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Refineries: Will Obasanjo be proved right afterall?

Daily Dispatch May 7, 2025

By Bola BOLAWOLEturnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533, 0803 251 0193 “The bottomline is for the refineries to work – eventually. If they do not, President Tinubu should understand that former President Obasanjo is waiting around the corner to laugh him to scorn!” Reports that N90 billion was

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Message To The Ooni of Ife: When You Are Too Available, You Lose Respect

Daily Dispatch May 5, 2025

By Dr. Bọ́lá Adéwará.I don’t know what you think about the recent disregard some obas now accord the Ooni of Ife in public. I only hope that, sooner than we fear, we don’t witness a moment when an oba, or even someone of lesser standing, drags the Ooni into public ridicule, stripping away the layers […]

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Is Nigeria becoming a one-party state?

Daily Dispatch May 5, 2025

By Bolanle BOLAWOLEturnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 “There is the saying, to wit, an elder running in the afternoon: if he is not pursuing something, something is pursuing him” As was wont our practice, we rubbed minds as those of us who were friends and aides sat at table with Governor Ayodele Fayose at Osuntokun House, […]

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The Opposition And The 2027 General Elections

Daily Dispatch May 5, 2025

By Kazeem Akintunde “Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in” The above quote is attributed to Bill Bradly, an American politician and former professional basketball player. Born July 28, 1948, he was offered 75 college scholarships due to his brilliance, but declined them all to attend Princeton University. He […]

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Defining Journalism: Why Chief Dele Momodu May Not Fit the Professional Standard of Being Called a Journalist.

Daily Dispatch May 4, 2025

By: ‘Biodun Ogundiran. In every profession, the thin line between expertise and quackery is drawn by standards—standards that define not only who belongs but also what qualifies a person to bear the title of a professional. Medicine has its regulatory councils. Law has its bar. Engineering and architecture are not exempt. Journalism, too, is a […]

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Natasha’s Ides of May and the Vindication of Akpabio

Daily Dispatch May 4, 2025

By Yusuf Alli The internet was abuzz the night of 2025 May Day, as a United States based activist, Dr Sandra Duru, with the moniker Prof Mgbeke made an expose` on the enfant terrible of the Senate and the suspended Senator representing Kogi Central Senatorial District, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan as a chronic liar, manipulator, and […]