Volume II, Issue 17

Tax Evasion! Adenuga May Have Problems With Foreign Banks
A feel of public opinion immediately after the publication of the damning news of company income tax evasion by Continental Oil and Gas and Conoil Producing, two upstream oil companies belonging to Otunba Mike Adenuga Jr., was that the $610million (N89billion) tax demand the Federal Inland Revenue [...]

BGL PRIVATE PLACEMENT FAILED PROMISE…INVESTORS REGRET

The investment environment was way different back in November 2007 when BGL one of Nigeria’s leading investment banking firms, conducted its private placement exercise. The Nigerian stock market was in ascendancy with the Nigerian Stock Exchange All Share Index growing by 96.2 c from 26,161.15 in June 2006 to 51,330.46 in June 2007. Market [...]
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N17 Billion Debt Scandal:Yar’Adua positions to take over BankPHB from Atuche

The recent uproar over a N17 billion debt scandal involving BankPHB may have given impetus to the Yar’Adua family to start listening to the argument of close aides of President Umar Musa-Yar’Adua on the strategic need for the President to set off the process of enabling his family to take position for more dominant roles [...]

Heavy Debt Burden: Banks suspend funding for Dangote’s cement project

A heavy debt burden and the anticipation of high profile competition for the share of the Nigerian cement supply side from Femi Otedola may have compelled Alhaji Aliko Dangote to call off investments with intent to expand production lines in his many cement manufacturing plants and to build new ones. Sources in the banking [...]

OCEANIC BANK, BANK PHB AND STERLING BANK GET CBN LIFELINE

Nigeria’s version of the global credit crunch might have crystalised into a reality that may not be easily wished away. Reports from sources inside the Central Bank of Nigeria asserted that three banks in Nigeria have been given lifelines to shore up their liquidity standing. These banks according to the source are; Oceanic Bank [...]

STANBIC IBTC BANK AFFIRMS BANKING INDUSTRY’s HIDDEN CHARGES

Have you watched the recent couple eating out at a restaurant television commercial of Stanbic IBTC? The television commercial is quite entertaining what with the embarrassment the couple had to endure at the restaurant. But, in fact, the message of the television commercial is succinct enough; it tells of the hidden charges to services rendered [...]

REVELATION OF CBN’S DISTRUSTS OF NIGERIAN BANKS

They say the Nigerian banking industry has some of the finest brains in the whole of the black African continent. Nobody should dispute this, if those white goons of the departed apartheid regime had not stayed longer than required, those South African banks that strut around telling who cares to listen of their grand size [...]

ANOTHER BANKING CRISIS IMMINENT!: MOVE YOUR MONEY TO STRONG BANKS…EXPERT ADVISES

Mr. Ori Adeyemo, a Forensic Accountant and crusader for best practices in the banking industry, has warned that the Nigerian banking industry is facing an imminent collapse unless urgent and reasonable measures are taken by the Federal Government to curtail the slide into what he described as anarchy and chaos. 
“By the nature of my [...]

EXPERT DECRIES BANK CHARGES ON RETURNED CHEQUES AS ILLEGAL

Mr. Ori Adeyemo, a forensic accountant and crusader for streamlined bank charges, has decried bank charges on returned cheques and described the fee deducted from accounts in consequence of returned cheques as illegal.
“It is trite that by virtue of Section 10, subsection of the defunct Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Bankers’ Tariff, a bank is [...]