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 […]
Moment of truth as Muslim-Muslim Presidential ticket tests Nigeria’s unity
By magnus Onyibe Right now,the choice of presidential and Vice Presidential candidates for the 2023 general elections in Nigeria is the number one horror afflicting the psyche of Nigerians. It is so much so that if a nation wide public opinion were to be conducted right now, the tendency that majority of Nigerians would tick-off […]
A Peter Obi truth
By Chuks Iloegbunam An excerpt from The Promise of a New Era, a book by Chuks Iloegbunam out in August 2022. UNTIL the run up to the 2003 general elections, I was unaware of Peter Obi’s existence. Our first meeting was in Asaba late in 2002, when Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu led an APGA delegation on […]
Disruptive change-the way forward for Abia (part 1)
Enyinnaya Chima Nwafor It is a very well-known fact that Abia State, despite its geographical, human, material, and reputational advantages, is yet to achieve its full potential as a premium investment and habitational destination in Nigeria. The creation of Abia from Imo State 31 years ago, brought so much hope to Abia’s founding fathers, who […]
Tinubu-Shettima Ticket: Much ado about religion
The rumpus trailing the announcement of the erstwhile governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima, as Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s running mate was and still is raging on ferociously across the length and breadth of our country.
Population explosion: Bane or boon?
By Nick Dazang MONDAY last week was World Population Day. On that auspicious day, the United Nations, UN, released the 2022 World Population Proposals. The proposals were predicated on a report prepared by the Population Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs. The report projected that global population will reach the eight billion […]
