminating to the relocation of other ethnic groups from their hitherto place of residence ahead of the elections
What is happening to the world?
SUNNY, what is happening to the world? That was the question my big brother Barrister Ballantyrne Ugege, of Faith chambers, Warri, threw at me as we sat reflecting on global issues generally. Thomas Hobbes’ life in the state of nature is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short” but with the advancement of the human mind capabilities and interaction of people from diverse cultures, coupled with the influence of positive religion, the brutishness of man has been tampered. The whole world has become a global village and the concern of one has become the concern for all. The establishment of the United Nations organization immediately after the bitterly fought Second World War ensured that the arrangement was formalized and documented. No individual or nation can, on its own flout UN rules and regulations at will; at least that is the assumption. The world was happy and full of expectations but barely a century after, it is as if things have gone hay wire. Human lives have become worthless; killings and destructions everywhere. Nothing, no matter the value is too precious to be destroyed; man, material, edifices, all.
