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 […]
Shareholding and corporate responsibility in public companies: Race to meet CAMA’s deadline
On August 7, 2020, President Muhammadu Buhari signed into law the Companies and Allied Matters Act 2020, repealing the Companies and Allied Matters Act of 2004. The new version of the Act came with attendant changes that required some getting used to. Some of these changes include the appointment of at least three independent directors, […]
Pro-ASUU protest songs of disappointment against PMB
By Oludayo Tade PUBLIC protests have become common feature in contemporary societies where citizens communicate their discontents in relation to government policies, actions and inactions. Public protest is a democratic platform for government to understand the feelings of her people and responsibly assuage their pains and displeasures. Through public protest, the public space is contested […]
Imperative of blueprints for presidential aspirants and candidates
A PRESIDENTIAL aspirant is a party member who desires to be the party’s flagbearer by effectively participating in the party’s presidential primaries while a candidate is the person who emerges successful in the party’s primaries conducted for that purpose.
Vote buying as clear and present danger
SHORTLY after Professor Attahiru Jega assumed office as the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in June 2010, his first major outing was a visit to the INEC state headquarters office in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. By the same token, shortly after Professor Mahmood Yakubu was inaugurated as INEC Chairman on October 21, 2015, he replicated Professor Jega’s pilgrimage with modifications.
A Word For Wike on Atiku and Okowa
By Josh Ekpe Governor Nyesom Wike returned from yet another foreign trip on Friday and immediately set the polity on fire with yet another raucous outpouring against Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa and other imaginary enemies within his Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. After a careful study of the insinuations and assertions by Mr […]
