Category: Finance – Money

  • Subomi Balogun

    Subomi Balogun is a banker, founder of the First City Monument Bank, and patriarch of an emerging professional dynasty. Subomi Balogun was born 1934 in Ijebu Ode to a native authority court register of colonial Nigeria. He had his secondary education at Igbobi College, Yaba, Lagos afterwhich he worked as a teacher for a year.…

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  • Tayo Oviosu

    Tayo Oviosu is an entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Paga, a consumer-finance company. Born and raised with a middle-class upbringing in Lagos. Tayo bagged a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, cum laude, from the University of Southern California and a Master’s in Business Administration from Stanford University. After working at a couple of start-up companies…

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  • The Great Depression

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    The Great Depression was the deep economic crisis of the 1930s started in America after steep fall in stocks, in which many world countries participated owing to the maintenance of the gold standard of exchange. Hoarding of money followed the loss of confidence in the economic system, and general purchasing power declined. The effect of…

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