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 […]
Exercise: A panacea for mental health?
By Aishat M. Abisola AS everyone knows, maintaining a proper grasp on your mental health can be difficult, especially in stressful environments. Stressful situations make it hard for people to have good mental health which makes the mind vulnerable to mental illnesses like depression or anxiety disorder. As someone who has dealt with anxiety, I […]
INEC: Electoral process must be continually improved upon
By Andrew A. Erakhrumen THE challenges militating “ against taking governments in Nigeria to task, concerning their responsibilities for providing the public good, are increasingly daunting. For most Nigerian politicians, the only hurdle to be scaled is that of getting into office. Once in office – apart from members of their families and cronies, others […]
The 2023 presidential election and the national question: The Yoruba factor
BY SOLA EBISENI LAST week, we delved into the implications of the 2023 Presidential Election on the Nigerian national question. It was our contention that, unless handled properly, the election outcome would not only sing the federation’s nunc dimittis, but would also either make it healthier or hasten its self-imposed cataclysm caused by political indiscretions […]
Insecurity and call for state police
By Ray Umukoro AT the 2022 annual conference of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, ICAN, in Abuja, recently, Delta State governor and vice-presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, gave a fresh perspective on the state of insecurity in Nigeria. He recommended state police as panacea for the growing […]
2023: Afegbua and Obaseki’s frank take on APC’s fate
By Crusoe Osagie WHILE many Nigerians suffer under “ the weight of unprecedented socio-economic challenges foisted on them in the last seven years, it is quite regrettable that the All Progressives Congress, APC, and its hangers-on, while evidently denying the obvious, are falling over themselves to repudiate the frank take of Governor Godwin Obaseki on […]
