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 […]
Sound Sultan exits Motherland as bushmeat hunts the hunter
By Oludayo Tade Born on November 27, 1976 Olanrewaju Fasasi popularly known as Sound Sultan, SS, died on July 11, 2021 after succumbing to throat cancer in the United States of America. He left the world at a time that Nigeria is experiencing one of his predicted outcomes of callous leadership. Sound Sultan is a […]
Nigeria @ 60 and the sin of restructuring
By Segun Ige In Dependence, a novel written by Sarah Ladipo Manyika, is stylistically patterned after the thematic thrusts of aboriginal African writers, namely: doyen of modern African literature, Chinua Achebe. The extensive borrowing and intersexuality of the Achebean aesthetics is a clear fact of the perennial embattled reconciliation overture between the Western and Eastern […]
Resolving the Nigerian curse
By Sunny Ikhioya NO challenge will be too difficult to overcome for a people united. Have you noticed how the #EndSARS protest is spreading? In trying to find solutions to the myriad of problems facing this nation, it is important that we consider all options available. In doing this, we should look at affliction or […]
Loopholes in the proposed Electoral Act
The electoral system in Nigeria is like the traditional wrestling common to most parts of Nigeria. To non-Nigerian observers, they can place a bet that rules do not govern elections, but to the politically discerning persons, they see rules governed by regulations observed in the breach.
Between Buhari’s unfulfilled promises and his media managers
By Godwin Osademe WHEN William Shakespeare, in his play entitled Macbeth, made this profound quotation: “The voice kept crying, ‘Sleep no more!’ to everyone in the house. Macbeth has murdered sleep, and therefore Macbeth will sleep no more.” Act 11 Scene 11, he meant that some decisions and actions carry predictable or unpredictable consequences. In […]
