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 […]
Nigeria in distress: Solutions are in the marketing communications space?
By Sunday Odiaka LOOKING at the increasing challenges bedeviling Nigeria, there is no sense denying the fact that a cloud of uncertainty hangs around her continuous existence as an independent state. Unemployment rate, for instance, is estimated to be 33 per cent this year, with youth unemployment and underemployment specifically pegged at 42 percent and […]
Challenges of financing sustainable growth
By Abbe El-Josef BEYOND the entrepreneurial dreams of the founders and sponsors of Small, and Medium Enterprises, SMEs, the role that development banks play in the economies of nations in which they operate is critical. According to UNCTAD, formal MSMEs contribute 40 per cent of GDP in emerging economies. That figure is most likely to […]
Do Nigerians really have money in Pension?
By Munachino Obinna Eze There is a popular misconception about saving for the future, particularly through pension schemes. Those who save for the future start to count their lose at the point of making those savings giving a number of factors, hence, it is a wise decision to rather invest for the future. According to […]
Securing our future through proper parenting
By Olusegun Fashakin MOVING through the streets in our communities, we find members of each home fairly represented in various activities of livelihood. From office spaces to market squares, there is one member of a family or another taking roles and making decisions. The outcome of these interactions predict the stability of the space they […]
LASTMA at 21: How far so far?
By Kayode Ojewale HANDLING traffic challenges posed by a megametropolitan city like Lagos could be overwhelming and to contain this, the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), was established 21 years ago in order to bring sanity and orderliness to Lagos roads. LASTMA, on July 15, 2020, became twenty one years since its establishment. The […]
