The Tower of Mammon

The Tower of Mammon is a memoir detailing the personal experience of an ex-staff of NAL Merchant Bank. NAL, as it was fondly called, was the premier merchant bank in Nigeria. It commenced operations in 1960, rose to prominence in the 1980s and began a massive decline in the late 1990s. By the middle of 2000s and, like a ship adrift, the Nigerian Acceptances Limited a.k.a NAL Merchant Bank PLC a.k.a NAL Bank Plc had sunk in the murky terrain of the Nigerian banking industry. The coup de grce occurred in the aftermath of a re-capitalization exercise from which the bank never survived.XXX XXX XXXThis book is filled with the names of almost everyone that ever worked in NAL between 1978 and 1995. It also contains samples of the drama and intrigues that were experienced or witnessed by the author within that same timeframe. There was the story of a bank's driver who tried to use diabolical means to obtain cash from the author. A former staff confessed to theft, four years after the deed. The arrest of some staff for threatening an MD & CEO. And there were other strange events, including a bout of food poisoning and assassination attempt on the life of the author.