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 […]
Edo 2007: Oshiomhole vindicates Osunbor
ONE is constrained to comment on the weighty admission by the Governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole that the late President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, supported his aspiration financially and otherwise pre and post – April 14, 2007.
The West’s Woods-ward walk!
ENOCH Powell argued in his Common Market: Renegotiate or Come Out (1973) that Britain must renegotiate the then European Common Market or pull out. Recently, Britain dared Ghana and Uganda for standing up as humans and defending civilisation against homosexuality and same-sex marriage, the latter coinage only known to this very decadent age since Adam.
Petroleum deregulation: Timely intervention
IT is heart warming that on the matter of deregulation of key sectors of the economy, there are references. A simple case is the telecommunication industry. Today, the country is better for it as every Nigerian now has access to telephony.
Underestimating social and security threats of climate change
Since his inauguration on May 29 this year, President Goodluck Jonathan has kept his election promise of “give me your vote, I will not disappoint you.” Curiously, his keeping the promise does not manifest in the expected delivery of policies with integrity, rather it manifests in not giving Nigerians what could be “globally” adjudged as sound policies and actions.
Yar’Adua and Oshiomhole’s questionable claims
AT the launch of Segun Adeniyi’s Power, Politics and Death, Governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole displayed his penchant for boastful, irrational and incoherent outburst in its most insipid form. It was thus natural to ask: “what is wrong with Oshiomhole?”
