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Academy Opens Global Investment Research Institutes

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17 years ago

July 17, 2009

David’s Business Academy (DBA), an investment school that offers advanced financial research and executive education on investments has said arrangements are in the pipeline to establish world class global investment research institutions and virtual library in Nigeria.

Mr. Tunde Adeyemi, DBA research fellow and executive vice chairman DHTL Capital Management Limited who stated this recently in Lagos said the vision was to make Nigeria become a hub of Africa’s foremost international investment school with a mandate of filling the gap in the continent’s capita market by providing qualitative trainings, workshops and resources for the attainment of skilled human capital development and requirements to meet the challenging and dynamic global investment market development and practices,

Adeyemi noted that still under the private funding from the board of DHTL capital, the academy would be initiating further support across the confinement to help set up the institution.

He said the academy has put machinery in place to attract the best hands in finance especially investment across the globe to facilitate and help in support the quest to bring experts in finance across the key financial centres in the world to train and equip the continents professionals on the ideal and current capital market practices, coupled with advanced academic trainings in finance by the leading professors in this area.

Adeyemi noted that filling the gap in the today human capital development in the continent’s capital market is the key mission of the academy that has been recruiting qualified parishioners in America, Europe and Asia, attracting and interspacing between leading investments institutions across the globe.

“With our core aim of offering practical rhetorical and value added training programmes to institutions, interested individuals and other sovereign institutions. We have started initiating and structuring products and programmes that will satisfy and meet the needs of the capital market professionals and institutions. Our programme combines state-of-the-art knowledge in investment management with practical experience and insight into the funding of the capital markets”, he said.

Adeyemi noted that a number of factors have made investment management one of the fastest growing and competitive businesses in the financial services industry.

He listed the factors to include tremendous growth in assets under management, the globalisation of capital market, proliferation of investment alternatives changes in client demographics and relationships and rapid technological advancements.

Adeyemi said research estimates as a first quarter 2008, showed assets of the global fund management industry increased for the fifth year running to reach around $140 trillion.

He noted that this line of business requires a higher level of personalised service adding that the primary challenge for service providers has been to keep pace with changes in the industry.

He stated that while investors and their portfolio managers still concentrate on traditional investment vehicles such as publicity traded stock and bonds, an increasing number of modern techniques needs to be adopted to enhance a portfolio’s risk-return potential and relationships and that requires a great skills and consistent trainings and networking.

Adeyemi said the academy is looking at a niche partnership careers with companies in the financial market on how to obtain them practically in asset and risk management where it could impact in the requisite human capital to make investment decision.

He said arrangement has been concluded for the academy’s summer strategic training in financial asset management and alternative investment slated to commence in August.

Adeyemi noted that the short courses are targeted towards equipping practitioners and would-be practitioner with the needed skills and global knowledge of the dictates of the financial markets.

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Boat Mishap Kills Pastor, Wife And Church Members In Brass Water

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2 days ago

May 18, 2026

The Tide

A boat accident in Bayelsa state has killed a serving Pastor, Wife and other church members along Brass waterways

The sad incident happened at Odioama in Brass local government area of Bayelsa State when the Pastor, wife and members of his church were in a programme.

?Tide confirmed that the lifeless body of the Pastor’s wife has been found and deposited in a mortuary while the remains of her husband ,the Pastor is yet to be recovered

as search party are still ongoing.

Although the real cause of the boat Mishap is not yet known as at the time of this report, our Correspondent gathered that the identities of the Pastor, wife and church members were not disclosed to the public.

The mishap, Tide gathered occurred on Friday morning when the church members were on a boat transit

The Bayelsa State government and the state police command are yet to issue official statement’s on the sad accident

By: CHINEDU WOSU

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Rivers Workers Seek Scrapping Of Contributory Pension Scheme

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2 days ago

May 18, 2026

The Tide

The Rivers State Council of Nigeria Civil Service Union has called on the State Government to urgently scrap the contributory pension scheme, describing it as unfavourable to long-serving civil servants in the state.

Chairman of the union, Chukwuka Osuma, said this in an interview with newsmen in Port Harcourt, recently.

Osuma said the current pension structure has continued to worsen post-retirement hardship for workers.

He noted that the contributory pension scheme had failed to provide adequate retirement security for workers who had spent many years in service, especially those approaching retirement age.

According to him, civil servants who had served for more than 20 years were among the worst affected under the scheme, insisting that many retirees could no longer cope with prevailing economic realities.

He also informed that the Union has made moves to showcase their concerns, pleading with Governor Siminalayi Fubara to abolish the pension policy and introduce a more favourable arrangement for affected workers.

“The union was not opposed to pension reforms, the contributory scheme should only apply to newly employed workers or those with fewer years in service”, he said.

Osuma explained that workers who had already spent decades in the civil service ought to remain under a more secure pension structure capable of guaranteeing stability after retirement.

The labour leader further noted that inflation and the rising cost of living had continued to erode the value of retirement savings, thereby increasing the suffering of pensioners across the country.

He also appealed to the state government to consider extending the years of service in the civil service from 35 to 40 years and the retirement age from 60 to 65 years.

Osuma argued that such adjustment had become necessary in view of present-day economic realities and changing conditions in the workplace.

The unionist also reviewed that similar policies had already been adopted in some sectors and jurisdictions, expressing optimism that the State could also implement the reforms for the benefit of workers.

He however, commended Governor Fubara for approving an N85,000 minimum wage for workers in the state, noting that the amount was above the national benchmark of N70,000.

Osuma also acknowledged the government’s efforts in the area of workers’ promotions and bonuses, but insisted that pension reforms and extension of years of service remained critical to the long-term welfare and stability of civil servants in Rivers State.

By: King Onunwor

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FG Begins South-West Tour To Promote New Cooperative Bank

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1 week ago

May 13, 2026

The Tide

The Federal Government has launched the South-West zonal engagement and ministerial advocacy tour on the Cooperative Bank of Nigeria share capital mobilisation, sensitisation and cooperative sector digitalisation.

Reports say the initiative was launched through the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security.

According to reports, the advocacy tour, organised by the ministry’s Federal Department of Cooperatives, began on Monday in Lagos.

Speaking at the event, the Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Security and Supervising Minister of Cooperative Affairs, Dr Aliyu Abdullahi, said the initiative was part of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda.

Abdullahi described the exercise as a strategic effort to reposition the cooperative sector as a key driver of inclusive economic growth, financial inclusion, enterprise development, food security and national prosperity.

“Today represents a defining moment in our collective determination to reposition the cooperative sector as a major driver of inclusive economic growth, financial inclusion, enterprise development, food security and national prosperity,” he said.

The minister noted the modern cooperative movement in Nigeria originated in the South-West following the 1934 Strickland Report, which led to the enactment of the Cooperative Societies Ordinance of 1935.

According to him, the decision to commence the sensitisation and share capital mobilisation tour in the region is symbolic, as it marks a return to the roots of cooperative development in the country.

Abdullahi said the advocacy tour was a direct outcome of resolutions reached at the 8th Regular Meeting of the National Council on Cooperative Affairs held in Abuja in March 2026.

He said the council approved the Renewed Hope Cooperative Reform and Revamp Programme, a comprehensive framework designed to strengthen the cooperative sector and align it with the administration’s goal of building a one-trillion-dollar economy.

“The reform programme focuses on seven strategic pillars, including governance reforms, cooperative financing and the establishment of the Cooperative Bank of Nigeria, digitalisation, capacity building, value chain development, inclusion of youths, women and persons with disabilities, and strategic partnerships,” he said.

He said the establishment of the Cooperative Bank of Nigeria and the digitalisation of the cooperative sector were the two major transformational initiatives under the programme.

“The Cooperative Bank of Nigeria is aimed at rebuilding a strong cooperative financial system capable of supporting cooperators, farmers, artisans, traders, SMEs, youths, women and persons with disabilities with accessible and affordable financial services,” he said.

Abdullahi emphasised that the proposed bank would be government-enabled but not government-funded.

“Government is not establishing the bank as an owner, nor will it rely on Treasury Single Account funds.

“The role of government through the FMAFS is to provide policy support, stakeholder coordination, regulatory facilitation and an enabling environment under the Renewed Hope Cooperative Reform and Revamp Programme,” he said.

Also speaking, the Lagos State Commissioner for Commerce, Cooperatives, Trade and Investment, Mrs Folashade Ambrose-Medebem, reaffirmed the state government’s commitment to cooperative sector transformation.

She described cooperatives as critical tools for promoting inclusive growth, grassroots productivity, food security, financial inclusion and community wealth creation.

Ambrose-Medebem said Lagos State would continue to support reforms and collaborate with stakeholders to ensure the successful implementation of the Renewed Hope Cooperative Reform and Revamp Programme (2025–2030).

“Together, let us build a cooperative ecosystem that is modern, transparent, digitally enabled, financially inclusive and globally competitive.

“Let us build cooperatives that not only mobilise savings, but also mobilise prosperity,” she said.