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THREE international banks and some local investors have offered to take over five troubled banks in Nigeria.
Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, disclosed yesterday in Basel, Switzerland, that the picture on the sale of the banks would become clearer by mid-August this year.
Sanusi said that the prospective buyers would submit their offers to the Federal Government by mid-July.

According to him, “we have got three international banks that have remained in the serious running to acquire the banks. We also have a number of private equity houses and local lenders, who will submit offers for banks bailed out by the state by mid-July.”
He said the interested parties were undertaking “detailed” due diligence on the affected banks.
Sanusi told journalists in Basel that “by the middle of August, we should actually have clear visibility on at least five of the banks.”

The CBN chief said, “securing a future for Union Bank, Oceanic, Intercontinental, Bank PHB and Afribank is our priority as these banks are the most systematically important” to Nigeria.”
Also yesterday, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan pledged his administration’s resolve to execute programmes that would make Nigeria more attractive to foreign investors.

Jonathan told the outgoing Ambassadors of China and The Netherlands in separate meetings that Nigeria will do what is necessary to attract more foreign investments because it is conscious of the fact that foreign investors are needed to create jobs for the country’s growing youth population.

Similarly, the Speaker of House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, has said the National Assembly would work with the Federal Ministry of Finance and other departments of the Executive arm of government to review the 2010 budget if there was a drop in the price of oil in the international market.

He told journalists at the Presidential Wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, on his way to Abuja that the National Assembly might as a result of reduction in the prices of oil, cut the budget by 45 per cent.

Meanwhile, a senior Standard & Poor's analyst has said Nigerian banks continue to look extremely risky despite the bailout measures of the CBN last year.


http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/

nana:
It's either some people needs my glasses or they just too dumb. Read before replying people!

trust me sweets, even if you lend out your glasses for free, some folks are just morons!. . .they never understand even the simplest things, and to think these same people would be given the right to vote and be voted for is a serious slap on democracy!

mschew!!

jegyeancah:
i need a boyfriend that as a fear of god

go to bed!, , , NOW!

190:
Mama-gee it is,
and
so shall it be,
I dont Joke with she and pweety4me's matter

anyway pls leave odia
we are all memberz of same cult,
dont come here and expose us

nah!,   . . i'd love to stick my foot down his throat. . .he needs to be taught some lessons, and believe me, I'm a good teacher


@Odeiro:

yo árse is mine 

190:
^^

Oohh wrong identity

Later
You be waste of tyme toasting

i suggest you stick to Mama gee!. .

odiaero:
u knw, your level is too low 4 me to be chtting with, the last time i checked, u are wanted in psychiatric hospital, so i already knw your brains needs to be formated and reprogrammed

haha. . .you sound so bitter!. . . i can't be bothered about the rants of an e-diot, not when i'm chilling with a bottle of Chardonnay and a good cold play track.

Run along boy. . . .the village needs more wine

by the time i'm done wiv you, you'd be sober!

;d

@Odiero and 190:

yo árse is mine from henceforth!

pray i dont find you making dumb threads around. . . i'm gon have fun all the way

By the time i'm done, i would have brought out the best in you . .   

odiaero:
Flawless Victory

***grab popcorn*** the weather is about to get hot, someone plz get me coke

run along boy. . .go get a life!

I usually don't trade words with morons, in your own case, i've made an exception, you should be glad!

^^ are you drunk again?

190:
^^

come Violent kingdom are you siding him!!

shouldn't you be tapping wine?

WTF are you doing on the internet?

-PAPA-GEE alias 190;who has popcorns there to pass around
- PWEETY4ME;"i have
_PAPA-GEE;*chews pop corn as he watches

this is damn funny!

so much frustration all bottled up in one individual. . . i imagine it must hurt!

It's just sick!

From a genetic understanding, you'd be birthing kids with high genetic/hormonal disorders, not to mention  intense emotional and spiritual complications - big social problems down the road.

besides that, how do you introduce your sister as your wife at a family reunion

This is the reason why the world will forever remain in a sick state, I'd bet my supper, in the nearest future, someone wouldn't see any big deal in bestiality---and some sick folks will be demanding to know why its bad to stick a d in a fowl!

***clears throat****

@Mamagee-----

guess who's with the evil grin

and all of a sudden, the eagles now represent the whites. . .me thinks government ought to provide more jobs, and Sundays should be added to working days of the week

such a shame. . . i was just starting to fall in love with the misandrist!

****yawns***

nigerfine:
@evil brain , what a name;please don't show your ignorance in public.i[b]n developed countries Sims are registered[/b]. which should see it as a welcome development and the question becomes ;the modality of doing this.it could cub crime to a degree, we cant keep on condemning on and on without advising and moving forward.

erhm. . in as much as i don't quite agree with evil brain's school of tot, i wouldn't think you are right with the bolded part. in the UK, you can always get free sims even at train stations without any form of registration whatsoever.

Evil Brain:
My god! Am I the only person that sees what a silly idea this is?

So the government is going to register sim cards to prevent crime? But whats to stop a thief from stealing someone else's phone and using it to do whatever? And what kind of silly criminal uses his personal phone to commit crime?

That aside sef, whats to stop me from telling MTN that my name is Nelson Mandela or Oliver DeCoque or something? How are they going to prove that I'm not Nelson Mandela? Hardly anybody has a passport in this country, and the equally silly national ID project only targeted those over 18 years (less than 40% of the population according to UN figures) and many of those either were never registered, never got their cards or got them and have since lost them.

What percentage of the people in your village (or even in Lagos sef) have any sort of valid documentation, birth certificate or whatever to prove who they are? And whats to stop these criminals that are so dangerous that you have to inconvenience tens of millions of law abiding citizens from simply forging something Salisu Buhari style?

And how is my grandmother going to travel from the village to the nearest Glo service centre God knows how many kilometers away to register her phone? How many hours/days/weeks is she going to queue for. It took me over 6 hours just to reclaim my line when my phone was stolen a few years ago because of the crazy queue at the Glo office in Challenge, Ibadan. What's going to happen when the whole country is rushing to beat the deadline?

And what about the privacy implications? Don't I have the right to make a phone call without our useless, corrupt government knowing about it? What if you're cheating on your girlfriend (not a crime) or plotting to escape from an abusive husband (also not a crime). Is it not your right to keep your secrets secret as long as you're not breaking the law?

This kind of rubbish is exactly the reason why Nigeria is so backward. Because we are too complacent to fight for our rights and freedoms and we're too silly to notice when the people upstairs are sh!tting on us.

Nonsense!!!

This should be seen as a welcome development by all Nigerians, and its quite clear that it's advantages far outweigh the downsides, if carefully implemented.

The registration thingy, if implemented with the use of fingerprint technology would go a long way in establishing identities of millions of Nigerians, and you really wouldn't be able to use different names at different points, once you have your biometric details stored in a database.

Quite frankly, we ought to have passed the age in which fingerprints are collected from a crime scene and there isn't any database to match such with. . . .the registration process if handled properly will go a long way in addressing this. . . also to think of the great potentials it has in curbing fraudulent activities which has continuously marred the Nigerian image, both home and abroad, one will think the long queues and waitings is a little sacrifice to pay.

I also doubt that the government is bringing up this policies to monitor your private life. . . i mean, i don't think anyone is getting employed to monitor daily activities of over a hundred million mobile phone users. . .who cares?
The scheme is designed to investigate specific cases and obtain evidence for prosecution purposes.


The fight for a better Nigeria has to begin somewhere, even if it involves given up a little privacy!

Carolece:
Never have.
Never will.
Dont want any man on me for no long hours. A few minutes and I am satisfied, because I dont really like men and sx in the first place.

weird!

. . Musiwa of "This globe africa"