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 […]
Okowa: An apt National honour
By Nelson Egware On Tuesday October 11, 2022, President Muhammadu Buhari would confer national honours awards on deserving Nigerians at an event scheduled to hold at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, at 9 a.m. The national honours, which are awarded yearly, are backed by the National Honours Act No 5 of 1964 and are bestowed […]
The Nigerian Dream
BY NICK DAZANG In 1931, freelance writer, James Truslow Adams, authored EPIC AMERICA. This book popularised the idea of the AMERICAN DREAM. It proceeded to encapsulate it thus: ”But there has been also the American Dream, that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for every man, with opportunity […]
Lagos2023: Who the cap fits?
Dr. Iyoha John Darlington For a very long time I really have not written a piece in any local and foreign mainstream media in my capacity as a communicator on national and global issues. Some of you may think I have thrown in the towel! However, nothing could be further from the truth. I have […]
Championing a Greener Nigeria: Mr. Akande’s Vision for a Sustainable Future
By Anthony Akande As Nigeria grapples with the mounting consequences of environmental degradation—manifested in oil spills that ravage the Niger Delta, the relentless advance of desertification in the North, and the pervasive air pollution choking its bustling urban centers—a new generation of science-driven leaders is emerging with determination and resolve to confront these systemic threats […]
Elumelu: The audacity and tenacity of an opposition leader in House of Representatives
By Levinus Nwabughiogu Nothing short of a political tsunami was anticipated as an aftermath in the quagmire. The best, however, was a virulent political division or factionalism that would’ve lingered and perhaps, torn them into shreds and consequently weakened their unanimity on legislative resolutions. The effect, ultimately, would ‘ve also been an unending feast on them […]
