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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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CBN, FAAC and a governor’s ‘misinformation’ [opinion]

By Arize Nwobu The power of information and communication in nation-building and driving financial markets and economy is immense. Accurate information and proper communication creates a proper value perception and builds public confidence. Proper and timely communication aims at informing, instructing and inspiring people, and is a strategic tool for driving economic growth and speedy […]

Of Twitter and Buhari’s controversial tweet

By Segun Ige Twitter’s deleting of President Muhammadu Buhari’s tweet sharply brings to remembrance a lot that have been unconsciously repressed. The pretext of the post, Twitter argues, violates its rules – in particular, of inciting and invoking war and hatred. “Many of those misbehaving today are too young to be aware of the destruction and […]

June 12: Democracy Day and the proposed revolution

By Carl Umegboro  Indeed, Nigeria is passing through a perilous time in her 60 years of existence. Nobody, not even the ‘seers’ that flood the space with prophecies, ever imagined the nation will deteriorate to this stage where animals are valued more than humans; at least animals are killed with good reasons unlike humans nowadays. Only […]

What is wisdom?

By Simon Ifeanyi Ezeh An English dictionary, the word web, defines wisdom as accumulated knowledge, erudition or enlightenment or the trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight or ability to apply knowledge, experience, understanding or common sense and insight or the quality of being prudent and sensible. All the definitions given above are […]

Anambra 2021: Why everyone wants a piece of Valentine Ozigbo

By John Akinduro I have been following political developments in Nigeria for decades and I can tell that the latest trend of money politics has made it impossible to elect credible candidates. The 2015 and 2019 general elections are a testament to this ugly development that has produced bad governance and poor leadership. The Joseph […]

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