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Teachable moments in Ghana election

Daily Dispatch December 10, 2024

By Zainab Suleiman Okino Beyond their playful rivalries over jollof rice and football supremacy, Ghana and Nigeria share profound historical, cultural, and political trajectories that have shaped West Africa’s development. As Britain’s most significant colonial possessions in West

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Afe Babalola must breathe – By Wale Ojo-Lanre Esq

Daily Dispatch December 9, 2024

The majority of Nigerians seem to exhibit a form of willful ignorance; otherwise, they would not naively support Dele Farotimi in his reckless, brutal and brazen criminal defamatory, deliberate and calculated damaging of the person, personality, image and the entire entity of Chief Afe Babalola and the Supreme Court. It is deeply troubling that an […]

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Afe Babalola and Dele Farotimi: of a god and a mere mortal

Daily Dispatch December 9, 2024

By Bolaji O. Akinyemi. Justice they say should not just be done, it must be seen done! When justice is done but not seen done, it leaves room for seeds of bitterness and a vengeful spirit on which a revenge mission may fester, which has led many to take laws into their hands. In some […]

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Oshiomhole And His Liberalisation Of Stealing

Daily Dispatch December 9, 2024

By Kazeem Akintunde Aliu Adams Oshiomhole, needs no introduction in Nigeria’s politics. From his days as a labour leader, after being elected President of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), to his days as a politician, starting as the National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress, (APC), and as a two-time Governor of Edo State and […]

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The Trajectory Of Senator Godswill Akpabio At 62

Daily Dispatch December 8, 2024

By Rt Hon Eseme EyibohSpecial Adviser, Media and Publicity and official Spokesperson to the President of the Senate Senator Godswill Obot Akpabio’s foray into politics from his humble beginning as Commissioner in three key Ministries in Akwa Ibom state to the President of the 10th Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a narrative […]

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Cry not, North; smell the coffee and act (1)

Daily Dispatch December 8, 2024

By Hassan Gimba The topic on everybody’s, well, almost everybody’s, lips now is tax reform. Everybody has become an expert, so everyone is discussing it: the experts, the neophytes, and even those who do not give a hoot. Nigerians love to talk, dissipate energy, joke about it, and then move on as if nothing happened. President Bola […]