COLUMNS

There Is No Place for a Coup in Nigeria

Daily Dispatch November 6, 2025

By Ernest Omoarelojie In recent weeks, Nigeria’s public discourse has been clouded by rumours of a foiled coup plot involving over a dozen military officers and a former governor allegedly “on the run.” While the Defence Headquarters has issued a characteristically ambiguous statement, the very

NEWS

Just In: PDP Postpones Ekiti Congress, Governorship Primaries

Daily Dispatch November 6, 2025

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has written to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to announce the postponement of its congress and governorship primaries in Ekiti State. In a letter addressed to the INEC Chairman on Thursday by the party’s National Chairman, Alhaji Abdurrahman Muhammed and Publicity Secretary, Senator Samuel Anyanwu the PDP said the

COLUMNS

Thinking about midlife

Daily Dispatch November 6, 2025

By Azu Ishiekwene It feels somewhat like nostalgia, but it’s not. Life, they say, happens. There was something else I used to hear while growing up: A fool at 40 is a fool forever. I suspect that the wit here, if I may call it a wit, is that whatever one cannot achieve in life […]

NEWS

Submit your memorandum-Governor Sule urges participants at APC constitution review meeting

Daily Dispatch November 6, 2025

Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State has appealed to stakeholders from the state participating in the ongoing constitution review meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to submit their memorandum before the committee for consideration and possible adoption. Governor Sule made the call while flagging off the constitution review meeting of the APC, North Central

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

We’re going to do things Nigeria isn’t going to be happy about— President Trump says in new video broadcast

Daily Dispatch November 6, 2025

U.S. President Donald Trump has expressed deep outrage over the continued attack on Christians in Nigeria, describing the situation as a “horrible massacre” allegedly carried out by radical Islamists. In a strongly worded statement, Trump declared that Nigeria should be designated a “Country of Particular Concern” (CPC) under U.S. law a classification reserved for nations

EDUCATION

Senate passes landmark Bill jailing lecturers up to 14 years for sexually harassing students

Daily Dispatch November 5, 2025

A bold stand against the abuse of power in Nigeria’s universities reverberated through the Senate on Wednesday as lawmakers passed a landmark bill imposing prison terms of up to 14 years for lecturers found guilty of sexually harassing students. The Sexual Harassment of Students (Prevention and Prohibition) Bill, 2025—sponsored by Senate Leader Opeyemi Bamidele (APC, […]