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 […]
The parties and their strengths
By SOLA EBISENI AS the race for the office of the President of Nigeria fiercely rages, the hurdles before the parties are such that no one could reasonably predict who the Amusan would invariably be. The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is the most enduring and resilient political party, yet this very strength is its albatross […]
Need for Nigeria’s education system to adopt technology
By KEHINDE ONI The exchange of knowledge from one generation to the other dates back as far as 1801, when large pieces of slate were hung on school walls as a means of providing information to large audiences. Education then graduated to the use of blackboard in the mid-19th century, then the whiteboards came into […]
Fighting ASUU for the soul of public universities
By OLUDAYO TADE After giving the Federal Government of Nigeria 14-month strike notice (December 2020 – February 14, 2022), the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, asked her members to stop teaching to force government to fund public universities and sign a renegotiated agreement. The six months roll-over strike changed to total and indefinite strike […]
Focus on Rt.Hon Marcus Onobun’s Legislative savvy
By Amb. Ayemere Michael On Thursday, October 12th, 2020, history was made as Marcus Onobun, emerged Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly, the youngest person to occupy the position in the acclaimed Heartbeat State. Since his emergence as the Speaker of the 7th Assembly of the legislature, he has stamped his authority on the […]
War on terror and the 2023 elections
By NICK DAZANG Until recently, terrorists, kidnappers, and bandits of all colourations held large swathes of territory in the Northern part of the country. They killed, maimed, abducted and indecently assaulted their victims with abandon and wicked glee. In some states, they ran parallel governments, hoisting their miserable flags, collecting taxes by brute force and […]
