EDUCATION

African students clinch top honours as KDI school graduates new global policy leaders

Daily Dispatch December 14, 2025

African students were among the standout performers as the KDI School of Public Policy and Management held its 2025 Commencement Ceremony, reinforcing the institution’s growing role in shaping a new generation of global policy leaders committed to ethical governance and sustainable development.

NEWS

Fleeing bandits’ drug supplier ‘Gamboli’ arrested in Niger

Daily Dispatch December 14, 2025

….As NDLEA Mother and Child over 1,187 kilogrammes skunk seizure in Ondo Three weeks after escaping arrest at his home in Anguwan Makera, Kuta, Shiroro local government area of Niger state, a notorious supplier of illicit drugs to bandits operating in the area, 33-year-old Mohammed Sani (alias Gamboli) has been arrested by operatives of the […]

NEWS

NUJ Calls for Collaboration to Realise Affordable House for Journalists

Daily Dispatch December 14, 2025

The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Congress has renewed its call for stronger collaboration with government and housing finance institutions to improve access to decent housing for journalists, as stakeholders gathered for the 2025 Housing Industry End-of-Year Dinner and the 17th Africa Housing Awards in Abuja. Speaking at the event,

NEWS

UNODC advocates inclusion of PWDs in crime prevention and security strategies

Daily Dispatch December 14, 2025

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has called for stronger inclusion of persons with disabilities in Nigeria’s crime prevention and security strategies, warning that exclusion weakens national responses to transnational organised crime. This call was made during a Stakeholder Dialogue on Crime Prevention and Transnational Threats, held at the UN House in

COLUMNS

The Akpabio Synthesis: An Uncommon Statesman at 63

Daily Dispatch December 14, 2025

By Rt Hon Eseme Eyiboh mnipr Nigeria is a country that produces noise faster than it produces true heroes. Politics here moves at a velocity that forgives very little and forgets even less. To survive is one thing. To matter is another. To matter for nearly two decades at the highest levels of public life […]

Politics

Towards 2027 Elections: Adesanya-Davies Calls on Parties to Field Female Vice Presidential Candidates in Nigeria

Daily Dispatch December 14, 2025

As Nigeria approaches the 2027 general elections, Prof. Funmilayo Adesanya-Davies, a don, prominent advocate for women’s empowerment and former female presidential candidate, has issued a call to action to political parties across the country conversing for female vice presidential candidacy. In a statement, Adesanya-Davies emphasized the importance of fielding