Sim-swap fraud now in vogue
By Owolola Adebola We are in a period when a smartphone functions as a digital wallet, identity card, and security key all at once. One of the oldest tricks in the cybercrime playbook has returned with a vengeance. SIM-swap fraud is at it. It is also known as SIM swapping, SIM hijacking, or phone-number takeover. […]
5G, COVID-19 and history without end
Continued from last week By Okoh Aihe Last week, I started a satirical illustration of how a novel 5G network has been wrongly connected to the outbreak of Covid19 pandemic. The satire comes with a lot of humour, pointing out how we allow legacy absurdities to rub us of opportunities to plan significantly for the […]
FIRS circular on advance payment of company taxes and the issues therein
By Moruff Adenekan THE Federal Inland Revenue Service recently issued a circular calling on corporate organisations to “commence payment of their annual returns earlier than their due dates, apart from their normal monthly obligations.” According to that circular, dated April 22, 2020 and titled “Update on Palliative Measures to Cushion Effect of COVID-19 on Taxpayers,” […]
NIGERIA NOTES: Accelerating poverty reduction in Nigeria
By Ladipo Adamolekun The number of extremely poor people continues to rise in Sub-Saharan Africa while falling rapidly in all other regions. By 2030, forecasts indicate that nearly 9 in 10 of the extremely poor will live in Sub-Saharan Africa. – D. Wadhwa, World Bank Blogs, September 19th, 2018 Preamble On Democracy Day 2019, President […]
COVID-19: Testing and the controversies in Akwa Ibom
By Usman Yusuf For days now, the media space( print and social) has been inundated with series of unfounded mischiefs against or in support of the purported sack of one Dr. Aniekeme Uwah who before now was the State Chief Epidemiologist. I decided to use the word “purported” because it has become apparent that in […]
Coronavirus: What’s next?
By Gbolahan Diyaolu SUCCINCTLY put by the late Chinua Achebe: “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold. Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is lost. The best lack all conviction, while the worst are filled with passionate intensity.” Coronavirus is here and the world […]
