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Regional commissions: Short on inclusion and funding.

Daily Dispatch January 7, 2025

By Zainab Suleiman Okino The establishment of the North-East Development Commission by former President Muhammadu Buhari initially garnered widespread support, given the region’s devastating circumstances. The area had been severely ravaged by Boko Haram insurgency and sectarian crises,

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Phone Manual For Couples

Daily Dispatch January 7, 2025

By Aunty Omowunmi Phone use can affect your relationship/marriage negatively or positively. Be smart as you use your smart phone. Contact me for more Relationship and marital gist via 08024242391

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2025: Tinubu’s Promises And Expectations of Nigerians

Daily Dispatch January 6, 2025

By Kazeem Akintunde President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on January 1st, 2025, was named by Thisday Newspapers as its man of the year for 2024. The Board of editors at the Newspaper based their decision on what they termed his bold, resilient and courageous decisions so far taken since he assumed office on May 29, 2023. […]

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The other side of the Yahaya Bello phenomenon

Daily Dispatch January 5, 2025

By Andrew Agbese Former governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Adoza Bello is a personification of what in legal parlance is refered to a ’cause celebre’ – a celebrated or controversial issue that attracts wide public interest. Whether he intends it or not, most of his actions and utterances usually take on lives of their own […]

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OBJ Versus NNPCL: When Will The Ding-dong End?,

Daily Dispatch January 5, 2025

By Taiwo Adisa I expected former President Olusegun Obasanjo to fire back at the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) immediately after it announced the revival of the old Port Harcourt refinery on November 26, 2024. In several interviews before that announcement, the former president had emphatically stated that the refineries cannot work anymore. He […]

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The tiff between me and my friend, Umar Iliya Damagum

Daily Dispatch January 5, 2025

By Hassan Gimba For those who may not know, considering that I am a journalist and he is a politician, the first time I knew Ambassador Umar Iliya Damagum, the Acting National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), was in 1977, some 48 years ago. When God brought us together at Government College Maiduguri, […]