EDUCATION

Adesanya-Davies urges CONUA, others to support or stay silent on ASUU’s strike

Daily Dispatch October 24, 2025

A Professor of Applied Linguistics and Communication at Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Port Harcourt, and former presidential candidate, Prof. Funmilayo Adesanya-Davies, has called on the Congress of University Academics (CONUA) and other academic splinter groups to either support or

NEWS

Sowore, Nnamdi Kanu’s Lawyer, Brother, and others released on bail

Daily Dispatch October 24, 2025

A Magistrate Court in Kuje, Abuja, has granted bail to human rights activist and SaharaReporters publisher, Omoyele Sowore, along with several individuals detained during the #FreeNnamdiKanuNow protest held in the Federal Capital Territory. Those granted bail also include Aloy Ejimakor, counsel to the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu;

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Trump says trade talks with Canada ‘terminated’ over anti-tariffs advert

Daily Dispatch October 24, 2025

US President Donald Trump has announced an immediate end to all trade negotiations with Canada over an advert critical of the tariffs he has imposed on the nation. The advert, sponsored by the government of Canada’s province of Ontario, quoted Trump’s predecessor, Ronald Reagan, an icon of US conservatism, saying tariffs “hurt every American”. Trump

NEWS

Breaking; Again, Kanu fails to open defence, claims ex-counsel still with his case file

Daily Dispatch October 24, 2025

The detained self acclaimed leader of the proscribed separatist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu on Friday failed to open his defence in his ongoing terrorism trial before a Federal High Court in Abuja. Kanu blamed his inability to open his defence on the failure of his former counsel to hand him […]

COLUMNS

Ademola Osinubi @70: The mien, the mask, the man (1)

Daily Dispatch October 24, 2025

By Tunde Odesola (Published in The PUNCH, on Friday, October 24, 2025) The life of Nagudu paints, in vivid colours of fire, the state of Nigerian journalism. Who is Nagudu, by the way? Nagudu is the black-bellied, fire-eating iron cauldron that cleans up after others. Nagudu sits in the fire, taking the heat so others […]

LEAD STORY 2

Multiple principalities at INEC can tarnish Amupitan’s integrity — Chidi Odinkalu

Daily Dispatch October 24, 2025

A former chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Chidi Odinkalu, has described the new Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Joash Amupitan, as a man of integrity. He, however, said that integrity could be tarnished by what he called “multiple principalities” at INEC. Odinkalu explained that managing INEC was a different […]