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AS the capital market closes the 2019 trading year tomorrow, the two-year negative sentiment on capital raising by quoted companies in the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, has suffered 89.7 percent decline to N34.9 billion 2019 from N340 billion recorded at the end of 2017.
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Governor of Delta, Senator (Dr.) Ifeanyi Okowa, said rendering of selfless service was paramount to every political office holder.
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By Peter Duru The Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Magu has reiterated that the fight against corruption by the commission has no political, social or tribal coloration. He explained that operatives of the commission go after suspected corrupt individuals after a preliminary investigation had been carried out by the anti-graft
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IT was a big relief to all democratic forces in Africa when the Ethiopian military putsch of Saturday, June 22, was crushed by the government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. It all began ominously enough with the assassination of Amhara regional president, Ambachew Mekonnen, whilst at a security meeting with key officials in the city of Bahir Dar. Almost simultaneously, in Addis Ababa, the Chief of the General Staff, Se’are Mekonnen, was gunned down by his own orderly. The alleged mastermind, Brigadier-General Asamnew Tsige, had apparently intended to instigate simultaneous attacks on prominent political and military leaders across the country so as to bring down the government.
Read MoreFormer Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Hon Femi Bamisile, has identified reasons why many perceived political heavyweights failed in Saturday’s National Assembly election.
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The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has, Friday, corrected the notion in some quarters that being in possession of Specimen ballot papers before election is not legal.
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IN August, shortly after defecting from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the All Progressives Congress, APC, former governor and current senator, Godswill Akpabio, was reported as declaring that the takeover of Akwa Ibom State by his new party would be like Hitler’s 1940 invasion of Poland. “Warsaw saw war and war saw Warsaw”, Akpabio said, at the funeral service of his grand mother-in-law at Aguebu-Owa, in Ezeagu Local Government Area of Enugu State. “We can’t talk politics in the church; but in 2019, Warsaw shall see war and war shall see Warsaw. The return will be victory. May God grant us victory”.
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Capital market operators that spoke to Money Digest about the state of the Nigerian stock market have lamented that the activities of politicians is affecting the economy and is also taking a toll on the capital market which is regarded as the mirror of the economy.
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I’VE spent the past few weeks in Nigeria, doing a lot of informal opinion-polling, as in randomly sounding all sorts of people out about their political views, their fears and their hopes for the future.
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Nigeria’s leading political actors were all about in the outgoing week projecting themselves and seemingly rewriting history. It was, however, a different matter for the majority of the apolitical class.
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