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Playing Scrabble with the murderous king of Orile-Ifo

Daily Dispatch February 7, 2025

By Tunde Odesola Despite being jobless during the decade-long Great Depression that ravaged the industrialised West, American architect, Alfred Mosher Butts, never turned his mind into the devil’s workshop nor allowed idleness to find employment for his hands. Butts reckoned Americans needed an

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UNIVERSITY ADMISSION: Still on the age controversy

Daily Dispatch February 6, 2025

By Bola BOLAWOLE turnpot@gmail.com 0803 251 0193, 0807 552 5533 Those who insist that 16-year-olds are old enough to qualify for admission into our institutions of higher learning – if they satisfy other criteria – may have won the battle for now, but the controversy over this very sensitive issue is far from being over […]

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Implications of the rumblings in the South-west – 1

Daily Dispatch February 3, 2025

By Bolanle BOLAWOLEturnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 What is left when honour is lost? – Publilius Syrus When negative things continue to happen one after the other, be careful! The signs are ominous! A Yoruba first-class Oba was caught on camera, in broad daylight, stooping or cringing before the Emir of Ilorin of all persons! Recall […]

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Tinubu/El-Rufai: Intrigues, Power Game Ahead Of 2027 Polls

Daily Dispatch February 3, 2025

By Kazeem Akintunde In the build-up to the 2023 general elections, Mallam Nasir El-rufai, the then Governor of Kaduna State, was among the first set of prominent political leaders in the North to openly identify with the presidential aspiration of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. His commitment to the Tinubu project was 100 per cent. Like a […]

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2025: Northern Islamic Agenda Cannot Continue In Nigeria – Nwankwo T. Nwaezeigwe

Daily Dispatch February 2, 2025

BOLA AHMED TINUBU ISLAMIZATION PROJECT DEFINED BY 33 MUSLIM MINISTERS AND 15 CHRISTIAN MINISTERS (In a Nigeria with 55% Christians and 43% Muslims) Compiled by Nwankwo T. Nwaezeigwe, PhDPresident, International Coalition against Christian Genocide in Nigeria (ICAC-GEN)Email: Nwaezeigwe.genocideafrica@gmail.com website: https://icac-gen.org Nigeria, a country with a

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Tchiani: Rabble-rouser or God sent?, 

Daily Dispatch February 2, 2025

By Hassan Gimba There have been pressures on me from pro- and anti-Abdourahamane Tchiani elements to weigh in with my two-pence opinion, whatever that will avail. I deliberately said pro- or anti- because it was all about him. It is either you agree with his assertions or not. Now, in a matter as pressing as […]