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Infantino’s wager: Reforming football, risking legacy

Infantino’s wager: Reforming football, risking legacy

By ANTHONY KILA  Every significant reform begins with a wager. Some leaders wager that technology will solve yesterday’s problems. Others wager that money can accelerate tomorrow’s possibilities. Some gamble on persuasion; others on popularity. The most ambitious wager, however, is the belief that an institution can be fundamentally changed without changing what it is. Gianni […]
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N210 trillion: Nigeria’s numbers problem

N210 trillion: Nigeria’s numbers problem

By MAHMUD JAFAR The easiest way to rile Nigeria on the matter of public finance is to throw a number of endless zeroes at us and call it missing money. Nobody needs to explain the ledger from which it was drawn, or the accounting convention that produced it, or whether the sum describes cash that once […]

Tompolo, Otuaro and Borders

Tompolo, Otuaro and Borders

By: Enewaridideke Ekanpou Borders are the plagues of any society; borders are also the joys of any society. Border management strategies intentionally mapped out do produce results that become either destabilising or beneficial when viewed through the lens of man’s struggle for self-actualisation and social belonging in a society where identity-building is all. However society […]

Millions still rely on emergency airtime as inflation squeezes household budgets

Millions still rely on emergency airtime as inflation squeezes household budgets

By Tricia Eneh As rising food prices, transport fares and other living costs continue to strain household budgets, millions of Nigerians are relying on emergency airtime services to stay connected, reinforcing the growing importance of digital connectivity for work, business, banking and everyday communication. The service, widely used by prepaid mobile subscribers, allows eligible customers […]

Why Nigeria doesn’t need more training programmes but better employment systems

Why Nigeria doesn’t need more training programmes but better employment systems

By SAM DAIBO  Nigeria has become a nation of training programmes. Every week, somewhere across the country, another graduation ceremony celebrates young people completing courses in coding, welding, agribusiness, fashion design, renewable energy or entrepreneurship. Governments launch new empowerment schemes. Development partners fund fresh skills initiatives. Companies proudly invest in youth capacity-building. Yet millions of […]