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 […]
Let’s get to work on a roadmap for African carbon markets
By Yemi Osinbajo & Ivan Duque Marquez ONE of the key challenges for Africa in confronting the climate challenge is how to finance the necessary transformation of regional economies. Flows of climate finance from the Global North on the scale required remain more of a promise than a reality. Part of the solution, as obtained […]
Afenifere: All’s well that ends well
BY SOLA EBISENI IT takes discerning spirit to see the unequalled blessings to the Afenifere from what ordinary folks see as crisis from the recent gathering in Akure. To start with, it is apposite to say and as revealed in his interview with the Sunday Punch of November 6, that the meeting was conveyed by […]
Abia 2023: Renewed and sponsored media onslaught on Engr Enyinnaya Nwafor by jittery politicians
By Ben Udechukwu In the last 24 hours, the media ecosphere has been awash with rehashed and regurgitated falshoods on the person of Engineer Enyinnaya Nwafor by sponsored columnists and agents of politicians who trade on propaganda and falsehoods. The latest of this redundant trope and worn-out stories of looting of Abia treasury is the […]
Tinubu’s big deal for the North
By JESUTEGA ONOKPASA I HAVE never read a very nakedly contrived cocktail of falsehoods and misrepresentations than Dr. Sani Sabo’s article titled Tinubu’s plan to strangle the North. The truly weird and inciting article published by Daily Trust on November 4, claims the Tinubu and Senator Kashim Shettima presidential campaign manifesto seeks to “further plunder” […]
2023: Ikpeazu is in PDP for the long haul
2023: Ikpeazu is in PDP for the long haul
