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 […]
Beyond the theatrics: An open letter to Wike
By Rahman Owokoniran Your excellency Gov. Nyesom Wike, it is about time to turn the page. If these daily episodes on social media are jokes, they are no longer funny. Devoted Party members and well-meaning voters alike are genuinely worried about your outbursts either concerning our presidential candidate’s delayed outreach to your team or other […]
Timiebi’s first letter from prison
CATAPULTED by numerous items on my mind – very much unlike Wole Soyinka in his own seminal work, THE MAN DIED, when he was ‘prompted by two items on his table – I sat in my library engrossed in creative meditations, exercises, and mental search for communicative resources to cast a particular character in my new work when four men who introduced themselves as King Robert Ebizimor, High Chief Ekpemupolo Thomas Osen, Teiyeibo Agbeotu and Chief Coach Suoye Lokoja came to me with a letter
I still believe in Buhari – Femi Adesina
I still believe in Buhari – Femi Adesina
Battling with terrorism under Buhari
By SEGUN IGE NO doubt terrorism has taken different shades and sizes under the Buhari administration, ranging from political, economic and even administrative. The difficulty arising from nipping in the bud these manifestations of terrorism derives from the overshadowing insecurity challenge immersing the polity, which is a fatal distraction to nation-building and national development after […]
The scam in Nigerian education
By Ganiu Bamgbose (PhD) While the word “scam” means a dishonest scheme or fraud, this lexical item has a semantic extension in Nigeria to mean anything irrelevant or insignificant. Common on the lips of young Nigerians is the expression, “school na scam” (schooling is a scam). While many adults might silence them for saying this, […]
