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 […]
‘In God’s Name’
HUMAN beings do hideous things. And they visit these horrible things to their kind under the pretext that they are doing so on God’s behalf. Or that they are fighting for Him.
Delta: Still searching for democratic bearing, 24 years after
BY May 29, 2023, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, will be counting 24 years of governorship in Delta State. Chief James Ibori, who was the second civilian governor of the state, handed over state power to Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan in 2007. Uduaghan took the state through some of its low and turbulent moments in history.
Soludo’s ‘it is not broken’ and Anambra in distress
By Chima Christian PROFESSOR Charles Chukwuma Soludo’s public disclosure that he inherited a N120 billion debt from Willie Obiano is troubling. Yet it rightly elicits very little public sympathy. Like pregnancy that cannot be covered for so long, Governor Obiano’s profligacy became manifest in the first few months of his administration. Some of us did […]
PDP GUBER TICKET FOR ENUGU STATE? PETER MBAH IS IT!
By Ogonna Omada Time is ticking and soon the primaries to elect the flagbearer of PDP will take place. Let’s weigh then Who picks the ticket in Enugu state? The social media have been agog with permutations. The next governor of Enugu state shall emerge on May 25 in Enugu state. Undoubtedly! It is a […]
DEBORAH: Crossing the Red Lines
In the light of the murder of Deborah Emmanuel, there has been much talk about the “crossing of red lines” by members of the Muslim community.
