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 […]
Orubebe’s award of excellence
By Ekanpou Enewaridideke THE head of Elder Godsday Orubebe is always correct but the heads of some people in this world are not always correct. People no longer speak and do ‘straight things’ as Gabriel Okara would have it conveyed in its strict transliterative sense in the novel: The Voice. Because straight things are no longer spoken […]
My Dakkada experience
By Adeyemi Saka I HAVE read and heard a lot about the many great strides recorded so far by Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State which I can rightly call the “Dakkada Revolution” and I had a peep into what awaits me from Lagos with my first hand encounter of the effectiveness of Ibom Air […]
Dreaming as a single family: A reflection on the Pope’s Encyclical
By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie My father, a lovely and loving man, died unexpectedly in June 2020. My mother and six of us children were left heartbroken. Then, in March, on my father’s birthday, my beloved mother also died unexpectedly. I am still unable to absorb it all; it feels like living in a novel whose […]
2023: Why you cannot push Marafa aside in Zamfara
By Dahiru Samaila Mafara Like or hate him, Senator Kabiru Garba Marafa has redefined the country’s political landscape with his stand on internal democracy in political parties as demonstrated in the build up to the 2019 general elections. Ahead of the 2019 general elections, Marafa, who was then representing the Zamfara Central Senatorial District, at […]
THE BENIN ARTIFACTS AS HEIRLOOM OF THE BENIN PEOPLE.
By: Washington Osa Osifo, Ph.D. Our artifacts remind us of who we are. They tell more stories about our civilization than any attempt at intellectual historical reconstruction. They are indeed, active components of our present! We speak to the artifacts and they speak to us in mutually decodable idioms! This underscores the imperative of returning […]
