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The stock market is an institution where shares (as defined above) are bought and sold.  Shares can be sold as part of daily stock market activity, through share subscriptions and...

A core investor sale is defined as the transfer of at least 51% of ownership, accompanied by management control, in a company from government to new private owners.  Core investors may...

A share is a portion of a company owned by an individual, a group of individuals, or a firm.  Shares are not always physical pieces of paper as in the old days, since in many companies...

Privatisation, in the simplest term, is the transfer of ownership from the government (or public) sector to the private sector.  Privatisation can occur in one of many ways, including...

There are many possible definitions of what a state-owned enterprise (SOE) or public enterprise (PE) is. We define PEs as government-owned or government-controlled economic objects that...

The Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) is the Federal Government agency tasked with implementing the government’s privatisation programme, as the Secretariat to the National Council on...

Eleme Petrochemicals Company Limited (EPCL), located in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, is a petrochemicals complex originally fully-owned by the Federal Government of Nigeria and...