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 […]
Biofuels: How prepared is Nigeria? (2)
European legislative pressures target for minimising landfill use in European countries and the amount of biodegradable municipal solid waste (BMSW) going to landfill must be reduced by 25 per cent by 2010, 50 per cent by 2013 and 65 per cent by 2020. Do we as a nation have such a plan? I don’t think so.
A warrior for peace
Too many times our governors and other political warriors in the Third World begin with and stop at the enactment of massive infrastructural developments. To their shame or perhaps state of un-knowingness they mistake rising skylines as the equivalent of human development.
Biofuels: How prepared is Nigeria?
Other environmental impacts are the expensive irrigation practices and the pressure on land use. Extremely weak research activities to generate the best strains of crops taking the least time from germination to maturation as well as having desirable traits to make the entire process profitable.
Gani: The Greatest Modern Nigerian
Gani Fawehinmi who died on Friday, September 5, 2009 is the greatest Nigerian of the modern era. I don’t expect anyone to disagree with this emphatic statement. But because even the most fundamental truth can be challenged and falsified if not substantiated beyond doubt, let me argue why I think that Gani is the greatest Nigerian of our generation.
Why destroy this president?
RECENTLY, Edo State narrowly averted what would easily have been a fight between the Action Congress and the Action Congress. Certainly, it is not what you have in mind – not the issue of factions. Who is afraid of factions, any way?
