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 […]
Towards adopting new technologies in the telecom sector
By Zeenat Sambo IT is gratifying that the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, ordered MTN and Airtel to immediately reverse the hike in their data tariff plan, which they had implemented on their respective networks recently. MTN and Airtel subscribers suddenly realised that the operators had commenced a new data tariff plan which was an upward review […]
Ovie Omo-Agege and his crass vituperations
Over the weekend, the good people of Delta State and, indeed, many Nigerians were assaulted with the vile propaganda that is the stock-in-trade of the All Progressives Congress. Addressing a press conference, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, the APC governorship candidate for Delta Statelaunched a tirade against the Governor of Delta State and PDP Vice-Presidential Candidate, Senator […]
Connecting the dots between consumption and production
By David Adonri CONTRARY to the widely held impression, Nigeria is actually one of the least consuming countries in the world. The abysmal low per capita income of about USD 2,100, together with the over 100 million poor citizens living under USD 1 per day in Nigeria, attest to this fact. It is difficult to […]
The fire this time
BY NICK DAZANG THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, is required by law to register eligible voters, register political parties, oversee political parties, conduct voter education, promote knowledge of sound democratic processes, and conduct elections. To effectively carry out these lofty but challenging activities, INEC requires offices in all 774 local government areas and 8,809 […]
TINUBU: The obsessions of David Hundeyin
By Femi Fani-Kayode My dear friend and brother, Dr. Reuben Abati, I watched you and a colleague of yours by the name of Mr. Rufai Oseni interview a young man by the name of David Hundeyin, who apparently lives abroad and who describes himself as an “investigative journalist”, on your Morning Show last Tuesday. The topic […]
