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Equity market: Domestic investors outperform FPIs by 272.2% - The Great Case

How to Seduce Straight Guys Nigerian Stock Exchange By Nkiruka Nnorom CAPITAL MARKET D omestic investors have extended their dominance in the equities market with the value of their investment outstripping that of the foreign investors by 272.16 percent at the end of November, 2020. Specifically, the domestic investors’ commitment in equities rose to N250.50 billion as against N67.31 billion invested by their foreign counterparts during the same period. Domestic investors have consistently outperformed their foreign counterparts since the outbreak of coronavirus in Nigeria in February, 2020, a development investment analysts attributed to difficulty in repatriating funds by Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs). READ ALSO: Ohanaeze poll must not hold in Govt House – Ikokwu While domestic investors’ participation had risen by 224.65 percent between February and November, foreign investors, on the other hand, scaled down their investment by 5.6 percent from N71.34 billion in Feb...

Two dead, others injured as gunmen invade Rivers community - The Great Case

How to Seduce Straight Guys By Davies Iheamnachor, Port-Harcourt At least two people have been feared dead with about two others injured in a cult war that erupted between rival cult groups in Luubara Community, Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State. It was gathered that unknown gunmen suspected to be cultists on Tuesday night reportedly killed two persons at Luubara community. A native of the community, Nwika Barine, explained that the gunmen invaded the community at about 8:00 pm and attacked a beer parlour. ALSO READ:  Don’t attach religious sentiment to ban on crossover service, Ondo tells church leaders Barine said the gunmen shot at the people at the beer parlour, adding that two men, Mr Timothy Baridapdo and Bariyaa died at a spot. He also disclosed that two other ladies who sustained gunshot injuries were taken to the hospital by the Divisional Police Officer in Bori Division. Barine called on relevant security agencies to come to the aide of the community. A...

2021 may be year of famine - The Great Case

How to Seduce Straight Guys Chief Afe Babalola SAN By Aare Afe Babalola, SAN, OFR, CON PRIOR to colonisation, hunger and famine were alien to most African countries as there was widely-acknowledged food sustenance. Each household practised one form of farming or the other and consequently, there was enough to feed the family while the excess was exchanged by barter through some other forms of payment. This boom in food production had the effect of boosting the economy and therefore, the concept of begging for alms was totalling unheard of. There was no poverty, famine, or the incidence of begging in Africa. Lord Macaulay, in his address to the British Parliament on February 2, 1835, aptly remarked thus: I have travelled across the length and breadth of Africa and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief. Such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of such calibre, that I do not think we would ever conquer this country, unless we bre...

Nigerians harbour too much hatred to handle guns — Ogundokun - The Great Case

How to Seduce Straight Guys Shina Abubakar Osogbo A community leader and High Chief of Iwo, Abiola Ogundokun said Nigerians harbour too much hatred towards each other for any government to sanction the use of arm by individuals. He said approving license for individuals to bear gun could lead to more chaos as he claimed Nigerians lack the necessary discipline to handle a gun, especially as the hatred towards one another in the society is unbearable. Speaking during the 41st memorial prayer of his father in Iwo, he said there is too much conspiracy against Nigeria and it will take a commitment from all stakeholders to return the country to the path of peace and harmony. Also read: Anambra generates N85.5m from tertiary education in 10 months — Commissioner The Obanla of Iwo added that to tackle insecurity appropriately in the country parents must nurture their children with appropriate values rather than emphasising on materialism that usually forced them to want to cut corners t...

Equity market: Domestic investors outperform FPIs by 272.2% - The Great Case

How to Seduce Straight Guys Nigerian Stock Exchange By Nkiruka Nnorom CAPITAL MARKET D omestic investors have extended their dominance in the equities market with the value of their investment outstripping that of the foreign investors by 272.16 percent at the end of November, 2020. Specifically, the domestic investors’ commitment in equities rose to N250.50 billion as against N67.31 billion invested by their foreign counterparts during the same period. Domestic investors have consistently outperformed their foreign counterparts since the outbreak of coronavirus in Nigeria in February, 2020, a development investment analysts attributed to difficulty in repatriating funds by Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs). READ ALSO: Ohanaeze poll must not hold in Govt House – Ikokwu While domestic investors’ participation had risen by 224.65 percent between February and November, foreign investors, on the other hand, scaled down their investment by 5.6 percent from N71.34 billion in Feb...

Cheers as Foundation empowers Lagosians with items worth millions of naira to alleviate poverty - The Great Case

How to Seduce Straight Guys Arogbonlo Israel Hundreds of Lagosians have benefitted from the massive empowerment put up by Dr O.Yomi Sholoye Foundation to alleviate poverty in the State. The Foundation had in the past facilitated several poverty alleviation projects for women, men alongside scholarships and business startup capital for youths alike, but as the year 2020 is rounding off, the Foundation has once again emphasised the need to “teach people more on how to fish and not just giving them fish”. On Tuesday, 29th December 2020, the Foundation reportedly empowered over 500 Women, Men, and Youths alike with Buses, Tricycles, Grinding Machines, Deep Freezers, Sewing Machines, Cooking Gas and Noodles, Sales Coolers, Drinks and Umbrellas for small scale business setups, the list endless. Also read: Undergraduate fish seller wins ₦100k entrepreneurship prize While addressing newsmen on the motive behind the donation, the spokesperson of the Foundation, Honorable Olasunkanmi Oga...

AfCFTA: If Govt fails to fix power problem Nigeria’ll be disadvantaged — Dr Iyama - The Great Case

How to Seduce Straight Guys By Gabriel Ewepu As African Continental Free Trade Area, AfCFTA, set to take off in 2021, the President of Federation of Agricultural Commodity Associations of Nigeria, FACAN, Dr Victor Iyama, has raised concerns that without fixing the nation’s precarious power problem she will be disadvantaged in the stiff competition from other African countries, as he spoke on other salient issues. Excerpts : How prepared is FACAN for AfCFTA take off? We in FACAN are prepared for African Continental Free Trade Area, AfCFTA, by the time the whole thing sets off but the truth must be said like I have told my members that we should be ready for stiff competition. Most of the things that will be coming in are things from foreign lands, and that is the simple truth. Do you mean Nigerians are not equipped and prepared for the competition as far as AfCFTA is concerned? The main thing that will ease production is power. If power is not there and we operate on generator ...