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The mistakes that leaders make

Daily Dispatch March 9, 2025

By Bolanle Bolawole Leaders at both local and international levels make mistakes that reverberate with dire consequences for themselves, their peoples, and other peoples all over the world. Mistakes that leaders make often lead to wars – be they at local or international level as well. Lives

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Lami Fatima Babare (1966-2018): She would have been 59

Daily Dispatch March 9, 2025

By Hassan Gimba This was first published on March 12, 2018, nine days after her death. It is repeated wholly with only a headline change as a posthumous birthday seven years after. Lami Fatima Babare, my beloved wife, my friend, the mother of my children. Today marks one week of your painful death. When we […]

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Like Rivers, like Lagos; like Osun APC, like Lagos APC?

Daily Dispatch March 8, 2025

By Bola BOLAWOLEturnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533, 0803 251 0193 At a point I was in a quandary on how to address Hon. Mudashiru Obasa. What unfolded at the Lagos State House of Assembly presented a dilemma similar to that which confronted journalists after the annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential election won free and […]

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Natasha: Between the Nzeribe and Ndume options

Daily Dispatch March 7, 2025

By Andrew Agbese Luckily for Senator Natasha Akpoti Uduaghan, she may not need to scratch her head too deeply to find a solution to her predicament as she has other precedents to learn from.It is on record that the first senator to be suspended by his colleagues in the current dispensation was the irrepressible Senator […]

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Shameful letter on Tinubu’s slavish Assembly

Daily Dispatch March 7, 2025

By Tunde Odesola Dear Uncle Ahmed, Kowtowing is when a kowtower bows before wealth, power and influence. But, Your Excellency, when I refer to you as ‘Uncle Ahmed’, I’m not on a bootlicking mission. I call you ‘Uncle’ because we were neighbours in the same hood, where you and I tenanted in the early 1990s. […]

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My Take On The Natasha/Akpabio Feud

Daily Dispatch March 6, 2025

By Kenny Ogunmiloro I have never met Senator Akpabio, the first and the only time I was supposed to meet him was at the last AFCON where one of his aides told me he was coming for one of the matches and that I should be prepared to talk to him when he gets to […]