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 […]
APC, the crisis and the way out
By Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim THE fastest way out for the APC crisis is to respect its constitution. Here is why? Our great party the APC is embroiled in a crisis which if not swiftly handled may lead to its destruction. Worse still, prolonged instability in the ruling party may complicate the many challenges the country is […]
Russia, US and China: Birds of same feather
By Sunny Ikhioya Reactions have continued to trail the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. What we are seeing is like a Hollywood fast-action film, the conclusion of which will determine where the superpowers stand against lesser countries. It will determine whether the United Nations, UN, charter will have to be re-examined, especially as it concerns […]
Nigeria, humbler government and economic development
HISTORY shows that politicians do not readily build nations. Kings ruled European nations for almost 2000 years. European nations were hungry and chaotic societies till Western industrialisation which began in England(1770-1850).
Journalists in war fields
The other day, a British correspondent, Stuart Ramsay, working with SkyNews along with four of his colleagues was shot and wounded after he came under fire in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war
Nigeria, humbler government and economic development
History shows that politicians do not readily build nations. Kings ruled European nations for almost 2000 years. European nations were hungry and chaotic societies till the Western industrialisation which began in England(1770-1850)
