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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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2023: Challenges of the South east

2023: Challenges of the South east

By Sunny Ikhioya WHO would have imagined that, in less than six years, people will be slaughtered like rams in the South east region of Nigeria, the way Boko Haram terrorists and “bandits” operate in the North? Who would have imagined this? What is this telling us? Every human being or society has the natural […]

America’s democracy and its deficits of substance

America’s democracy and its deficits of substance

By Charles Onunaiju NEXT month, between December 10 and 11, the United States presidency intends to convene what it called “leader’s summit for democracy.” According to a statement on the summit, which will hold virtually, President Joe Biden will use the platform “to rebuild our alliances with our democratic partners and allies, rallying the world […]

Political class is eating our tomorrow

Political class is eating our tomorrow

By Paul Odili Society grows when leaders plant trees whose shade they may never sit under — Greek Proverb  THIS tirade speaks for itself. The  political class in Nigeria has not demonstrated competence; it has no sense of national mission, ideology and, or commitment. It takes the people of Nigeria for granted. It assumes that […]

No amount of money builds a nation

No amount of money builds a nation

By Francis Ogbimi President Muhammadu Buhari, PMB, and his men and women in governmenthave again proved that no amount of money builds a nation. The national dailies every day since PMB became the President of Nigeria in May 2015 have one item about how Nigeria is trying to borrow billions of Dollars or how the […]

Why Ethiopia must not fall apart

Why Ethiopia must not fall apart

By Benjamin Ujumadu THE immediate and unmistakable consequence of the collapse of Libya in 2011 following the military intervention of the Western military alliance, NATO, was chaos in the country. With the destabilisation of Libya, arms and weapons from its unsecured armoury flowed across to the Sahel region and Nigeria, triggering brutal insurgencies, banditries and […]