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The Log in Your Eye

Daily Dispatch October 13, 2024

By Hassan Gimba There is a phrase that has gained widespread currency across the world: “Physician, heal thyself.” Not many know it is a biblical proverb and a direct quote from Jesus (AS). He said, “You will surely say to me this proverb, ‘Physician, heal yourself’: do here in your country

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Bobrisky, VDM, Falz and our very dark end (2)

Daily Dispatch October 11, 2024

Tunde Odesola Luxuriating in a posh apartment when he should be doing time for his crime, Bobrisky got on the phone with a friend, disgorging the content of his innards in a flirty, whimpering and entitled voice. The Very Important Prisoner coos, “I called my friend. You know, because I can’t use my account, I […]

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Is the almajiri system being imported into the South-west?

Daily Dispatch October 10, 2024

By Bola BOLAWOLEturnpoint@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 I witnessed the debate about who owns the home between the man and woman fortuitously last Monday as I found my way into the premises of the Lagos State Television and Radio Lagos, both owned by the Lagos State Government, along Agidingbi Road, directly opposite Coca-Cola premises. I was […]

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Bobrisky, EFCCrisky and the risk of a very dark nation.

Daily Dispatch October 9, 2024

By Bolaji O. Akinyemi. There are two dimensions to the dynamics of distraction in Nigeria, the social media and the government. At the peak of preparation for iWalk came distractions from both quarters, though, interwoven as always. One was the EFCC 15 million bribery allegation to drop charges of money laundering against Bobrisky made known […]

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An Open Letter To President Bola Tinubu

Daily Dispatch October 7, 2024

By Kazeem Akintunde Good day sir! I have decided to write you this open letter after one of your aides, Bayo Onanuga, told Nigerians last week that you are proceeding on a two weeks annual leave to the United Kingdom. As a leader that has been working ‘assiduously’ in the last 17 months to better […]

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Fear history – 3

Daily Dispatch October 6, 2024

By Bolanle BOLAWOLEturnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 If you have been following the story, before Dr. Segun Osoba’s lecture to the students of the University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University (“Great Ife”), Ile-Ife, on 1st February, 1974 in commemoration of the 3rd anniversary of the police killing of Kunle Adepeju, an undergraduate student of the […]