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The US built world’s greatest card system

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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Obi’s second tenure

Obi’s second tenure

TODAY, Mr. Peter Obi of Anambra State would have spent the first one year in his second term in office. And to properly assess the progress of his administration or lack of it, we will occasionally revert to his first four years in office, since development is a veritable continuum; where an aspect complements the whole..

In defence of Bode George’s celebrations

In defence of Bode George’s celebrations

BODE George finished his prison sentence on Saturday February 26, 2011 and moved straight from Kirikiri prison to Cathedral Church of Christ for a thanksgiving service to God Almighty who preserved him while he served the punishment meted out to him by the State for his infraction against the laws of the land.

Between Jonathan, Tinubu and the “rascals”

Between Jonathan, Tinubu and the “rascals”

ALHAJI Bola Ahmed Tinubu has, in the past 12 months or so, been playing poseur. He has been carrying on like some messiah, a man imbued with the definitive political alternative for a better Nigeria. His fortunes rose in the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), following Alhaji Atiku Abubakar’s counter defection to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Nigeria and the 2011 general elections

Nigeria and the 2011 general elections

FOR some obvious reasons, I decided not to write for sometime now. The main reason is the fact that there have been no positive changes in the country. In one of my previous write-ups, I wondered why Nigeria , regarded as the sixth largest oil producing country in the world, cannot make kerosene available to its citizens, especially the common man.