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 other side of the ‘cabal’
By Augusta Nnadi POLITICAL parties in Nigeria are like the mysterious stranger that you know about, yet cannot fully understand. You know they exist, they occupy your thoughts, you know they are important and they influence your reality, but you are not entirely sure what they do or what role they play. You are blinded by […]
Man shall not live by bread alone
By Segun Ige AS we grapple with high prices of bread, which is perhaps Nigeria’s most staple and flexible food, it’s important we don’t lose sight of the present political undercurrents potentially shaping the country into what the next four years would look like. First, the fact that old faces are yet surfacing in the […]
May Nigeria never experience this 9th National Assembly again
By Michael Owhoko IN the absence of eleventh hour miracle, when an assessment of performance of the executive arm of government will be carried out on May 29 next year, using the economy, security and corruption as index, Muhammadu Buhari may likely go down as a failed president. If this happens, the legislative organ of […]
Where are the houses?
TO decorate man’s often difficult journey through life a bit, to dip what often proves a devastating journey into some dignity, food, shelter and clothing have historically been recognised as irreducibly relevant.
Nyesom Wike: A hero and his burden
By SOLA EBISENI THE declaration of Ezenwo Nyesom Wike for the office of the President of Nigeria was the climax of a political career which he effectively launched at the resumption of democratic rule in 1999 and has since experienced no dull moment. The 59 years old Ikwere-born lawyer who was called to the Bar in […]
