Nigeria is a cash-driven economy. Yet, today, when cash is needed, the default option isn’t the bank’s ATM but the nearest Point-of-Sale, POS, agent. ATMs, once the backbone of convenience banking, now sit idle, often empty, gathering dust, while POS agents offer the only real alternative for cash withdrawals. In a cash-driven economy, ATMs have become […]

“He remembers the sterile scent of the hospital and the agonising realisation that, despite the availability of doctors’ expertise and other things required in the hospital to get his wife back on her feet, Ifelola was slipping away because of lack of bed to commence treatment.”

Nigerian engineer and academic, Engr. Ologe Solomon Ochuko, has been appointed to the esteemed Ground-borne Noise and Vibration Prediction and Monitoring Accounting for Uncertainty (NOVIU) Project, a Spanish government-funded research initiative.

By Joseph Erunke, Abuja The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has demanded its immediate inclusion in the board of the Nigerian Education Loan Fund,NELFUND. The students’ body expressed disappointment over its exclusion in the board, saying the action was akin to shaving a man’s head in his absence. NANS particularly remanded inclusion of student […]

The release, the sixth since the truce took effect on January 19, came after fears last week that the deal between Israel and Hamas was near collapse.