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 […]
Justiciability of Chapter 2 of 1999 Constitution: Need for the Nigerian judicial system to be more proactive (4)
By Femi Falana Part three of this piece published on Monday concluded with a reference to the Violence Against Persons Act passed into law to eliminate violence in private and public life, among others. THE content of the Act is rich in its provisions as it covers most of the prevalent forms of violence in […]
IWD: Breaking the bias to further financial inclusion in Nigeria
By Debola Osibogun We are all too familiar with the gender biases in our society today. From birth, children are conditioned to play, behave, dress, and think a certain way based on their gender, with females perceived as the weaker sex. These biases have shaped the dreams and aspirations of some young women, inhibiting their […]
Concerning Buhari’s successor
By Segun Ige Considering the body of discourse – not to say doctrine – surrounding President Muhammadu Buhari’s possible successor, I could not but nip everything in the bud in terms of: one, identity politics; two, instability; and three, inequality. When it comes to identity politics, of course, I mean zonal politics, which is basically […]
Condemnation of the National Assembly’s rejection of bills seeking gender equality by Funmi Falana
Today, 8th March 2022 is the International Women’s Day but what exactly does an average Nigerian woman gets to celebrate?
The Christian and responsibility (2)
By Senator Ifeanyi Okowa The first part of this piece published on Friday posits that citizens are under obligation to obey the laws of the land THE rest of the population avoid paying tax and for the same reason that the Jews detested paying it – that governments are corrupt, wasteful, and inefficient. But the […]
