The US built world’s greatest card system
By YVONNE-FAITH ELAIGWU The history of payments is, in many ways, the history of making value easier to move. We started at barter and are now at electronic transfers, with stablecoins suggesting that the next evolution is here. New payment methods rarely make their predecessors useless. Cash did not immediately eliminate barter. Cards did not […]
INEC: Time to earn trust
What is key, however, is for INEC to conduct some of the best elections in our annals in these three states.
RE: Aare Afe Babalola on Nigeria: Restructure or reconfigure (1)
RIGHT OF REPLY By Wale Odeku THE Yoruba Referendum Committee has been following your interventions on Re-Federalising Nigeria through your published articles in the Vanguard Newspaper, titled “Nigeria: Restructure or reconfigure”. Part 7 was published on October 11, 2023. Although you wrote that there are “three main options for undertaking a restructuring process” you zeroed […]
Eulogy to an epitome of integrity, Mr Akintola Williams
By Chief Olusegun Osunkeye ON a hot Saturday afternoon in December 1958, after sitting for the Cambridge School Certificate Examination, I set out to look for a gentleman whose name and reputation we have heard of at King’s College, Lagos. So, at 11 Martins Street, Lagos when I reached the second floor, everywhere was quiet. […]
If All Governors were Nyesom Wike
By Bonaventure Melah Since the founding of the present, united nation called Nigeria through amalgamation, down to independence up to today, the country has been plagued by lack of quality leadership as those entrusted with power by the people have ended up as huge disappointments, leaving the people with only the taste of ash in […]
Social effect of using data to measure politics and policy
Campaign season is in full swing across Imo, Kogi, and Bayelsa states, and candidates are making lofty promises that align with the pressing needs of the people
