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 […]
Army’s conflicting signals
IT is good that the Nigerian Army has once again pledged absolute loyalty to the Constitution and all legitimately constituted authorities in the land.
Scoring the Delta Minority Leader
POLITICS no doubt is a game which affords its players enhanced peaceful atmosphere, attracts love for one another and also an opportunity to rise to a position to assist in the empowerment of people.
Yar’Adua’s return and matters arising
WITH the return of the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar’Ardua back to Nigeria on Wednesday, March 24, 2010, after a 90 day absence for medical attention in Saudi Arabia, the course of polity in the country has begun to change.
Ngige, Soludo: Tale of two losers
THE worst moment in any election is often the day after. It is the period when the losers start coping with the reality of the outcome. Because truth most times hurts, for losers in an election, this is the time the sinking feelings of anger, disillusionment, frustration and “betrayal†take control of reason.
The benevolence of Ochendo
Do you know that Abia indigenes have been at the receiving end whenever this happened. But the Abia State government under Chief T. A. Orji has been a direct opposite of all these. As a nationalist Governor Orji has continued to retain non-indigenes in the state pay-roll. As a leading and respected voice in the Governors Forum, Governor Orji has been a strident advocate of a united Nigeria.
