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The US built world’s greatest card system

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 […]
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VIEWPOINT: Twitter’s thicket of thorns

VIEWPOINT: Twitter’s thicket of thorns

IT was a scorned Nigerian president that ordered the nationwide ban on the social media platform Twitter on June 4, 2021, and in a matter of hours, the ban was complete as a giant gag was slapped on Nigerians.

Between Tinubu and Buhari’s favoured successor

Between Tinubu and Buhari’s favoured successor

By Oludayo Tade The market for 2023 politics has been declared open by the son of Abibatu Mogaji who is also the ceremonial national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, BAT. The Asiwaju of Lagos State had visited the president to intimate him of his intention to vie for […]

Nondisclosure of status, a major challenge to control HIV

Nondisclosure of status, a major challenge to control HIV

By Carl Umegboro SINCE 2016, the World Health Organisation, WHO, has recommended that all people living with HIV, PLHIV, including children, adolescents, adults, pregnant and breastfeeding women, regardless of clinical status or CD4 cell count, be provided with antiretroviral therapy, ART, a prescription for controlling HIV.  Globally, about 27.5 million (26.5–27.7 million) people living with […]

Acts To Watch Out In 2022

Acts To Watch Out In 2022

By Agwuma Kingsley 2021 has been a good year in the Nigerian music landscape. It has been filled with ushering part of the most successful creators into larger music spaces, like Wizkid’s “Essence” alongside Tems made an impact on pop culture. The record also accompanied a remix with Justin Bieber on the album’s deluxe version, […]

How top 1st Republic politician influenced Shonekan to read law — Childhood friend

How top 1st Republic politician influenced Shonekan to read law — Childhood friend

•Gowon: Late Head of State chose to tread where many would not dare By Kennedy Mbele As tributes continued to pour in for Chief Ernest Shonekan, the nation’s 9th Head of State, who died on Tuesday, January 11, a former Nigerian leader, General Yakubu Gowon, says the deceased chose to tread where many would not dare. […]