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Tight Race: Letter from Abroad to Michelle Obama

Daily Dispatch November 2, 2024

By Azu Ishiekwene Dear former First Lady, You asked the question that millions outside the US have been asking for weeks if not months: Why can’t America see former President Donald Trump for who he is – a congenital liar, a narcissist, a fascist, and a demagogue? At a campaign rally in

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I will make you disappear!

Daily Dispatch November 1, 2024

Tunde Odesola To speak tongue-in-cheek is to say, “Na Baba kill Dele Giwa.” But to speak matter-of-factly is to say, “Dele Giwa was killed in his ‘gida’”. ‘Gida’ is a Hausa word for house. If you like, add ‘gida’ to Baba, na you sabi. It was a Sunday morning, almost 38 years ago, when a […]

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REV. ABEL DAMINA, SCHOOL DROP-OUT TURNED HERETIC

Daily Dispatch November 1, 2024

By Prof. Funmilayo Adesanya-Davies A public and social affairs analyst, Pius Adebayo has said “Abel Damina is not a strange name in the ears of many Nigerians as far as the peddling of Christian heresies is concerned. He has carved for himself an unenviable niche in the world of heretic and controversial doctrines. In a […]

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Is Tinubu T-Pain or not?

Daily Dispatch October 30, 2024

By Bola BOLAWOLEturnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 Those who created the T-Pain label for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu must be grinning from ear-to-ear for the phenomenal success they have recorded! Not that they said anything new or that Nigerians were not familiar with the phenomenon they graphically painted but because the Tinubu government allowed it to […]

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Relationship Talk With Olorikingsley

Daily Dispatch October 29, 2024

Gender matters: Experiences and consequences of digital dating abuse victimization in adolescent dating relationships most especially here in Nigeria Gender plays a significant role in adolescent dating abuse victimization, with girls experiencing more severe emotional consequences than boys. Research has shown that digital dating abuse affects adolescents similarly across

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Will President Tinubu Sleep this Night?

Daily Dispatch October 28, 2024

By Bolaji O. Akinyemi. That, things are hard in Nigeria is no longer news under the Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s 18 months old Presidency. what could be new is the news of softening up of the hardship that Nigerians are subjected to as a result of situations that should have been frontally confronted decades ago. Reflecting […]