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 […]
The era of lame-duck is here (4)
By Eric Teniola Continuing from last week, the piece explains why the Cabinet Secretariat is considered the heartbeat of government and why it is one of the most guarded departments in the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation FROM 1996 to 2007, top officials that have served in that Cabinet Secretariat included […]
Presidential combinations: The devil and the deep blue sea
By SOLA EBISENI THE irony of the 2023 presidential race is that the clearer the coast, the cloudier the sky. Nigerians have never been so confused and disunited as they are under the Muhammadu Buhari administration, so much that mutual fears and misunderstanding rule the polity. The nation itself, if it still exists, is a shadow […]
Democracy and the burden of power balance
IT is no longer news that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has announced his choice of running mate. But long before he did the issue had elicited public interest, concerns, debates and arguments of national proportion.
Nigerians need social protection
THAT out of a population of over 200 million citizens, about 91 million remain poor underlines the imperative of social protection. According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, social protection is a set of interventions whose objective is to reduce social and economic risk and vulnerability, and alleviate extreme poverty and deprivation.
Journalism Taken for Peanut?
By Inaolaji Olayode The world over, journalism is not a mere profession that can be consigned to the dustbin. The quota being contributed by the media/press in the advancement of a country is immense. It is not hyperbolic to stress that journalists are the light of the world; they are, indeed, painstakingly transforming our nation […]
