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Unusual Reasons Africa Wanted Trump to Win

Daily Dispatch November 7, 2024

By Azu Ishiekwene I understand wealthy US citizens and conservatives of the evangelical hue rooting for Donald Trump. The rich believe he would loosen regulations and protect them and their businesses from excessive taxation. Conservative evangelicals believe he is the bulwark against wokeism,

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Not too young to commit crime but…

Daily Dispatch November 6, 2024

By Bola BOLAWOLEturnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 Too many Nigerians are too difficult to understand, most especially the educated ones among them, or, should I say, the supposedly-educated! They approbate and reprobate at the same time. In one breath they affirm that they stand for something; in yet another they negate the same thing they claimed […]

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Tinubu’s self-inflicted wounds and the blame game

Daily Dispatch November 5, 2024

By Zainab Suleiman Okino Notwithstanding his marginal victory, the negative impact of his ill-advised policy initiatives and lopsided appointments, the events of the last week have further detracted from President Bola Tinubu’s much-famed political capital and administrative wizardry. As damaging as the arraignment of teenagers from the North detained for the last three

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Democracy In The Spotlight As Americans Go To The Polls

Daily Dispatch November 3, 2024

By Kazeem Akintunde Citizens of the United States of America, USA, will go to the polls on Tuesday, November 5th to elect the 47th president for their country. With nearly 186.5 million Americans eligible to vote tomorrow, and more than 65 per cent of that number expected to cast their ballots, the outcome of tomorrow’s […]

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Let’s Save Our Democracy from this Axis Of Evil

Daily Dispatch November 3, 2024

By Hassan Gimba Several people, including Nigerian leaders, have said that democracy, as a form of government, has no better alternative. And why not, if democracy is all about a system of government in which the governed freely participate in electing their representatives? Nigeria has had a go at practising democracy even before its independence […]

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Professor Godini Gabriel Darah’s crab mentality

Daily Dispatch November 3, 2024

By Bolanle BOLAWOLEturnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 Professor Godini Gabriel Darah (GG Darah or simply “Comrade”, as we fondly called him) was one of our fire-spitting Marxist lecturers and staff advisers at the then University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), Ile-Ife aka “Great Ife”. Respect, sir! But how “great” is “Great Ife” today when it […]