The financial services industry has witnessed a landmark in the penetration of banking services to rural and urban areas with the introduction and migration of its payment cards and terminals from magnetic to the more secure chip and pin EMV platform. However, despite these achievements, the industry is still faced with the challenge of encouraging about seventy per cent of…
To be or not to be? That is the question that leaders the world over who have stayed more than two decades in power must be asking themselves now, after the avalanche of protests in the Arab world has crumbled otherwise untouchable demi-gods. Of course, Muammar Gadaffi by now should know that his days are numbered, not only in Libya…
Police deployed to cover the country’s April polls are complaining of non-payment of duty allowance for the period so far, which has lasted nine days. Some of the police that spoke to NEXT on condition of anonymity, disclosed that the N500 per day for the rank and file, N750 for inspectors, and N1000 feeding allowance approved for the officers, is…
With commercial activities and meetings by political groups stretching into the night, Olusola Saraki’s house in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, is now the city’s centre of attraction. The 79-year-old former Senator, popularly referred to as ‘Baba Saraki’, is well acknowledged as the grand master of Kwara politics, having decided most of the past political leaders in the state. Mr.…