BRANCH networks in premier business districts, traditionally believed to measure the stature of financial providers, are being replaced with internet banking, payment apps and short-code banking. Technology has enabled non-traditional financial players upend branch networks typically dominated by large financial providers; with newer, nimbler entrants such as Interswitch and Paystack processing more online transactions than Nigeria’s biggest banks.

With his latest outing of envy and hatred against President Muhammadu Buhari, former President Olusegun Obasanjo has finally confirmed our suspicion that because he could not succeed with his third term agenda, no other Nigerian President should ever be allowed to get a second term in office so that in his twisted worldview, he will always stand heads and shoulders above any other Nigerian leader.

Unless we take our destiny in our own hands, it would appear that wonders from the theater of the absurd are destined to remain our lot in this country for nothing else might explain the utter self-contradiction characterising the rabble of daily bread politicians now allied to railroad Alhaji Atiku Abubakar into office against reason and all common sense.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, by far the greatest contributor to the underdevelopment of Nigeria, is at it again.

Your Excellency, President Olusegun Obasanjo, former president, electorally valueless item (sorry, malleable quantity), retired General but apparently not tired troublemaker (sorry poultry farmer), please we beseech you to be allowed the liberty of addressing you by recourse to a timeless and quite evergreen line from the stable of your late townsman, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, a man your administration tormented up to the point of the untimely death of his mother of blessed memory, the incomparable Fumilayo Ransom-Kuti.