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After Obey and KSA, will Fuji bury Jùjú? (1)

Daily Dispatch August 7, 2026

By Tunde Odesola (Published in The PUNCH, on Friday, August 7, 2016) Across the world’s seven continents and among its eight billion inhabitants, every creation story bears the same themes of void, force, and formation. The ancestries differ, the myths diverge, but the trilogy is forged

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“I Have Never Been Wrong About Vice President Kashim Shettima in Over 1,000 Articles” – Dr James Bwala.

Daily Dispatch August 5, 2026

By: Lazarus Balami Writing about politicians is one of the most difficult tasks in the field of journalism. This is because politicians themselves do not understand who they are in words and actions, and such breeds different pictures of what they are now and the next moment, especially highly experienced and intelligent ones like Nigeria’s […]

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Greed, Selfishness And Nigeria’s Underdevelopment

Daily Dispatch August 5, 2026

By Iduh Onah NIGERIA ’s underdevelopment is usually explained through a familiar vocabulary: corruption, poor leadership, weak institutions, policy inconsistency and insecurity. While all these are true, they are however largely symptoms rather than the disease itself. Beneath them lies a deeper moral crisis that receives far less attention than it deserves: the deadly

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Of Palaces and Ghost Kingdoms

Daily Dispatch August 5, 2026

By Zainab Suleiman Okino The recent revelation that the 2026 federal budget contains ₦5.85 billion earmarked for the construction of palaces in non-existent kingdoms illustrates the widening disconnect between government and the citizens it claims to serve. At a time when millions of Nigerians are struggling with inflation, unemployment, failing public services, and

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Liabilities Packaged As Legacy, Cobra Effect of Tail-end Projects In Ogun State

Daily Dispatch August 3, 2026

By Oyekoya Akintunde In governance, timing, purpose, and vision are as important as intent. Policies and projects introduced at the wrong time do not solve problems , they multiply them. They produce what is known as the “Cobra Effect” an intervention that leaves more damages than the problems it sets out to fix. This concern […]

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Insecurity: The Northern Leaders’ Incongruous Silence

Daily Dispatch August 3, 2026

By Kazeem Akintunde My brother and colleague, Reuben Buhari, wrote an article on his Facebook page that left me traumatized and depressed for days. It was based on the testimony of a man living in a community that has entered into an agreement with Boko Haram terrorists. Reuben and I worked together at Leadership Newspapers […]