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The US built world’s greatest card system

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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How clampdown on BDC operators hurts economy in the North

How clampdown on BDC operators hurts economy in the North

By Kennedy John THE importance of Bureau De Change, BDC, operators in Nigeria’s Foreign Exchange, FX, market can’t be overemphasised. In a dollar-dependent economy such as ours, their existence and operations have become part of the main arteries that keep the economy running. Ever since the entry of BDC operators in the financial space, the FX […]

Insecurity: Need for sustained military and intelligence operations

Insecurity: Need for sustained military and intelligence operations

By Sunday Onyemaechi Eze ..Security is development; without security, there can be no development— Robert McNamara IT is no longer news that the security challenges confronting the nation have assumed a frightening and worrisome dimension. Unarguably, they are becoming intractable by the day. The gnawing fear and apprehension is palpable. It is choking to say […]

In celebration of steady flight amidst turbulence [opinion]

In celebration of steady flight amidst turbulence [opinion]

By Etim Ukpanah Turbulence is  regular happenstance in air travel which is disturbance from a calmer state by various forces and the common source of turbulence in air travel are mountains, jet streams and storms. While some airlines have experienced turbulence, one airline that has survived a COVID-19 induced economic turbulence is Ibom Air. Not only […]

OPINION: All fingers point to Osinbajo as worthy President for 2023

OPINION: All fingers point to Osinbajo as worthy President for 2023

Ibrahim Doma Conversations around the race for the 2023 presidential election has commenced with several pundits coming up with permutations and likely candidates to emerge as the nation’s President in the next electoral cycle. In a conversation on Arise News monitored today based on a list of eminent Nigerians likely to emerge president in 2023 […]

Captain Hosa flies again!

Captain Hosa flies again!

By Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu A young boy, not the eldest child, from an average home in a rough neighborhood in Benin, an ancient city that is the capital of the old Benin Empire which has been relegated to the status of a minority group in the country Nigeria, could have been limited by this background. […]