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 […]
No work, no pay: Implications on national development
By VICTOR ECOMA The very distinguished British jurist, Lord Denning gave a legal definition of strike as a phenomenon of employment relationship with set objectives of improving wages of workers or conditions of employment, terms of employment or conditions of work. He further maintained that it is failure of collective bargaining that justifies workers resort […]
The unreported impact of the lingering ASUU strike
By RASHEEDAT SHUAIB NOTHING can be more shocking than learning that the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has embarked on not less than 16 industrial actions between 1999 and 2022. For those who may not know, a major factor prompting our university lecturers to be laying down their tools intermittently is the failure of […]
ASUU and the future of the university system
By INNOCENT OHIAMBE Following the recent press briefing by the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu that agreement has been reached with all staff unions in our universities, polytechnics and colleges of education except the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, public attention has been focused on ASUU and its annual ritual of strikes. It […]
Beyond Shettima as C-in-C
By IMMAN EKPE ALL Progressives Congress, APC, vice presidential candidate, Senator Kashim Shettima is again making news after delegating the management of the economy to his supposed principal, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and taking up for himself, the role of Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces should they win the 2023 presidential election. His assertion is against […]
Obasanjo and his 2023 national agenda
By SOLA EBISENI LIKE him or not, Olusegun Matthew Okikiola Ogunboye Aremu Obasanjo, veteran of wars, former Nigerian Military Head of State, eight years elected President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is an enigma. According to Shakespeare, in Twelfth Night: “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ’em”. For […]
