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 National Movement PDP missed in Chimaroke Nnamani as VP
Mr. Peter Obi is currently on the air. Even if he doesn’t win the Presidential election, he has won the hearts and hopes of Nigerians, particularly those not held to the cleavages of the past. Obi has inspired a new generation of Nigerian youths who have now realized the need to rise up and build a better Nigeria.
Adieu Nigeria’s icon of positive activism Tony Uranta (1953-2021)
On Friday 27th May, 2022 the Nigerian state laid to rest one of its veteran social activists, patriots and inveterate nationalists, Comrade Anthony Ipriye Uranta in his hometown, Queenstown, Opobo in Rivers State
Why INEC should extend voter registration
By Nick Dazang A CREDIBLE register of voters is the superstructure on which transparent and acceptable elections are anchored. The framers of our constitution recognized this axiom in lucidly setting out the mascular mandate of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. The Electoral Act 2022, drawing its afflatus and strength from the Constitution further elucidates […]
Solar power, potent solution to Nigeria’s energy crisis
By Umar Farouk Ahmad We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using nature’s inexhaustible sources of energy – sun, wind and tide.… I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait […]
Adoke, Federal Government and OPL 245
IN what is quickly becoming a consistent pattern in the Federal Government’s serial attempts to ‘nail’ the immediate past Attorney- General of the Federation, Mohammed Bello Adoke, in connection with his role in the resolution of the Oil Prospecting Licence, OPL, 245 saga, a British Court, recently threw out the government’s bid to compel a British Bank, JP Morgan Chase, to refund about U$1.1 billion which the latter had paid out on behalf of the Government, to Malabu Oil and Gas Co. Ltd, between 2011 and 2013.
