DANGOTE FIGHTS BACK

Businessman extra ordinaire, Alhaji Aliko Dangote has engaged his lawyers to sue some media houses for maligning his name and putting him in bad light before the public.
 
Dangote’s determination to hit at these media houses under the soft sell genre is because he believes that the tilt of the story over his recent face-off with [...]

CHEVRON CORPORATION BACKS OUT OF SALE OF CHEVRON NIGERIA TO DANTATA

When on 19 September, 2008 the media relations unit of Chevron Corporation USA circulated a press announcing that its subsidiary, Chevron Africa Holdings Limited had agree to sell Chevron Nigeria Holding to Corlay Global SA, the press release carried a caveat in compliance with the Cautionary Statement Relevant to Forward-Looking Information for the Purpose of [...]

SENATE CAPITAL MARKET COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN, GANIYU SOLOMON, CARPETS SEC, NSE AND CBN FOR LACK OF COORDINATION

Chairman of the Senate Committee on Capital Market, Senator Ganiyu Solomon has no soothing description for the nation’s capital and money markets regulatory authorities. In an interview monitored on AIT, Senator Solomon said the Securities and Exchange Commission have been at cross purpose with each directing and dispensing policies that are parallel to each other.

 
Senator [...]

CHURCHES, MOSQUES, NGOs TO START PAYING TAXES FROM NEXT YEAR

The tax exemption status of religion based organizations and non government organisations are to be reviewed to align with international standards. This, according to a source in the Presidency, is to appropriately integrate otherwise tax exempt organizations into the taxable entities mainstream so as to drive the new impetus to fund the growth of the [...]

THEY SAY ADENUGA’S WISH TO SIGN OFF ETB SUFFERS SET BACK

Perhaps some ETB staff that were in the know of the negotiation of the acquisition of the bank by FirstBank were excited at the prospect of changing boss from the authority of Otunba (Dr.) Mike Adenuga to the structured management of FirstBank. Feelers from the bank owned by Adenuga indicated that some staff members were [...]

Obama will be a good president

Away from our beleaguered stock market and the yet roiling global financial markets. At least, a little bit of sanity is returning to the Nigerian stock market though not by way of positive market activities, thankfully, the management of the Nigerian Stock Market has finally discerned the wisdom that informs free market activities by removing [...]