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 […]
ASUU’s moral burden
THE sparks are still flying on the controversial strike action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities in state universities of the South-East since July 2010. For obvious reasons, the situation should not be allowed to linger.
PDP: Are governors really the problem?
THE Senate’s rejection of a clause in the amended Electoral Act 2010, which sought to make the federal lawmakers automatic members of the National Executive Committees (NEC) of their political parties, doesn’t seem to impress many discerning democratically-minded Nigerians.
Electoral Act Amendment: Treating voters with contempt
DESPITE the widespread rejection of the attempt to amend the Electoral Act 2010 by the National Assembly, the federal lawmakers seem pig-headed in their determination to pooh-pooh public opinion, which was stoutly expressed during the public hearing on the issue.
Doma’s test of fire
AS the 2011 elections draw near, one man I don’t envy is Attahiru Jega, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
Electoral Act 2010 and rigging of elections
THERE is no doubt that the new found love between the Presidency and the National Assembly regarding the consistent efforts to amend the 2010 Electoral Act is geared towards rigging the 2011 presidential primaries in January.
