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 […]
Plateau of crises and death
By Dakuku Peterside PLATEAU State is named plateau for a reason. It is approximately the centre of Nigeria and the midpoint between Christian and Muslim civilisations in Nigeria, convergence between settlers and indigenous people, battleground between farmers and herders, and a clash point between indigenous culture and foreign civilisation. For this and other reasons, it […]
PIA’s 3% community allocation and Mulade Sheriff’s propositions
By Jerome-Mario Utomi UNDOUBTEDLY, we live in a nation where public leadership scorns ideas from citizens and sees same as a form of distraction to public policies. Again, ours is a country where grit, tenacity, perseverance coming from far-sighted citizens is considered divisive. Such ill-considerations by the public office holders notwithstanding, there appears to be […]
Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Exportation to Africa
By Oye Owolewa THE 37th American President, Richard Milhous Nixon in a speech in 1968 after nomination urged Americans thus: “let us begin by committing to the truth, to see it like it is and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth and live with the truth. That’s what […]
MultiChoice Nigeria, Tax Tribunal Ruling: Issues and Doubts
By Mohammed Taofiq Abdulrazaq The Multichoice (Nigeria) Ltd case before the Tax Appeal Tribunal (TAT) confirms that we are in interesting tax times. The TAT in the Lagos Zone held at Lagos recent ruling raises fundamental doubts and issues of taxation in Suit No: TAT/LZ/CIT/062/2021 dated the 24th day of August 2021. In the quest […]
The President’s right to medical attention abroad and the law
By Utum Eteng The 37th American President, Richard Milhous Nixon in a speech in 1968 after nomination urged Americans thus: “let us begin by committing to the truth, to see it like it is and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth and live with the truth. That’s what […]
