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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 the Twitter ban

By Adewale Kupoluyi The media have been awash with the Federal Government’s suspension of the operations of Twitter in Nigeria. That sensitive decision has since been seriously generating mixed feelings among the people going by the influence that Twitter wields within the social media world.  The suspension, which was initially referred to as ‘indefinite’, was […]

How courts closure aids human rights violations in Nigeria

By Festus Ogun FOR close to two months now, courts all over the country have been under lock and key.  On April 6, 2021 judicial workers under the aegis of Judicial Staff Union of Nigeria, JUSUN, embarked on an indefinite nationwide strike to push for the implementation of financial autonomy for the judiciary. It is […]

Examining arts as a unifying element [opinion]

By Asiwaju Adekanmbi Olufemi ARCHAELOGISTS and anthropologists heavily rely on arts and artefacts to fill in the blanks in their study of man’s way of life. Arts express the strength of human imagination and provide the cultural trajectory of people’s culture and societies. Hence, arts is the window to our past and the time capsule […]

Egypt’s journey of Pan-Africanism: A glance at South Sudan

By Bukar Mohammed Atiyaye  Pan-Africanism is a global movement aimed at encouraging and strengthening unity between all Africans, including those in diaspora that are of African descent. It promotes peace and prosperity while boldly stressing that Africans don’t only share a common history, but a common destiny, and that unity of all those of African […]

ETO Call –up system: An intervention too good to fail

By Sesan Onileimo DESPITE having the most robust port infrastructure in the sub-region, Nigerian port users continue to struggle with huge economic costs due to inefficiencies arising from unpropitious export and import processes. As landlord, the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) over the years has made several interventions to resolve the incidence of heavy vehicular and […]

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