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Nigeria: The absence of commonsense

Daily Dispatch November 29, 2024

By Tunde Odesola (Published in The PUNCH, on Friday, November 29, 2024) Long or short distance, life is an emotional roller-coaster journey characterised by doom or boom. Bólèkájà, a Yoruba word for mammy wagon, depicts the rough and tumble nature of road travel in the early days of Nigeria.

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Kemi Badenoch: Reaping where they did not sow…

Daily Dispatch November 28, 2024

By Bola BOLAWOLEturnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 You must have followed the Kemi Badenoch controversy: the wily Nigerian politicians’ penchant to ride on people’s back suffered a ghastly diplomatic accident! Thinking they could use her to shine and claim undeserved credit, Mrs. Kemi Badenoch, the newly-elected British Leader of Opposition/Shadow Prime Minister, Britain’s

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All Hail The Resurrection Of Petroleum Refining In Nigeria

Daily Dispatch November 27, 2024

By Jesutega Onokpasa The coming on stream or rather the resurrection of the Port Harcourt Refinery is exceedingly good news at a time at which good news has become a very scarce commodity in our nation. It was to say the least, a great and most embarrassing national shame that we have not had functioning […]

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Shouldn’t messenger and message deserve equal attention?

Daily Dispatch November 26, 2024

By Bolanle BOLAWOLEturnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 I was taken aback by the flurry of rejoinders to last week’s former Osun State Governor Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola’s “love letter” to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Believe me, it was far beyond my expectations, even though an eye-opener in its own right. Virtually none of the respondents saw the […]

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As Tax Reform Bills Turned Tax Man Zacch Adedeji To A Teacher

Daily Dispatch November 26, 2024

By Abass Abdullahi The Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Dr Zacch Adedeji, a seasoned Accountant and an accomplished public sector administrator, has been synonymous with tax collection. In fact, he is seen as the Nigeria version of the Biblical Zaccheous, the Tax Collector. However, issues on the recently introduced Tax Reform Bills […]

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Kashim Shettima: The personality traits of a leader in Nigeria’s growing democracy.

Daily Dispatch November 25, 2024

By: Dr. James Bwala Visionary leadership is crucial for sustainable development in Nigeria’s dynamic and frequently volatile political environment. Nigeria’s vice president, Kashim Shettima, is a well-known example of this trait; his style of leadership has revolutionized his state and the national conversation. In addition to reflecting his own experience, his