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 […]
2023: Why I will not accept aspirants’ offers to be VP
By Professor Babagana Zulum (Below was part Governor Zulum’s remark when he accepted nomination as candidate of the APC in Borno for the 2023 governorship:) Only at the weekend, more than 30 youths were killed around Kala-Balge. This should remind us of the reality of our problems and the need to deliberately unite ourselves towards […]
EJELE: An aspiring senator good on pulpit, grounded in grassroots politics
EJELE: An aspiring senator good on pulpit, grounded in grassroots politics
Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola: The Untiring Progressive Idealist @65
By Erasmus Ikhide THE American influential journal, Imprimis, has as its motto: ‘Ideas have consequences. That’s the plank upon which Comrade Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola – born May 25, 1957 – has been engaging and driving the civil society and governance enterprises each step of the way. As a philosopher ideologue, an embodiment of true […]
Good night our Sango, the ultimate revolutionary!
SS – Segun Sango (born Segun Aderemi) wrote his own epitaph. He dreamt of the working-class socialist revolution; he spoke and worked for it, and he lived an exemplary life of a true revolutionist.
Encomiums for Gov Abiodun as new 2.5km Arepo road comes on stream
By Abdul-Yekin Alli FOR residents of Journalists’ Estate, Arepo, and other adjourning communities off the Lagos -Ibadan Expressway, their present ecstatic mood over the ‘birthing’ of a dualised 2.5km road can aptly be captured in Psalm 30 verse 5, which reads: ”Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning”. This Biblical […]
