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 Christian name
For centuries the practice of naming one’s child after a saint was almost second nature. Typically, Catholics named their child after the saint on whose day he was born.
Derivation and the future of Nigeria
IT has recently become the obsession of the Northern Governors Forum to canvass the reinstatement of the Onshore/Offshore Dichotomy.
Between N5,000 note and improved standard of living
THE Central Bank of Nigeria is the institution in charge of the nation’s monetary and fiscal policies with enorm ous constitutional power to drive the economy.
Between Aig-Imoukhuede report and finance minister
President Goodluck Jonathan had, in the wake of the House of Representatives report on subsidy payments, which revealed that some N2.6trilion had been paid out by government to oil importers and marketers, demonstrated his commitment to cleaning up the subsidy payment list by setting up a Presidential Verification Panel (VAP) headed by Aigboje Aig-Imokhuede , banker and Chief executive of Access Bank Plc.
The Uniabuja Crisis: Is the end near?
Observing the decadence and crises that have bedevilled the University of Abuja recently, the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, NUC, Prof. Julius Okojie said: “We are going to clean Abuja it is the flag ship of this nation. When people fly into Abuja and they want to go to the University, I am always shy to take them there, it will happen in another two years we will get to that place, that is the issue of Abuja.”
