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Self-Help And The Road To Uromi: Matters Arising

Daily Dispatch April 6, 2025

By Kunle Osisanya, fdc olakunleosisanyag@gmail.com Section 14 (2b) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended stipulates that security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of government. Despite this lofty declaration, Nigerians are daily inundated

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Mele Kyari retires with his head high

Daily Dispatch April 6, 2025

By Salisu Na’inna Dambatta The end of the glorious career of Mele Kolo Kyari at the NNPC and later, NNPCL is such that he left the organisation with his shoulders very high despite all the challenges and complex Nigerian factors which manifested in the course of his long career at the Oil and Gas industry. […]

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Her feet got tired

Daily Dispatch April 4, 2025

By Andrew Agbese On that hot afternoon in February, when Senator Natasha Akpoti Uduaghan arrived the Senate chamber and noticed that the sitting arrangement had been altered and her seat moved to another spot, all she needed to have done was to clutch her order papers and moved to the new seat, quietly. But her […]

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How Wande Abimbola rejected IBB’s ING bait, and other stories (3)

Daily Dispatch April 4, 2025

By Tunde Odesola Abimbola’s eyes had seen 999 battles; so, one more battle would not make him go blind. Having survived a milestone of battles, it was natural for Abimbola to deploy his greatest weapon, Ifa, to prosecute the students’ battle that raged during his tenure as vice-chancellor of the University of Ife. The Babalawo’s […]

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When Are You Going to Get a Proper Job?

Daily Dispatch April 3, 2025

Azu Ishiekwene He didn’t say when his father asked him, but I wonder what the old man must think in his grave. Jonathan Power is now 83 and arguably one of Europe’s most widely published columnists.He was a young freelance journalist when his father asked him the question. Still, even if he had lived to […]

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Ahmadu Musa Kida: A giant step from the Basketball Association to NNPCL

Daily Dispatch April 2, 2025

By: Dr. James Bwala The recent appointment of Ahmadu Musa Kida as the non-executive chairman of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) signifies a pivotal shift in leadership within Nigeria’s oil sector. This transition, following President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s significant restructuring of NNPCL’s board, underscores the necessity for