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Aks:
You can take this to the bank: Oando sell off will continue till it reaches N13+ also Transcorp Sell off will continue till it reaches N2.80+. The major arm of Heirs holdings bringing in the revenue is the Hotel business which is now a seperate entity. BTW, Oando re-entry @ anything close to N14 won't be a bad option

I pity those guys taking myjoy08 advice hook, line and sinker. I doubt if this guy invest @ all on NSE. All he does is to recommend BUY, BUY, BUYYYYYYYYYYY which is a no brainer to me

Please no names calling in the forum! Afterall their is always a disclaimer for all his recommendations!

BTW if Mugu no fall; how guy man go take chop naa??

Born2berich:
The number of newbies on this forum is just increasing dramatically. Myself, stockbull and 9free need to start collecting access fee here very soon.

bros You don call as una dey take share the largesse finish??

me nko?? I no follow waka come??

Primetech:
Is this CHICAGO BULL OR DAURA BULL?

MORE LIKE Buhari BOOL!!!

I just dey enjoy this Buhari bull o!!!

Fidelity bank una just do like Bauchi state now... good div!

DIVIDEND OF 75KOBO AND 1 FOR 4 OF GLAXO SMITHLINE...

chimchris247:
Pls I sell off my fcmb stock today will 1 benefit from there dividend

No sir, you will not benefit.

it will be marked down on Monday.

http://www.nse.com.ng/Financial_NewsDocs/8960_CAVERTON_OFFSHORE_AUDITED_DEC_2014_FINANCIAL_STATEMENTS_MARCH_2015.pdf

CORPORATE ACTION

Proposed Bonus NIL

Proposed Dividend 10k

Closure Date TBA

Date of Payment TBA

AGM Date TBA

AGM Venue TBA

http://www.nse.com.ng/Financial_NewsDocs/8957_CHAMS_PLC_2014_AUDITED_ACCOUNTS_FINANCIAL_STATEMENTS_MARCH_2015.pdf

Even chams plc doesn't want to be left out.

To pay 2kobo dividend...

smh!!!

what we should have done like 5 years ago...

#NeverAgain will a clueless guy run this country aground!

MilikiAgent:
Already the programming has commenced
http://www.proshareng.com/news/26447/Market-reaction-to-UBA-Q4-2014-results-is-positive-Proshare

haha.. you think Elumelu will just seat down and allow you guys to rubbish his bank like that?

At this rate if even GMB wants to loose; He cannot loose!!

Sai Buhari!!!

Change has Finally come!!

We all knew naa...

Richard Grenell who was a former spokesman to an Ambassador...

Nigerians should listen to Ambassador John Campbell instead..

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/02/buhari-not-extremist-ex-us-ambassador/

Another Foreign Truth telling Journalist!

#NeverAgain will a shoeless clueless man be our president!

Sai Buhari! Change!!

Sai Baba!!

Kindergarten President!!

No wonder he was calling for a debate! SMH

Sai Buhari!! Change!!

melvinjames:
Kevin, Charlyn & Kimberly Associates, a United Kingdom based research and political risk consultancy firm, has stated that incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will win the 2015 presidential election with a margin of 13 per cent (probability).

The group, which used both ‘monkey survey’ and ‘Political Risk Index’ to forecast the Nigeria election, projected a Jonathan’s win if everything remains constant.

In a statement by Mr O.C Vince, the Vice President of the firm for West Africa, while addressing a press conference in Abuja, on Thursday, explained that the firm has no partisan interest in the outcome of the election which is left for the people of Nigeria to decide.

The company said it decided to conduct the survey because of the general global interest the Nigeria election has generated. “Many people around the world, including political leaders and investors are focusing on Nigeria to see how the process of democracy is managed,” he stated.

RUBBISH COMPANY WITHOUT A WEBSITE!! RUBBISH RESEARCH!! RUBBISH PARTY!!!

ITS EITHER GEJ AND PDP HAS BEEN SCAMMED ONCE AGAIN OR THEY ARE TRYING TO SCAM SOME GAULIBBLE PEOPLE ONCE AGAIN!

TRY HARDER!!!!!

viczing:
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You just spoke like lai mohammed, is he your father?

Yes! Oya tell us who your father is?

Omo ale jati jati!!

Since the so called Monkey survey by United Kingdom-based firm Kevin, Charlyn and Kimberly which gave GEJ a win, I have decided to seek out the company and get more details on how they came about their figures.

I decided to check for their website; nothing like that came up. I have even asked a friend in the UK to search on the telephone directory and other search engines there, Yet nothing seems to come up.

The question is: Are these guys a fraud?

Was GEJ and PDP scammed again by a group of desperate Fraudsters?

Was is just deliberate by PDP to arrange this survey in preparation for their proposed grand rigging?

Please anyone with information on this company should post for us to view. I have serious business to discuss with them!

please can somebody please post the website of this so called Kimberly research people

I need to learn more about them and how they arrived at their research results

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/nigeria/11482533/Why-wont-Nigeria-let-foreign-journalists-cover-its-elections.html

I was looking forward to being in Nigeria this weekend, writing a preview for the presidential elections at the end of the month. Not the way every Telegraph reader might want to spend their weekend, I grant you, but by foreign correspondents' standards, it's a Premier League fixture.

The contest will decide who rules West Africa's most important country, and in the wake of last year's kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls by Boko Haram, the wider world will be following it in a way they never used to.

Sadly, if it's on-the-ground reportage you want, don't come to me. Or The Times or Channel 4 News. Or any of the 20-odd other British media outlets that have asked for press visas to cover the elections, and whose applications still languish in a pile at the Nigerian High Commission in London. (Fee £300, non-returnable.)

Nobody has actually been refused outright. But given that the process normally takes only a week, and given that my application went in two months ago, I’m beginning to think the Nigerian government doesn't want me there. Or, indeed any of the other foreign hacks whose applications are still waiting other at Nigerian embassies around the world.

Have I written something to offend them? Much as it would be nice to think that I have upset the rich and powerful as a result of previous reporting trips to Nigeria, I don't think it's anything personal. Rather, it seems that elements in the government - either in the presidency or the security services - have decided that it would be best if the international media were kept at bay.


Goodluck Jonathan - does he not want foreign media covering his re-election bid? (EPA)

Instead, West Africa's biggest elections - in which a country three times the population of Britain will be casting its vote - will go ahead with only a limited foreign media presence, courtesy mainly of local representatives of the BBC, Reuters and Associated Press.

The Nigerian government accepted £305m of British aid this year, not to mention British help in training its military and hunting for the missing schoolgirls. But when it comes to elections, it would rather we minded our own business.

So why is this happening? Officially, it's just a matter of bureaucracy: a few have been granted, apparently, but a lot of others are still awaiting "clearance" from no fewer than three different government ministries. The problem with that excuse, though, is that the applications were originally filed in time for a previous election date, February 15. That was then postponed until March 28, to allow the government to make more efforts against Boko Haram, and ensure polling booths could open in the north.

That's an extra six weeks, during which it would surely have been possible to sift through a few hundred press visa applications. After all, Nigerian High Commissions around the world process thousands of routine business visas every day.


The kidnapped schoolgirls have put Nigeria's elections in the spotlight - but who will be there to cover them? (AFP)

True, journalists' applications aren't as straightforward. We have to undergo "security checks" apparently. Although if anyone is useless as a terrorist, it's a Western hack. Something to do with our habit of wandering around with notebooks and cameramen in tow, announcing our presence to all and sundry.

So what's the real reason then? Nobody can say for certain, but most journalists, and a number of foreign diplomats, guess it is because of the deluge of bad press that President Goodluck Jonathan's government got when the schoolgirl kidnapping story became big in May.

Not only was it harsh, it was probably the first time the world's press had decamped to Nigeria since the Biafran War. Most Westerners, until recently, would barely have known who Mr Jonathan was. Now, thanks to the BringBackOurGirls campaign on Twitter, there are teenage girls from Peckham to Pakistan who have been told he's useless.

Fair enough, much of the criticism was unjustified. The government's initial response to the kidnapping was tardy, yes, but also reflected the fact that in north-east Nigeria, where communications are always patchy, it was far from clear at first what had happened.


Goodluck Jonathan's government has been criticised - sometimes unfairly - over its response to Boko Haram

But brushing off unfair criticism is part of what makes democratic governments what they are, and besides, Nigeria's own lively domestic media were every bit as critical. Who, it should be noted, have probably far more influence than foreign media when it comes to Nigerians making up their minds who to vote for.

But having foreign press there is still part of the "free, fair and transparent" criteria to make sure an election result is recognised by both sides. This is especially true when the vote is close. Remember what happened, after all, in Kenya in 2008, where a dispute over who had won led to the deaths of more than 800 people in violence after the elections.


Women wait to collect their Permanent Voter Cards at Shimaw, southwestern Nigeria (AFP)

Nigeria is facing a similarly neck-and-neck race this time around, with Mr Jonathan equal in the polls with his rival for power, the ex-general Mohamadu Buhari. If he does retain power, he will already have handed Mr Buhari's supporters plenty of ammunition to support their case that the contest wasn't a transparent one. And given that violence almost always takes place after Nigerian elections anyway - 500 died in 2011 alone - the consequences could be very nasty.

True, the election isn’t until the Saturday after next, and perhaps my visa will arrive at the last minute next week. But that's not great in terms of giving the elections proper coverage. The idea is to go out at least a week in advance to give the issues a decent airing ahead of the polls, not just turn up to record the vote.

Countries that only let foreign press in for a few days around election times are observing the rules of the game but not the spirit. Which is why it’s a tactic favoured in less-than-democratic places like Iran and Belarus. A category to which I will now be adding Nigeria, unless it proves me wrong by granting those backlogged press visas pronto. I'll be happy to stand corrected.

myjoy08:
http://www.nse.com.ng/Financial_NewsDocs/8794_UNITY_BANK_2014_AUDITED_ACCOUNTS_FINANCIAL_STATEMENTS_MARCH_2015.pdf

Unity Bank....

Una don hide the dividend again like una do for Uba cap?

GEJ has got no hiding place!!!

He either goes back peacefully to Otueke and face his fishing deals or join Gbagbo at ICC prisons at Holland.

Sai Buhari!!!

Change has come!!

#IhaveDecided

Even if they do the Election next year APC and GMB will still win!

No Jupiter can save GEJ in this one! Even if they don't do the elections in the # states with Insecurity issues, APC and GMB will still win!

Jona just dey pack your kaya dey put inside carton small small! Change has come!

Sai Buhari!!

wow!!

the is the best VP ever in our history!!

Just look at his simplicity, his intelligence, his sharpness and his fitness!!

Sai Buhari!!

Change has come!!

SAI BABA!!

SAI BUHARI!!!

SAI ONE NIGERIA!!!!

Politics just dey start!!

na now EFCC don get mouth to bark! may we see if dem go fit bite!

The Eurasia Group has predicted that General Muhammadu Buhari has a 60 percent probability of beating President Goodluck Jonathan in this month’s election.

Africa practice head and Analyst Philippe de Pontet writes today that while Jonathan was a favourite in the March 28 election, representing a victory for the country’s Christian south, the electoral map is tilting to Buhari in swing regions in the southwest and middle of the country.

Buhari would be a technocrat, and investors could expect business-oriented policies, de Pontet writes, but Eurasia Group remains neutral on Nigeria for the long term, given downside risks to oil production and challenges to policy implementation. He adds:

Nigeria’s Peoples Democratic Party won the south in 2011 elections.

“The election will still be difficult to call, but our expectation of a narrow Jonathan win was predicated on several factors that are losing some saliency late in the campaign.

“Chief among them is the incumbency and financial advantages of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

While this still helps Jonathan, its impact is blunted by the intensity of support for Buhari, lackluster grassroots campaigning by the PDP, and new anti-rigging measures by the electoral commission. New permanent voting cards and card readers will sharply reduce the level of rigging seen in 2011, when Jonathan beat Buhari in a landslide …

While we expected the electoral map to favor Jonathan, current trends suggest that the swing regions may side with Buhari, including the Christian-majority and heavily-populated southwest around Lagos. That could be the decisive demographic factor in the election …”

A local think tank, the Center for Public Policy Alternatives, gives Buhari a 58 percent to 32 percent lead in Lagos state, where Jonathan won the last election. Eurasia Group thinks Jonathan’s approval rating is below the 40 percent threshold under which incumbents have a hard time getting reelected.

“Despite some important military gains against the terror group, Boko Haram in the northeast, and a partial exoneration of its oil revenue management in a recent PWC audit, Jonathan’s Peoples Democratic Party is starting to look desperate. But it is not clear … that Buhari has a strong economic policy orientation. This uncertainty is a chief risk for investors.”

Jonathan is likely to contest an unfavorable outcome, especially a close election, and that could mean protracted violence.

“The reason we aren’t upgrading Nigeria’s outlook to positive, however, rests in the potential for an oil disruption and the likely pushback to Buhari’s policy agenda in a highly polarized political climate.

“His victory is likely to unleash a resurgence of militancy in the Niger Delta (Jonathan’s home region) that targets the oil sector.

Former Delta militants have threatened to blow up oil pipelines, platforms, and personnel as in the past when they routinely took up to 500,000 barrels per day offline. There is likely some bluster in their threats …“

http://newmail-ng.com/new/buhari-has-60-percent-edge-over-jonathan-says-eurasia-group/

natruetalk:
Q3 EPS 28, full year EPS 31

am expecting 15 - 18k dividend dis time. more than dis will be a surprise

myjoy what is d dividend ?

a poor result as expected when compared to Afriprud..

lets look at 15k and then watch it drop back to 1.30

Nigeria has brought in hundreds of mercenaries from South Africa and the former Soviet Union to give its offensive against Boko Haram a shot in the arm before a March 28 election, according to regional security, defense and diplomatic sources.

Rumors about the use of foreign "soldiers of fortune" against the Islamist militant group gained substance this month when pictures surfaced on Twitter showing armored vehicles rumbling along a street in what was said to be Maiduguri, the regional capital of Nigeria's Boko Haram-hit northeast.

In one photo that appeared on Twitter on March 6, a white man in a khaki tee-shirt and body armor is shown beside a heavy-caliber machine gun on top of one of the sand-colored vehicles as the column drives through the streets at dusk.

A Reuters reporter with knowledge of Maiduguri was able to verify the location of the photo as the Bama road, leading southeast out of the city, near the University of Maiduguri.

Election campaign posters of Borno state governor Kashim Shettima hanging from street lights indicate it was taken recently. The lights, notable for their ornate ironwork, were only installed last year.

In confirming the presence of hundreds of foreign military contractors on the ground, including recently in the city of Maiduguri, security and diplomatic sources put the total much higher than the hundred or so previously reported.

Nigerian government spokesman Mike Omeri declined to comment, referring questions to military spokesman Chris Olukolade, who also declined to respond to multiple requests for comment.

In an interview with Voice of America late on Wednesday, President Goodluck Jonathan said two companies were providing "trainers and technicians" to help Nigerian forces. He did not name the firms, or the nationalities, or give numbers.

But a West African security source and a South African defense source said the foreign troops were linked to the bosses of former South African private military firm Executive Outcomes.

Executive Outcomes was best-known for its involvement in Angola's 1975-2002 civil war and against Revolutionary United Front rebels in an internal conflict in Sierra Leone in 1995. It disbanded in 1998, under pressure from the post-apartheid government in Pretoria to curtail mercenary activities.

The West African security source said several hundred foreigners were involved in running major offensive operations against Boko Haram, and were being paid around $400 a day in cash.

Their impact on the fighting so far could not be quantified, but the general run of the campaign has seen the tide turn somewhat against Boko Haram in recent weeks.

Separately, a South African defense contractor confirmed to Reuters that ex-Executive Outcomes leaders were involved in the deployment, which comes after the six-week postponement of elections in mid-February due to the threat from Boko Haram.

One Abuja-based diplomat said the South Africans were backed by soldiers and hardware from the former Soviet Union in an alliance against Boko Haram, which has killed thousands of people in its six-year campaign to establish an Islamic caliphate in northern Nigeria.

"It's an incoherent mix of people, helicopters and random kit from all sorts of different sources, but there is an element of internal cohesion from the Nigerian army," the diplomat said.

"It appears to be a desperate ploy to get some sort of tactical success up there in six weeks for the electoral boost," the diplomat added. The numbers of soldiers involved were in the "low hundreds", the diplomat added.

"NO BUSINESS TO BE THERE"

John Stupart, editor of African Defence Review, identified the troop carriers as Reva III, manufactured by a Pretoria-based company called Integrated Convoy Protection.

After reports of South African military trainers first surfaced in the Afrikaans-language Beeld newspaper in January, Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapise-Nqakula made clear her displeasure, saying any deployment would be illegal under 1998 anti-mercenary laws.

"They are mercenaries, whether they are training, skilling the Nigerian defense force, or scouting for them. The point is they have no business to be there," she was quoted as saying in domestic media this month.

South Africa bans its nationals from participating directly in hostilities for private gain. Georgia, seen as a major source of mercenaries, has laws before parliament criminalizing participation in a broad range of foreign military activities.

Reuters was unable to reach the former bosses of Executive Outcomes through military contacts in South Africa.

The appearance of foreign private soldiers comes four months after Nigeria’s ambassador to the United States said Washington was not helping the struggle against Boko Haram, and had failed to share intelligence and sell Nigeria the weapons it needed.

The presence of mercenaries from South Africa and the former Soviet Union adds to the broad array of forces lining up against Boko Haram, which has emerged in the last few years as sub-Saharan Africa's biggest security threat.

Chad, Niger, Cameroon and Benin have committed troops to an 8,700-strong regional force. This week, Chad and Niger launched a joint military offensive deep into Nigerian territory.

U.S. and European special forces have just completed three weeks of war games with regional counterparts near Lake Chad, one of boundaries of a Boko Haram sphere of influence thought at one time to be the size of Belgium.

(Story corrects name of magazine in paragraph 17)

(Additional reporting by Tim Cocks, Isaac Abrak, Julia Payne and Lanre Ola; Editing by Giles Elgood)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/12/us-nigeria-violence-mercenaries-idUSKBN0M81CN20150312

Wow!!!

so its all about winning more votes sha!!

When will GEJ stop denigrating the office of the presidency? now even Morroco don use do yeye!

Sai Buhari!!

https://www.nairaland.com/2190798/apc-rally-kaduna-live-pictures


saTANoids!!

kotlass:
I bailed out of FCMB at N2.55 when I noticed it only for the infamous bad guy to show up and mop it pass my exit price.

You left a abit too early..

these guys have deep pockets o!!

I m now looking at exiting N3 from my earlier 2.34 I had wanted to bail before...