Money in NIgeria

Ladi Kwali

Hadiza Ladi Kwali born in c.1925, was a Nigerian potter, the best known one in her time whose work won international acclaim for its ingenuity and beauty. Ladi Kwali was a native of Kwali village…

Paul Ogwuma

OGWUMA, Paul Agbai; Economist, Chartered Accountant, administrator and Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN between 1995 and 1999. He is a recipient of the national honour of the order of the…

Diepreye Alamieyeseigha

Diepreye Alamieyeseigha; Bayelsa State Governor, 1999-2005, a proponent of resource control and the sovereignty for Ijaw nation other than Nigeria. DSP styled himself the “governor-general” of…

Adigwe Sebastian

Adigwe Sebastian; Banker, also a member of the Steering Committee of the Business Support Group, BSG for the Federal Government’s Vision 2020, and member, Technical Working Group of Delta State…

Remi Olowude

Remi Olowude; Nigerian Insurance expert, fought consistently at the fore-front of the crusade to eliminate all forms of monopoly in the insurance industry. In 1992, he formed an insurance company…

EBI Elizabeth

Elizabeth Ebi; First lady-broker of the Nigerian Stock Exchange. Between 1979 and 1981, she was the director of Owners Operation at FCH Services Inc., Washington where she managed a portfolio in…

Hamzat Adisa Subair

Hamzat Adisa Subair was an accountant, co-founder, and first CEO of Nigeria’s first indigenous bank, the National Bank of Nigeria Ltd. Born in Olowogbowo district of Lagos Island. Subair was…

Money

Money history in Nigeria predates the colonial era and most of the forms of money met the modern criteria for ‘legal tender’, namely scarcity, intrinsic value, and portability. They came in…

Remi Babalola

Remi Babalola is a banker and politician from Ibadan. Remi was born in 1964 into a polygamous family with little means, where education wasn’t much of a priority. His value for education…

Capitalism

Capitalism, according to Investopedia, is a system of economics based on the private ownership of capital and production inputs, and on the production of goods and services for profit. This Adam…