COLUMNS

Dan Agbese: A boss and a friend

Daily Dispatch December 15, 2025

By Dotun Oladipo There are two things I avoid when people I adore die: I don’t write tributes and I avoid their burial. Twice in the last few years I have broken the second one: Attended their burials. The first was for my father-in-law, Alhaji Suleiman Yusuf, who is better known as Salam

BUSINESS

Tinubu may present N54.43trn 2026 budget on Thursday

Daily Dispatch December 15, 2025

President Bola Tinubu is expected to present the N54.43 trillion 2026 budget to the joint sitting of the National Assembly on Thursday, the last day of their sitting for the year, ahead of the lawmakers’ vacation for Christmas. In early December, the Federal Executive Council (FEC) put budget worries to rest by approving the 2026–2028 […]

LEAD STORY 2

Dangote levels corruption allegations against NMDPRA Boss

Daily Dispatch December 15, 2025

…alleges $5m spent on children’s Swiss education Aliko Dangote, chairman of Dangote Industries Limited (DIL), has accused the chief executive officer of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA), Farouk Ahmed, of corruption, alleging that the regulator spent millions of dollars on his children’s education abroad. Dangote claimed

COLUMNS

Police Orderlies, Senator Ningi, And His Scapegoats Theory

Daily Dispatch December 15, 2025

By Kazeem Akintunde Senator Abdul Ningi of Bauchi Central depicted a sorrowful figure last week on the floor of the upper chamber when he complained bitterly that his orderly had been withdrawn on the order of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. He was amongst those politically exposed Nigerians, top business executives, musicians, and several others whom […]

FEATURES

Tinubu’s partycide against the PDP: Why the PDP must not die

Daily Dispatch December 14, 2025

By Idang Alibi For some of us who always look at the spiritual side to even the most ordinary of earthly things, the travail that has befallen the once formidable ruling party and from 2015, the also equally formidable opposition party, the PDP, is not surprising. For us, our belief is that The PDP is […]

FEATURES

As Nasarawa works, a call for peace in politics

Daily Dispatch December 14, 2025

By Ali Abare The political ground in Lafia Local Government has been shaking. It started when the speaker of the local council was suspended. This led to another event: the state assembly suspending the council chairman, Hon. Mohammed Haliru Arabo, for three months. All this is happening inside the ruling party, the APC. These moves […]