BMO and RBC sold Moneris, the processor that clears one in three Canadian card transactions, to a US based private equity firm for two billion dollars this week. TD gave part of its payments book to Fiserv last year. CIBC and Scotiabank already run their card rails through Chase and Global Payments. That's the pattern now.
I've spent years shipping code on top of processors like this one. Watching every big bank quietly hand off the pipes their money actually moves through makes me wonder who in Ottawa is tracking that as an infrastructure risk, not just a business story.
10 years ago, I worked with Davido for the first time.
A decade passed. ORIADÉ arrived.
Directing B4 B4, felt less like a job and more like an offering. Because this video is everything I believe art should be. A great cinematography and Beautiful storytelling, never one at the expense of the other.
A homage to Yoruba heritage. The Elegance and grace of it. Wealth and Colour without excess.
B4 B4 video out now! directed by me!
Our lawlessness dey follow cause these things. Why is there a meeting for begging in the first place? The only person he should be begging are cell mates.
This footage is insane, but what might be even more insane: the guys inside this train survived. The community outside didn't.
This is northwestern Ontario, where 128 wildfires are burning tonight and 53 are out of control. Down the same rail line, a First Nation of about 40 people burned Monday night. Residents fled by boat. The local MPP says the entire community has been erased.
The fire that did it has been burning since May 31. Six weeks. Then 40 C heat and high winds turned it into a 14,000-hectare monster in a matter of days.
The detail that should worry you more than the video: three trains loaded with combustible and flammable materials are stopped and staged on this same line because the fire cut them off. Parked fuel cargo, inside an active fire zone.
The crew in this footage had detached their locomotive to rescue a track foreman. That's why they were in the fire's path when it closed around them. One of them can be heard saying "this could potentially overtake us."
The only highway into the area is closed. When the road closes and the rail line burns, a boat becomes the evacuation plan.
"The circumstances surrounding this incident are sufficiently grave and unusual to warrant independent scrutiny beyond our domestic institution." — Seyi Makinde asks international human rights organisations and the UN to probe Oriire abduction
I was inside Lagos Island (isale Eko) yesterday (the residential area) and it got me wondering; what exactly do you benefit from the government that has made you this loyal to them?
Everywhere stank, the roads were only accessible to one vehicle at a time, the houses are so cramped together and over crowded, your parents sat on the roads just to receive fresh air. I had to beg people to move their chairs off the road so that I could drive through.
You claim to own Lagos but you're living like this in the same Lagos you own? Why!!!!
a lot of people, especially westerners, especially-especially americans, conflate considering others with being controlled & respond with defiance. it’s very weird behavior.
“For seven years, we never witnessed anything like this in Oyo State. I declared my intention to run for the presidency of Nigeria at 4:00 pm, and by 9:00 am the following morning, the children had been abdǔct£d ”
— Seyi Makinde