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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 […]
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On female bodies and the illusion of safe spaces in Nigeria

By Deborah Adeojo AS public gaze and feminist rage are directed towards seeking justice for Uwa, a 22-year-old undergraduate, raped and left for dead in an assumed safe space, a church building, it is crucial to re-engage the illusion of safe spaces for female bodies in Nigeria. Her death is a classic reminder that the […]

[Opinion] In support of ban on open grazing in Southern Nigeria

By Sunday Onyemaechi Eze  Open grazing of cattle is a grave source of conflict between farmers and the herders throughout the country. The rate at which the clashes regularly occur is very alarming and indeed unsettling. This ever- rising conflict has become a notorious national tragedy which has failed to draw the deserved urgent attention […]

EFCC’s race to sustainable war against graft

By Erasmus Ikhide IT will certainly call for celebration if the dreaded anti-corruption agency in Nigeria is able to achieve the remarkable feat of zero-graft society, where cyber criminals and politicians no longer exploit the weak and render national institutions prostrate. Indeed, the currents efforts by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to achieve […]

Marcus Onobun: A ‘Shy’ Speaker in the Limelight

By Gabriel Benjamin People complain about ageing, but there’s a lot to be said about the wisdom gained from living for many years. The natal day of Rt. Hon. Marcus Onobun, the Speaker, Edo State House of Assembly, offers a chance to reflect on the past, contemplate the present, and look toward a future indelibly […]

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