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 […]
Nigeria’s democracy: Institution founded on anti-Nigerian ideology
MY belief has always been … that wherever in this land any individual’s constitutional rights are being unjustly denied, it is the obligation of the Federal Government—at point of bayonet if necessary—to restore that individual’s constitutional rights (Ronald Reagan, 1983).
Towards a more effective United Nations
IRAN and North Korea are always in the news. If one is not being accused of building atomic bombs the other is being lambasted for developing intercontinental ballistic missiles.
That Anyaoku’s proposition about Edo governance
FORMER Secretary General of the Commonwealth, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, who chaired the ceremony of the Champion Newspapers 2011 Man of the Year Award, held recently in Lagos, is a man of gravitas and impact. He is an orator par excellence.
Anambra ahead of 2014
IN two years time, the office of the Governor of Anambra State will be vacant. By then Governor Peter Obi, now in his second term in office, would have spent eight years. A rare opportunity others before him never had.
EDO 2012: A leader’s last but lost political battle
To the average Edo man and woman, the July 14 gubernatorial election is neither that of the Peoples Democratic Party nor Action Congress of Nigeria, but that of Comrade Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole versus Chief Tony Anenih. To the average person also, this is the last political outing of the Uromi Chief who had enjoyed three decades of uninterrupted political sojourn.
