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 […]
NYSC: Serving with dignity
RECENTLY, the Director General of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Brigadier-General Nnamdi Okore-Affia announced a new posting policy for the scheme. Under the new policy, corps members would be posted to four key areas: Agriculture, education, rural health and rural infrastructure.
A case of two students of governance from Abia
EZE and Okoro were two sons of Abia State who went to Abia University to study governance for eight years. First to secure admission was Eze and because his people have suffered so much as a result of bad governance, expectation was high that he would better the lots of his people by doing well in the university.
NCC and the politics of the 2012 budget
DURING the last nationwide strike that lasted from January 9 to 16 over the removal of subsidy on petrol and the consequent increase in the pump price of petrol initially from N65 a litre to N141 (before it was reduced to N97) by the government, social media played more than a passing role in mobilizing Nigerians and in creating awareness on what the issues were.
Is 13% to Niger Delta cause of Northern underdevelopment? (2)
VIRTUALLY all private owned media houses, both print and electronic, with national coverage are owned by Southerners.The Guardian,Vanguard,ThisDay,Independent Daily, Ait, Channels, Silverbird television stations, to mention but a few, are owned by people from Niger Delta, particularly Delta and Edo states that were hitherto part of South West Nigeria under Awolowo’s exemplary leadership.
Azazi or Jonathan? Modibbo Kawu got it wrong
THREE weeks ago I was at a meeting in Accra, Ghana, in preparation for the biennial African Feminist Forum, which is convened by the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF), an Africa-wide grant-making foundation for African women which I co-founded twelve years ago.
