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 […]
How divide and rule is destroying public universities
By Ishola Akindele Salami THIS piece will be highly offensive to many public university workers in Nigeria but since there is nothing more bitter than the truth, it has to be told. All I want to achieve with this, frankly speaking, is for public university staff to see how they have always been instrumental to […]
Buhari is repressing human rights – and getting away with it
By Kolawole Olaniyan PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari is failing to live up to his promises to ensure respect for human rights, obey the rule of law, and tackle corruption. Since assuming office in May 2015, Buhari’s government has consistently flouted constitutionally and internationally guaranteed human rights. The growing crackdown on peaceful dissent, and the signing into […]
‘Greedy’ Nigerian professors and their fat salaries
By Oludayo Tade THE perennial onslaught on public education has been taken to the next level by this administration with the statement by Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, that the bulk of the national budget on education is used to pay the salaries of 10,500 Professors in the public University system. Nwajiuba, in […]
Kogi at 30: The journey so far
“At 30, Kogi should be best known for its giant strides in terms of infrastructure and human capital development as against what is obtained today.”
Akwa Ibom and choice for the future
By Abasifreke Tobby LIKE success, choice is a very personal decision. It could either be good or bad and most assuredly, the pathway to boom or doom. But like it or not, humans must make a choice! In the race for tomorrow, choice becomes inevitable. Akwa Ibom State, peopled by forward-looking minds, has found itself […]
