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 […]
Africa in the dawn of an epoch
By Clarius Ugwuoha THE COVID-19 pandemic was a wakeup call for Africa and the entire world – to innovate and change many archaic ways of doing things. This guarantees minimum impact on workforce and the entire populace in the face of sudden monumental lockdowns and other events of coordinate proportion. When the Human Immuno-deficiency Virus […]
Why LASTMA personnel are hated by many
By Kayode Ojewale The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918 – 2008), Russian writer and winner of Nobel Prize for Literature. EVERYONE, by default, has the tendency to either be good or bad, kind or unkind, human or heartless; no one is born a saint […]
Beyond the politics of COVID-19 vaccines
By Edwin Uhara SINCE the Federal Government’s intention to acquire and inoculate Nigerians with COVID-19 vaccines was made public, I have read several critical comments against the plan by some Nigerians opposing the move without proposing alternative solution to the pandemic in our country. Most of the opposing views are hinged on myths, conspiracy theories […]
ECONOMY: Time for diversification is now
The untold hardship faced by Nigerians today due to the high cost of foodstuff, goods and services and high rate of unemployment is a serious concern.
The many battles of Abubakar Malami
By Dahiru Maishanu The Attorney General, Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami is undoubtedly, the most traduced among his colleagues in the Cabinet of President Muhammadu Buhari. It has been an unrelenting volley of attacks from different foes and interests with divergent reasons but convergent motives and goals of bringing him down. I’m not unaware of […]
