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 […]
Opinion: That sponsored mischief against Gov Wike’s war against soot
Our attention has been drawn to an article titled: “Gov Wike and the Soot Scandal” published by Dr Ugoji Egbujo in his ‘Frank and Fair’ column, of the Vanguard Newspaper, January 22, 2022. Considering the obvious fact that this writer has attracted considerable opprobrium for his sometimes illogical offerings in the public space, we will resist the temptations to join issues with the snide and provocative innuendos in this obviously pervasive rant and go straight to the point.
Contrast and convergence in nation-building: a post mortem on apartheid and the lives of Frederik Willem De Klerk and Desmond Tutu
It was the Ancient Egyptians that entitled one of their intriguing pieces of literature “Book of the Dead”, adumbrating with rather awry poignancy, and the inevitable duel of humanity with mortality
The Magoro plan
Our paths first met in 1983. This writer was an intrepid and starry-eyed intern with the Nigeria Television Authority, NTA, Kaduna. The swashbuckling General Mohammed Magoro was Commandant of the Nigeria Army School of Infantry, NASI, at Jaji. He had graduated from the prestigious Bida Provincial School also known as Government College Bida.
Chukwuma Soludo and the challenge of managing expectations
She said he made love to her like an intellectual. In the political jargon of those days, the word ‘intellectual’ was an insult. It indicated someone who did not understand life and was cut off from the people — Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, p. 6 (1978).
OPINION: World Bank ‘exposes’ Uzodimma on fiscal performance in governance
Sometime in 2017, the world apex bank introduced a performance-based programme that would make them monitor and rate the fiscal performance of states.
