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 […]
Nnamdi Kanu and matters arising
By Sunny Ikhioya THE successful tracking down and arrest of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has shown that the Nigerian security agencies can take on the insurgents threatening the country’s existence- in whatever form they present themselves- and successfully bring them to justice. Why they have refused to use the […]
Calling on Nigerian women to reunite the nation
By Zubaida Baba Ibrahim Whenever the conversation of women being in control, or leading a nation or even a cause arises, there are half-witted remarks such as ‘emotional’ ‘disunited’ and ‘irrational’ that are thrown to offset the whole idea. However, in real-time I have never seen a group that are more irrational like the menfolk. […]
Stimulating dollar and energetic inflows
By Arize Nwobu CREATIVE and innovative policies help to drive economic growth and development. Crises spur critical thinking and creativity whereby new and useful ideas and policies are developed for the overall success of organisations and economies. The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, recently introduced the “naira-4-dollar” policy as a part measure in response to dollar […]
2023: Let there be no party elections
By Francis Ogbimi BILL Powell (Newsweek Magazine, June 21, 1999) described a failed nation as one that possesses the following, among other features: 1) It is unable to pay the salaries of workers; 2) It is a nation that is unable to collect taxes; 3) It is overwhelmed by corruption, decadence and decay; and 4) […]
The sociology, law and praxis of grazing reserves in Nigeria
By Sola Ebiseni IN a memorandum on “Pastoralist-Farmers’ Conflicts and the Search for Peaceful Resolution” published in January 2018, some prominent Nigerians of northern extraction, notably, Professor Ibrahim Gambari, the present Chief of Staff to President Buhari and Professor Attahiru Jega, immediate past Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, grazing reserves are defined as […]
