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 […]
Campaign of calumny over bad roads in Ogun state
By Femi Adeniyi It is indeed shocking to see the sheer amount of resources and strength that some people will exert all in the name of propaganda. The ones you think you want to deceive with these ludicrous claims and positions have grown beyond these, the people are not pushed by emotions anymore, the realities […]
Pray for followers of Christ only, patriotic prayer is ungodly
By Simon Ifeanyi Ezeh Why should we only pray for followers of Christ in Nigeria and not the entire political space called Nigeria, including everyone and everything in it? Shouldn’t we be patriotic and also pray for the peace and prosperity of Nigeria, as Christians or more appropriately, as followers of Christ? Since the mega […]
Right of Reply: Okoh Aihe’s error on the NITDA Bill
In March 2021, the Director-General, National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA, Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, proposed the realignment of the Agency’s Act with “tenets and ideals of the fourth Industrial Revolution” and Nigeria’s Digital Economy Policy.
Smoking in Nollywood and the Next Generation of Nigerian Youths
What seemed like an insignificant issue in 2007, when tobacco control activists screened 10 randomly-selected movies and found out that the tobacco industry has been using Nollywood to promote tobacco, smoking has grown into a mega monster.
Being Cerebral and Being Prolific: the Quadrangle of an Academic
A truism in scholarship which has become a slogan is: PUBLISH or PERISH! Scholars are celebrated primarily for their intellectual output, and this explains why research is one of the three essential duties of academics—with the two others being teaching and social services. The task of publishing an academic work is onerous.
