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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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Ndigbo on the verge of self-inflicted destructions

Ndigbo on the verge of self-inflicted destructions

By Asikason Jonathan ARE you not entertained? Is this not why you are here?” Those memorable lines from Maximus Decimus Meridius in “Gladiator” come to mind as a clip of Dr. Chike Akunyili’s brush with death hit the cyberspace. While it’s still under the realm of conjecture who the actual killers are, one critical message […]

2023: Challenge before youths, women and the elite [OPINION]

2023: Challenge before youths, women and the elite [OPINION]

THE state of things: Saturday, July 24, 2021 was instructive. I left my house armed with my voter’s card, my breakfast of hot pap and moin-moin, my laptop, iPad and power banks, ready for a long day. I was committed to casting my vote in the Lagos State local government elections.

After Northern & Southern Governors butting of heads: What next?

After Northern & Southern Governors butting of heads: What next?

Hakeem Baba Ahmed , the petulant spokesman of the Northern  Elders Forum , NEF , literally threw gasoline into the fire already ignited by the southern governors Enugu declaration that the presidency must return to the south in 2023 based on the gentleman’s agreement entered into between northern and southern politicians during 1994/5 national conference.

Official refusal to declare bandits as terrorists

Official refusal to declare bandits as terrorists

By Femi Falana IT is public knowledge that the dangerous criminal elements who kidnapped the Chibok and Dapchi secondary school girls in the North-East Zone in 2014 and 2017 respectively were not referred to as bandits. They were called terrorists by the Federal Government and the media. The description was correct as the abductions carried […]