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 […]
DEMOCRACY, SOVEREIGNTY AND A UNITED NIGERIA: Is right to self-determination a viable option?
By Olisa Enebeli Imegwu Wherever and whenever a people or a society consciously acquiesces in the denial of justice in a representative democracy, the following are bound to occur. Corruption of the institutions of Governance, Nepotism/Tribalism, Politicization of the Traditional Institution of Governance. The aberration of patriotism which culminates to the waning of the quest […]
Living dangerously
By Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi In the year 2020, during the COVID19 lockdowns, I got a call from an NGO working with young people in Nigeria. Someone had contacted them to draw attention to the plight of a female student in a tertiary institution who was being blackmailed by one of her classmates. She had been manipulated […]
The Pastor and the Bishop: Something good for a change
By Dele Sobowale “To every cloud there is frequently a silver lining” – J Bosswell, the biographer of Dr Johnson, once said “this our world is a comedy to those who think; a tragedy to those who feel.” I frequently find myself swinging between the extremes of finding Nigerian situation funny or tragic. Today, two […]
Peter Mbah and Igbo contribution to national growth
By Alex Chukwuma South-Eastern Nigeria is critical to the growth of Nigeria’s economy. That is why the likes of Peter Mbah, who was born half a century ago to the family of Chief Gilbert Mbah in Owo, Nkanu East Local Government Area of Enugu State is in the business of creating indigenous firms. Named Peter […]
Delta 2023: It’s between development and malice
PDP for the 2023 governorship flag bearer is a contention between the need for the development of the state and the need for vengeance.
