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How Will Africa Remember Donald Trump? Here Is How, By Azu Ishiekwene

Daily Dispatch January 14, 2021

US President Donald Trump may have lost re-election but he would be escorted out of the White House on Tuesday night with a special prize: Africa’s worst friend in modern times. Not that it matters to Trump one way or the other. We can only hope that after four years of spite, insults and

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Grave Concerns: Tribute to AA AbdulSalam ( 1954- 2020), By Issa Aremu

Daily Dispatch January 14, 2021

At times like these when the world some 2 millions COVID: 19 fatalities-victims, with almost 1500 from Nigeria, funeral tolling is no more news worthy. “For Whom the Bell Tolls” is the singular classic by the great novelist, Ernest Hemingway. The primary theme of the novel is death. The point cannot be overstated that we […]

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Ogun to upgrade SDC to public Service College

Daily Dispatch January 14, 2021

 The Secretary to Ogun State Government, Mr. Tokunbo Talabi has said that government will continue to build on the existing structures, in order to allow the public/civil servants best among the comity of States public servants. Mr. Talabi who made this known during the assessment tour of the Staff Development Centre, Abeokuta, said government was […]

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No political party should cede 2023 presidency to south-east, by Fredrick Nwabufo

Daily Dispatch January 13, 2021

If the 2023 presidency is relieved of competition and minimised to an ethnic contest, then we are consciously backtracking to the mistakes of 2015. Ethnic considerations brought President Muhammadu Buhari to power. And I am sure most Nigerians have witnessed the calamity that this current administration is. When leadership is robbed of progressive competition, competence

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Of good governance and parliamentary system of government

Daily Dispatch January 7, 2021

By: Adémólá Òrúnbon It is almost 22 years of democratic rule in Nigeria. There is no better time than now to assess the suitability of the 1999 constitution. It is even more compelling in the light of recent happenings in the country, especially the wanton killings by the Boko Haram, kidnapping of innocent people by […]

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2021: Year To Calm Down, And Wail Less – Femi Adesina

Daily Dispatch January 1, 2021

By Femi Adesina When the year 2020 popped out of the womb of time, nobody knew that it was going to be what Yoruba people call Ogbologbo. Rough and tough. Unpredictable. Hungry and angry, consuming anything and everything it could lay its jaws on. Across America, Europe, Asia, Africa, indeed, all continents, time, like an ever […]