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 [...]

SEC to force Finbank to list 2008TO LIST OVERDUE 2008 PUBLIC OFFER

In the consideration of mainstream investment community the public offer conducted by Finbank, (known at the time of the offer as First Inland Bank) has become one of the most storied public offers in the annals of the nation’s capital market activities. So many things seemed to have gone wrong with the offer climaxing, last [...]

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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SEC TO FORCE FINBANK TO LIST OVERDUE 2008 PUBLIC OFFER

In the consideration of mainstream investment community the public offer conducted by Finbank, (known at the time of the offer as First Inland Bank) has become one of the most storied public offers in the annals of the nation’s capital market activities. So many things seemed to have gone wrong with the offer climaxing, last [...]

PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPER GETS MANDATE TO RESTRUCTURE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Though it is yet to be made public, it has been confirmed that the capital market apex regulatory agency, the Securities and Exchange Commission is being sized up and re-engineered to cope with emerging challenges of regulating the nation’s capital market.
SEC’s inside source said multinational management and auditing giant, PriceWaterHouseCooper has been mandated to refocus [...]

TRANSGLOBE BECOMES MOST SUSPENDED STOCKBROKING FIRM IN THE CAPITAL MARKET

SEC had on behalf of 31 complainants handed over Onwuka to the EFCC at the end of a hearing involving Transglobe because almost all of the 31 complaints against the company originated during his tenure as an officer of the company and occurred with his personal knowledge.

BankPHB EMBROILED IN N17BILLION FRAUD SCANDAL …EFCC ARRESTS THREE DIRECTORS, IAA VICE-CHAIR

The management of the bank as a body was not in the know of the whole thing; those involved exploited their high offices to approve facilities within the threshold of their approving authorities as executive directors for Ademosun’s scheme.

ATUCHE MAY LOSE BANKPHB DEPOSITORS’ NBILLION IN CONTROVERSIAL SPRING BANK ACQUISITION: CBN, SEC, NSE INVOLVED

There is no concise dictionary definition of a bubble share, yet, this rather strange sounding lingo, has become the issue at the heart of the alleged controversial acquisition of Spring Bank Plc by BankPHB Plc. Roughly, bubble share may mean shares held by an individual investor or body corporate that, however, cannot be classified as [...]

LET THE MARKET BE!

 

What dominated my thoughts all through the slur of last week’s scandalous heehaw of denials of appointment of market makers for the Nigerian stock market and a supposed N600 billion bail-out, was to simply carry my face, literally speaking, away from official confusion brazenly hoisted on Nigerians by people in government.

That many Nigerian investors nurse [...]