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REVEALED: Real Reasons President Buhari Retains Service Chiefs

Daily Dispatch January 31, 2020

BRASS TACKS with Suleiman Uba Gaya 0803 567 6295 (Text Message Only) Desiderius Erasmus, the Dutch humanist and theologian, who was also the leading renaissance scholar of Northern Europe, got it completely right when he aptly said that “war is delightful only to those who have had no

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Healing Our National Wounds: Why FG Should Partner Ufuk Dialogue

Daily Dispatch January 24, 2020

BRASS TACKS with Suleiman Uba Gaya 0803 567 6295 (Text Message Only) The first time in my life that I had the privilege of meeting a large assemblage of who is who in Christendom in Nigeria was in 2012 when I attended the first interfaith dinner/breaking of fast, hosted by Ufuk Dialogue Foundation in Abuja. […]

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Democracy Heroes: Dankwambo, three former governors on my mind

Daily Dispatch January 17, 2020

BRASS TACKS with Suleiman Uba Gaya 0803 567 6295 (Text Message Only) Today, against the backdrop of raging controversy over the appropriateness or otherwise of the sacking of Hon. Emeka Ihedioha as Governor of Imo State by the Supreme Court, as well other judgements that are likely to shake the polity to its foundation, to […]

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Zulum: A Performing Governor And His Utterances

Daily Dispatch January 10, 2020

BRASS TACKS with Suleiman Uba Gaya 0803 567 6295 (Text Message Only) I have never met with Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State, but he is one Governor many Nigerians have obviously fallen in love with. By his hardworking disposition and positive attitude, Zulum has endeared himself to millions of Nigerians who see in him […]

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Threats of Destabilization: Open Letter to Nigerians

Daily Dispatch January 3, 2020

BRASS TACKS with Suleiman Uba Gaya 0803 567 6295 (Text Message Only) Carl Max was definitely right when he described religion as the opium of the masses. This is even more so in Nigeria, a country that is on record to inhabit the largest number of churches and mosques in the world. Nigeria has some […]

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Re: Why Service Chiefs Cannot Be Changed

Daily Dispatch December 27, 2019

BRASS TACKS with Suleiman Uba Gaya 0803 567 6295 (Text Message Only) Even before Senator Ali Ndume made the now famous remarks last week, to the effect that technically speaking, Nigeria is at a state of war and cannot afford to change the service chiefs heading different branches of the Nigerian military, I was one […]