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 […]
IPOB’s congregation of crocodiles
By Kenechukwu Obiezu THE human experience of change is one conceived and consummated in the crucible of conflict. Change has hardly ever happened without some form of conflict, whether it rages within humans and systems or spills outside to pull others in. Statis has ever been hardly culled without the conspiracy of the crucible. Thus, it […]
Buhari and the 2023 elections
By NICK DAZANG THERE is no gain saying it: President Muhammadu Buhari and his governing All Progressives Congress, APC, are the chief beneficiaries of credible elections in Nigeria. Thanks to further introduction of technology in the electoral process through the Smart Card Reader, SCR, and the Permanent Voter Card, PVC, which proved to be game changers, […]
Why APC should pick Barr. Morayo Lebi as Ondo south senatorial candidate
By Aro Samuel What else do we need as a party, to pick a candidate, other than possession of needed quality for the task, empathy for the people, loyalty, commitment and contributions to the party, accountability, popularity and acceptability? Obviously, nothing to add! Show me a man in the whole of Ondo South that can […]
FASHOLA: The hidden silver bullet in APC’s armoury?
By Sulaimon Ajibade Ahead of the next general elections, there is a lot of politicking among political parties in Nigeria as they all try to fix the jigsaw puzzle which sets up the list of final contenders for the presidential polls. In the meantime, the party primaries take centre stage and that is where each […]
Did Amaechi use mercenaries to stop blood on streets of Rivers?
When governor Nasir Elrufai of Kaduna state made the call for foreign mercenaries to be recruited to quell the security crisis in his Kaduna state and probably other parts of the northeast, few questions agitated minds.
