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The Sunday Stew: From Abuja to Hangzhou (1): A Handshake with the Chinese

Daily Dispatch August 23, 2026

By Max Amuchie It began, unexpectedly, with a telephone call one evening in May.I was at my desk in Abuja when my phone rang. On the other end was Kemi Yusufu, Publicity Secretary of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP). She had an unusual message. A friend had contacted her to say

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Davido, Rarara: Possible Combination and the 2027 Race

Daily Dispatch August 23, 2026

By Hassan Gimba Nigerian politics is so serious that it is no longer left in the hands of politicians. Or so it seems. We can see how Davido, carrying the South and a segment of Northern youths, and Rarara, with a huge fan base in the North, stand at the vanguard of the music industry, […]

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101-year-old great-grandma Esther Ogunmabo arrested in Ogun State for selling drugs in sachets

Daily Dispatch August 23, 2026

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have arrested a 101-year-old great-grandmother for dealing in illicit drugs. The great-grandmother, identified as Esther Ogunmabo, was arrested in Ilisan, Ogun State, with retail sachets of skunk, a strain of cannabis, weighing 90 grammes, which she claimed she sold to locals. A statement on Sunday by the […]

NEWS

2027: Akwa Ibom APC/PDP, Others, Collapse Structures For Tinubu, Akpabio and Eno

Daily Dispatch August 23, 2026

The re-election bids of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Senate President Godswill Akpabio and Governor Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom State, received a major boost on Saturday, with their unanimous endorsement by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Rising from a meeting of its critical […]

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Was the Osun governorship election free, fair and credible?

Daily Dispatch August 23, 2026

By Taiwo Adisa, PhD (Published by the Sunday Tribune August 23, 2026) The Osun State governorship election may have been won and lost, yet the echoes of that off-cycle contest will continue to reverberate well into next year’s general elections, scheduled for 16 January and 6 February 2027. Since the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) […]

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Osun Polls: The days after and implications for 2027

Daily Dispatch August 23, 2026

By Tunde Rahman Osun State woke up last Sunday with the same government it went to bed with: that of Governor Ademola Adeleke. With Adeleke’s victory in the August 15 election, the opposition may be having a new talking point for 2027. The governor ran on the Accord Party platform, polling 511,067 votes to defeat […]