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 out-of-the-box approach to oil Industry reforms
EVEN with the country’s incurable overdependence on oil, the commodity could have served Nigerians better if the proceeds had been better managed over the years to achieve better linkages and funding of national infrastructure.
Who is marginalising the Binis?
SENATOR Edobor Ehigie Uzamere, representing Edo South Senatorial District, struck the right note as he paid tribute to the ex-Biafran warlord, Chief Chukwuemeka Ojukwu. The issues of marginalisation which Ojukwu fought for 40 years ago, he said, are still very much with us.
Four years of direct labour strategy in Akwa Ibom
ON assumption of office as the governor of Akwa Ibom State on May 29, 2007, Chief Godswill Obot Akpabio, who had been a member of the State Executive Council in the preceding administration for about five years, and had visited every nook and cranny of the State while serving as the Commissioner of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, resolved to pursue development of the State with anger.
Re: Out and about with Oshiomhole
THE link between the success or failure of a government, and the quality of its public administration is pretty tenuous. There are those who deny it. An eminent former permanent secretary once said there was no problem in the society, only that the government could not make it worse.
Echoes of Edo PDP guber primaries
THE wound may go, but the scar might remain and might continue to haunt those who inflicted it. That seems to be the true scenario of the aftermath of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship primaries in Edo State that produced Major General Charles Airhiavbere (rtd) as the party’s candidate for the July 14 governorship election in the State against all expectations.
