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 […]
Kogi: Bello’s Midas touch as varsity, others get 100% accreditation
By Boluwaji Obahopo, LOKOJA Education is the bedrock of any development a society can yearn for. It is in realisation of this important role of education, that Governor Yahaya Bello set his priority right from the very beginning as to what he wanted to achieve for the people of Kogi State. Six years down the […]
Mysticism, Activism and Christianity: Why pray if you can work?
Mysticism, Activism and Christianity: Why pray if you can work?
My Role as Ogbu-oja and Minstrel during the Morehouse College Glee Club tour of Nigeria
I played the oja to the intro of Prof Laz Ekwueme’s “Obi Dimkpa”. This music urges one to “move about with a brave heart”. There is no Western musical instrument I know which could have introduced the music better.
Toasting Babes with Onitsha Market Literature
Onitsha Market Literature has just struck my medulla oblongata. Nothing can ever be sweeter than Onitsha market books.
Lagos and imperatives of environmental rebirth
CLEANER environment is among the yardsticks for ranking cities and for attracting multinational investors. Since it came on board in 2019, the Babajide Sanwo-Olu administration has demonstrated clear willingness to enhance improvement in the state of Lagos environment. One of the earliest actions of Governor Sanwo-Olu was the signing of his first Executive Order to address sanitation as well as cleaning of drainage channels in the state.
