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 […]
The naked dance on Otta bridge
It is on record that the Governor has refused to endorse any of the numerous candidates who have openly declared interest or clandestinely plotting to succeed him come May, 29, 20 11 by God’s grace.
Revolution is not a tea party
A FEW weeks ago, Prof. Ben. Nwabueze, constitutional lawyer, Senior Advocate of Nigeria , former Minister of Education, statesman etc, called for a violent revolution in Nigeria . It is not the first time he has done so.
National Awards: Honouring the undeserving
Ordinarily, the role of the police is to protect the citizens from criminal predators and maintain law and order. Regrettably, in Nigeria, they behave as though they are beholden to an occupation power or deployed against their own people.
For Akomas, it’s goodbye
IT is quite unfortunate and pathetic that many people saw, but only few conquered. Political calculation and loyalty is one of the greatest attributes of a good politician, but this cannot be said of Chris Akomas, the impeached Deputy Governor of Abia State.
The leader and the people
I don’t do sequels so I won’t consider this piece a sequel to last week’s “The Leader and His Peopleâ€.
