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 […]
The desperation against reform
AT a time that our state governors are busy bickering and strategising about statutory allocations, other nations are aggressively harvesting the infinite opportunities that globalisation has created for world economies!
Aregbesola, Okojie, the PDP and UNIOSUN medical students
IT is sheer irresponsibility and gross recklessness to seek to play politics with the lives of our youth and children, for they are the hope and the future of our community. They constitute the pivot for any society willing and aspiring to develop.
Why PIB will enhance bankable petroleum industry transactions
The Petroleum Industry Bill before the National Assembly if passed will address the motley of problems facing the oil and gas industry. This bill which will serve as the grundnorm of the petroleum industry – legal and regulatory framework, among other things, will enhance petroleum development and production.
Ekwueme: Exceptional achievements and courage @ 80
IN the history of Nigeria, not many still remember the heroic efforts of our founding fathers that enabled us attain self-rule. Nevertheless, it remains an incontrovertible historical fact that personages such as the late Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Sir Ahmadu Bello, Chief Obafemi Awolowo and several others made selfless sacrifices for Nigeria to attain nationhood. In simple language, these patriots exhibited exemplary courage in their lifetime for Nigeria to become a nation.
Deepening Democracy in National Interest and for Posterity
Constitution amendment has always been a foremost democratic norm and is predicated upon the fact that no constitution stands the test of eternity, not the least one bequeathed by undemocratic regimes and with less than satisfactory inputs by the wider population of the people it is supposed to serve. It would be recalled, for instance, that the Constitution of the United States of America, one of the world’s most celebrated democracies, has undergone 27 Amendments over time to solidify their federation by taking care of such critical issues as federal relationships, terms of office, stoppage of slavery, Congressional emoluments, civil liberties and freedoms, expansion of the electorate, etc in line with the emerging dynamics of the American society at various times.
