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 […]
CIA’s prediction, Boko Haram and matters arising
FIVE years ago, the CIA predicted that in about 10 years ,Nigeria would cease to be a united country, or that it might simply become a “failed state.” Back then, many of us dismissed the prediction as conjecture, mere Western opinion. We even went as far as calling it a form of prejudice against Nigeria.
Bringing Nigerian knowledge workforce home (I)
BRING them Home -Nigerian Knowledge Workers (NKW) – Worldwide! For more than 7 decades, they have been lining up for travel and immigrant Visa at the dead of the Night. In their millions, they travel by Air, sea and land through the deadliest Deserts of the world.
Perspectives on the ANIDS model in Anambra (2)
INTERESTINGLY, Government will continue to cater for the schools’ staff salaries, while the Missions will be in charge of general administration.
Subsidy removal: In our best interest
THERE are three levels of high fraud that the removal of subsidy will tackle. The first is fraudulent payment on phoney import of PMS. The product is fraudulently certified as imported into Nigeria but is actually diverted to other countries in West Africa.
Perspectives on the ANIDS model in Anambra
It is a novel initiative; a multi-sectoral model predicated on the internationally-acclaimed Millennium Development Goals [MDGs] of Eradication of Extreme Poverty & Hunger, Gender Equality & Women Empowerment, Reduction of Child Mortality, Boost to Maternal Health, Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other Diseases, Environmental Sustainability and Global Partnership in Development.
