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 […]
Understanding Lagos parking levy
By TAYO OGUNBIYI Contrary to claims and counter-claims from different quarters and ‘authorities’, it needs to be stressed that the Lagos State Government has the power by law, through the Lagos State Park Authority, LASPA, to collect parking levies. Recall that a post that lately circulated on social media in which LASPA issued a letter signed […]
Harvests from Nigeria’s Global Economic Summit in New York
By GARBA SHEHU On Thursday last week, the Nigeria International Economic Partnership Forum was held in Manhattan, New York in the middle of the most important international event of the year: the United Nations General Assembly, UNGA. The Forum was enormously popular, attracting some 500 guests and delegates – almost double the expected number. While this […]
Understanding our register of voters
BY NICK DAZANG The price of liberty, the time-honoured saying goes, is eternal vigilance. Recently, the Coalition of United Political Parties, CUPP, demonstrated uncommon vigilance, steeped in patriotism, when it shrilly called attention of Nigerians to strenuous efforts by unscrupulous persons to undo our Register of Voters. The CUPP also alleged, among others, that a […]
A review of Al-Amin .M. El-Nasir’s THE WITHERING TONGUE
By Toyin Shittu THE BACKGROUND The collection contains five volumes of forty one (41) poems. Each volume has varying number of poems, with volume 3 having eighteen poems and volume 2 with the least (4). The volumes bear different titles based on their thematic preoccupations. Volume 1 is entitled ‘Homage’, volume 2 “My wages cannot […]
Women in the vanguard of Nigerian art
Women in the vanguard of Nigerian art
