COLUMNS

Between the politics and comedy of Nigerian religious leaders

Daily Dispatch August 13, 2026

By Dr. James Bwala The politics and religion of Nigeria are a theater of absurdity. Religious leaders in Nigeria frequently mix partisan politics with pulpit preaching. High-profile clerics from both major faiths use their religious platforms to endorse candidates, campaign for specific ballot

NEWS

Zulum: Nigeria Must Move Beyond Tractor Ownership to Modern Farm Services

Daily Dispatch August 12, 2026

Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum, has called for a fundamental overhaul of Nigeria’s agricultural mechanisation policy, urging the country to move beyond the purchase and ownership of tractors to a modern, service-driven system that gives farmers timely access to machinery, technology and finance. Zulum made the call on Wednesday in Abuja at a High-Level […]

NEWS

Fubara, Rivers Assembly Not at War Over 2026 Budget — Govt

Daily Dispatch August 12, 2026

The Rivers State Government has dismissed reports of a fresh confrontation between Governor Siminalayi Fubara and the State House of Assembly over the 2026 Appropriation Bill, insisting that the budget is progressing through the normal legislative process. The government, in a statement issued on Wednesday by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Onwuka Nzeshi, […]

BUSINESS

India-Nigeria Trade Hits $9bn

Daily Dispatch August 12, 2026

…as Abuja, New Delhi Deepen Strategic Partnership India and Nigeria are deepening their strategic partnership across trade, investment, defence, energy, healthcare, agriculture and technology, with bilateral trade climbing to about $9 billion in the 2025–26 financial year, the Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Abhishek Singh, has disclosed. Singh made the

COLUMNS

What Will Really Decide The 2027 Election?

Daily Dispatch August 12, 2026

BY IDUH ONAH AS WE gradually inch our way towards the 2027 general elections, one question deserves more than our many political paradoxes: if socio-economic conditions really determines electoral outcomes, what does that say about Nigeria’s political history; and what might it mean for 2027? In many functional democracies, the logic appears fairly simple. When […]

NEWS

Wike Closes Secretariat Of Dissolved Committee On Sales of FG Houses In FCT

Daily Dispatch August 12, 2026

Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has directed that the Secretariat of the dissolved Ad-hoc Committee on Sales of Federal Government Houses (SFGH) in the Federal Capital Territory be closed down with immediate effect. A statement on Wednesday, by the Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media, Lere Olayinka, stated […]