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 […]
Ngige and ASUU’s nationwide protest rallies
By Joseph Atobisi WHEN everyone thought that peace had returned to our ivory towers after the prolonged strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, the union is back in the trenches again. This time, ASUU is holding nationwide protest rallies to express its dissatisfaction with the decision of the Federal Government to pay […]
On the people’s train with Peter Obi and Datti Baba-Ahmed for Nigeria’s redemption
BY SOLA EBISENI OUR presence at the momentous OBIDATTI rally in Ibadan last Wednesday, November 21, was the ultimate evidence that we have boarded the people’s train with Peter Obi and Datti Ahmed for the redemption of our country. To those who could not see beyond the conventional and are irredeemably fixated on the search […]
MPI: Buhari did not throw 133m Nigerians into poverty (2)
Continuing from yesterday, the discourse concludes today with the assurance that the Federal Government will continue to expand its social protection and poverty reduction strategies into states to deliver on its commitment to lift citizens out of extreme poverty By Prince Clem Ikanade Agba THE MPI is not just a measurement tool, but one that […]
Insights about inflation and CBN’s policy options
By Arize Nwobu INFLATION is an economic situation where there is a general rise in the prices of goods and services. It is the increase in the cost of living in a country. Inflation harms the economy and well-being of consumers, especially the lower-income ones, who spend a higher proportion of their income on necessities. […]
MPI: Buhari did not throw 133m Nigerians into poverty
By Prince Clem Ikanade Agba PETER Drucker, the management guru, is often quoted as having said: “You can’t manage what you can’t measure.” But I wish to follow up with an addition that is as relevant and critical, which is: “If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.” These quotes are important premises for […]
