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The Sunday Stew: ‘To Keep It Coming’: Reflections on Framework Building, Idea Formation and Scholarly Reception

Daily Dispatch May 31, 2026

By Max Amuchie There is a specific kind of validation that academia confers and another that the world confers. The academy signals acceptance through citation, peer review, and the slow machinery of scholarly publication. The world signals it differently — through use. When a scholar picks up

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Renewed Hope delivered: Three years of the Tinubu administration

Daily Dispatch May 30, 2026

By Mohammed Idris Today marks the third anniversary of the inauguration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and an opportunity to reflect on the very concrete achievements of the Renewed Hope agenda – a comprehensive eight-point vision designed to touch the lives of every Nigerian and reposition our country. The agenda – spanning energy and natural […]

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United We Stand: Inside President Tinubu’s National Unity Agenda

Daily Dispatch May 29, 2026

By Fredrick Nwabufo In certain social silos, it is common to hear uncomplimentary comments about Nigeria’s unity and the chances of bridging the fault lines. My position has always been that where leadership aspires to the loftiest of ideals, change is possible, even if it is incremental. In multi-ethnic societies like Nigeria, achieving homogeneity in ideas […]

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A Party for Nigeria’s Latest Abductors

Daily Dispatch May 28, 2026

By Azu Ishiekwene Nigeria’s main political parties are in the thick of their primaries ahead of the 2027 general elections. That politicians can still manage to hold primaries in the midst of a worsening wave of horrendous attacks on communities and kidnappings in parts of the country, not to mention the economic hardship, suggests we […]

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Bola Tinubu: the man who took the bullet for Nigeria to survive

Daily Dispatch May 28, 2026

By Bayo Onanuga With politicking intensifying ahead of the January 2027 election, opposition politicians have escalated their campaign of misinformation and calumny to diminish the impact and achievements of this administration over the last three years. Two years ago, when the administration was struggling to deal with the unintended consequences of its historic reforms,

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The Abacha In Tinubu

Daily Dispatch May 27, 2026

By Iduh Onah There is an old and uneasy ghost that still haunts Nigeria’s Aso Rock Presidential Villa – a spectre dressed in camouflage, perfumed with decrees, fear, and the stale arrogance of unchecked authority. It is the ghost of General Sani Abacha, the military ruler who transformed Nigeria into a graveyard of dissent, where […]