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A new case for a Commonwealth based on trade – By Muhammadu Buhari

Daily Dispatch January 19, 2020

The United Kingdom’s exit of the European Union is now all but certain. Only the passage of time will reveal what their new relationship shall be. But with this new arrangement, I – like many other Commonwealth leaders – also seek a new settlement: not only of closer relations between the UK

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Taxing The Poor For Buhari’s Daughter’s Enjoyment

Daily Dispatch January 15, 2020

By Erasmus  Ikhide  SINCE Major General President Muhammadu Buhari frauded his way into power with the integrity mantra, some of us who supported him initially have been stoically beating integrity into his integrity-challenged head and government. Regrettably, all such laudable efforts, setting the agenda for his ethnically-induced regime fall into deaf

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The Imo gubernatorial judgment- A painful but legally correct verdict- By Kenneth Ikonne

Daily Dispatch January 15, 2020

It is indeed a perplFCCexing paradox: Hope Uzodinma may not have won the 2019 Imo State gubernatorial election, yet the Supreme Court, on the facts, was right in declaring him the winner of that election in law. The error was not the Supreme Court’s, but that of Governor Emeka Ihedioha’s legal team; and it was […]

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Cleaning the Augean stable at FIRS

Daily Dispatch December 27, 2019

By Kayode Rahman Ogunlana In the recent change of leadership at the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, the present and the more rational question that should occupy our minds in the aftermath of Babatunde Fowler’s exit is, the antecedents and thereby, the capacity of Malam Muhammadu M. Nami, the Executive Chairman to deliver on the […]

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Agenda for New FIRS Chairman, Mohammed Nami By Danladi Ndayebo

Daily Dispatch December 15, 2019

When the news broke that President Muhammadu Buhari has reconstituted the Board of Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) with Mr. Mohammed Nami as chairman-designate via an executive communication to the Senate plenary on 9 December 2019, Nigerians hailed the decision as well deserving. Any keen observer of the torrents of conversations on the appointment on […]

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Buhari cannot look the other way, by Azu Ishiekwene

Daily Dispatch December 12, 2019

Since we have eyes but cannot see, the Department of State Services invited us to look again at the viral video of the invasion of Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu’s courtroom on Friday. Laughable, if it wasn’t a travesty.The previous day, the judge had given the DSS 24 hours to release the Publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele […]