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 […]
Arise TV presidential town hall meeting and the trophy
By Mohammed Danbatta AS the dust begins to settle on the Arise TV Presidential town hall meeting, political observers and Nigerians who followed the programme dispassionately have been unanimous in awarding Governor Ifeanyi Okowa the highest mark. The received opinion is that Okowa who is the vice presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, […]
On Buhari, Sanwo-Olu’s economic prescriptions
By Adewale Kupoluyi THE 2022 Lagos International Trade Fair provided another opportunity to examine the nation’s economy, as key players in the public and private sectors identified major challenges and proposed solutions for how things can improve. For the Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari the trade fair was the right time to showcase the nation’s capacity […]
Nigeria and the anger of its Diaspora
BY SOLA EBISENI UNDOUBTEDLY, Nigerians are angry, deep-seated rage with a nation that guarantees them nothing; its diaspora is most implacable, and do I hear you justifiably so? They are driven out so that they may not be torpedoed by a rudderless ship that defiles all systemic analyses. In ages past, it was the intruding […]
Hanu Fejiro – Doing the Most!
By Geoffrey Nwokolo It is known to many that a new dawn of technological optimism is here but what has been secret for an extended period is the full details of the man on whose shoulders the new movement firmly rests. There are men and there are certain Men. Hanu Fejiro is unarguably the later […]
Federal Government, apathy and flood in Niger Delta
By Braeyi Ekiye UNDERSTANDING how to use political power constructively makes a difference in leadership. Therefore, political power and the use of it can be broken into the negative and the positive. Such use of positive political power, imbued with the desire to evoke regulatory command in the process of giving leadership, is capable of […]
