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 […]
El-Rufai and memories of LIDICE
By Nick Dazang ON June 10, 1942, LIDICE, a town in former Czechoslovakia, was completely destroyed on the orders of Adolph Hitler and Heinrich Himmler. The reason for LIDICE’s destruction was in reprisal for the assassination of Reich Protector and Governor of the strategic Bohemia and Moravia, Reinhard Heydrich. Reinhard Heydrich went by several sobriquets […]
Yahaya Bello: Politicisation of an innocent, generous gesture
By Hafsat Ibrahim Prejudice is an opinion without judgement, one can still be heavily criticised for being kind. The fact that we are not equally gifted or blessed is an opportunity for the rich to give charity as giving charity to the deserving is not just charity but justice. In a video that went viral […]
PMB, this is your assessment report at 7
PMB, this is your assessment report at 7
DELTA 2023: Ogboru’s mandate
By Dennis Akpotu DELTA State is a cosmopolitan state comprising multi-ethnic entities in the three senatorial districts that make up the state. By the unwritten understanding of the ruling party, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, it is the turn of the Delta Central Senatorial District to produce the next governor. I strongly believe every other political […]
THE BUHARI LEGACIES: A word of caution
By Peicy Owaiye So, first things first. When Bishop Hassan Matthew Kukah, in his recent Easter homily, asserted that the country is “broken” under President Muhammadu Buhari’s watch, is he by any stretch of the imagination implying that it was “fixed” before Buhari assumed power in 2015? This is the trend of the commentary that […]
