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A Pain Too Deep for Words: Farewell to My Beloved Sister, Grace Evbayiro Asemota (née Osayande)

Daily Dispatch August 30, 2026

By Augustine Osayande, PhD August 27, 2026, will forever remain one of the darkest and most painful days of my life. It was the day death came knocking and took away someone profoundly dear to my heart—my beloved sister, Grace Evbayiro Asemota (née Osayande). There are moments in life for which

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Atiku’s Subsidy Push and Echoes of Desperation

Daily Dispatch August 30, 2026

By Tunde Rahman Alhaji Atiku Abubakar’s new policy shift toward bringing back the fuel subsidy is a welcome return to proper political debate and the path of rectitude. It contrasts sharply with his futile search for forged certificates and drug indictments in the run-up to the 2023 election and his latest goof about President Tinubu’s […]

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Subsidy removal: Tinubu, Atiku’s loyalists must come to the table with clean hands

Daily Dispatch August 30, 2026

By Taiwo Adisa, PhD (Published by the Sunday Tribune August, 30, 2026) As humans, we cannot, not communicate, so the communication experts say in the popular Axioms of Communication. By that, they mean that human beings possess an innate ability to talk. Man is a talking animal, so says Holly Weeks, an adjunct lecturer in […]

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ECOWAS At A Crossroads As Touray Ends Four-Year Era

Daily Dispatch August 30, 2026

By Michael Olukayode The departure of Dr Omar Alieu Touray as President of the ECOWAS Commission closes a four-year chapter in the history of West Africa’s foremost regional organisation, but it also opens one of its most uncertain. Touray, a Gambian diplomat who took charge of the Commission in 2022, leaves office after presiding over […]

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NDLEA Busts N6.2bn International Drug Pipeline

Daily Dispatch August 30, 2026

….Seizes ‘Jihadi Drug’ Hidden in Ghana Soap, 3.9m Opioid Pills The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has uncovered a major international drug trafficking operation spanning Africa, Europe and Asia, intercepting illicit consignments worth more than N6.2 billion in Lagos while arresting a suspected cross-border kingpin and several other traffickers. The

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DSS Directs Counsel to Seek Adjournment in Sowore’s Alleged Cybercrime Case Until After 2027 Presidential Election

Daily Dispatch August 30, 2026

The Department of State Services (DSS) has instructed its private counsel, Akinlolu Kehinde, SAN, to take steps to seek adjournment in the case of alleged cyber-bullying it instituted against African Action Congress (AAC) presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, until after the next presidential election slated for January 16, 2027. The DSS had approached the court to […]