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By Elvis Onuigbo | February 19, 2026 Central Bank  Central Bank Governor Olayemi Cardoso warns that the rapid growth of stablecoin transactions  now approaching $22 billion annually in Nigeria  risks undermining monetary sovereignty and destabilising the naira. In the most forceful public statement yet from Nigeria's monetary authority on the subject of digital assets, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Olayemi Cardoso has issued a sweeping warning that the explosive growth of stablecoins and private digital payment platforms poses a direct threat to the country's foreign exchange stability, monetary sovereignty, and its ability to transmit monetary policy. Speaking at the G-24 Technical Group Meetings in Abuja on Wednesday, February 19, 2026, Cardoso placed Nigeria's stablecoin challenge in a broader global context, arguing that without coordinated international frameworks, emerging market economies like Nigeria stand to lose the most — watching their curr...

Tax Reform in Nigeria | February 19, 2026 REFORM AND REVENUE DRIVE: Is Nigeria Expanding Its Tax Net? An In-Depth Policy Analysis | Nigeria Tax Act, 2025/2026 Introduction: The Tax Problem Nigeria Has Always Had There is a question that has haunted Nigeria's fiscal planners for decades, and it goes something like this: how do you run a country of over 220 million people on the back of one commodity? Oil built Nigeria's modern state, but it also made the country dangerously lazy about building a robust, diversified revenue system. When oil prices fell — and they always eventually fell — the cracks showed immediately. Salaries went unpaid. Infrastructure stalled. Social services frayed. The same crisis, different year. For a long time, the answer from successive governments was to borrow. Nigeria's debt profile swelled. But borrowing has a ceiling, and debt servicing eventually crowds out every other line in the budget. The logical conclusion — the one that kept get...

Do Women Really Talk More Than Men? A Comprehensive Examination of Gender, Communication, and the Science Behind the Myth Few claims about gender differences are as widely repeated as the idea that women talk significantly more than men. Popular versions of this myth place women's daily word count at anywhere from 20,000 to 250,000 words, compared to a much lower figure attributed to men. These numbers have appeared in bestselling books, motivational speeches, television programs, and casual conversation across the globe. But what does the science actually say? Are women truly more talkative than men by nature, and if so, why? This article takes a thorough look at the research, the history of the myth, the biology and psychology of communication, and what genuinely drives differences in how humans talk. The Origin of the Myth The claim that women speak far more words per day than men was dramatically popularized by psychiatrist Louann Brizendine in her 2006 book The Female Brain. S...