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What Nigeria Is Not At 64.

Daily Dispatch October 1, 2024

PROF CHRIS MUSTAPHA NWAOKOBIA JNR It is said that Nigeria is 64 today, and that’s what we have on Paper. But are we truly 64? Are we even the reverse, 46? I don’t think so, Nigeria wobbles, falters and stutters like a 6, and a 4 year old Child. Certainly not like 64. Nigeria is […]

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Fear history – 2

Daily Dispatch October 1, 2024

By Bolanle BOLAWOLEturnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 The first part of this topic, published on Sunday, 15 September, 2024, was the debate between the Marxist scholar at the then University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), Ile-Ife, Dr. Segun Osoba (as he then was), and another (conservative, foreign) lecturer in the same institution, Professor L. Beverley […]

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Who Is Sponsoring Banditry In Zamfara State?

Daily Dispatch September 30, 2024

By Kazeem Akintunde There has been no love lost between Bello Matawalle, former Governor of Zamfara state, who is presently the Minister of State for Defence in the administration of President Bola Tinubu, and the man who took over from him, Dauda Lawal. To those who may not know the nitty-gritty of their tiff, which […]

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A cocktail of Fintiri, NEPA meters, Borno flood and Malami’s son

Daily Dispatch September 29, 2024

By Hassan Gimba “This was a lynching. Make no mistake, this was state-sanctioned murder of an innocent Black man. Governor Parson had the responsibility to save a life, and he didn’t. When DNA evidence exonerates a man, capital punishment is not justice—it is murder. Trump, McConnell, and the conservative Supreme Court justices now have blood on their

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Drug Barons Don’t Need Fines

Daily Dispatch September 27, 2024

By Emmanuel Onwubiko Global counter-narcotics efforts are only successful depending on how far these agencies domiciled in the different Member Nations of the International community combating drug trafficking are actually able to reduce RE-OFFENDING. This is because of the verifiable fact that reducing reoffending is one of the main goals of criminal justice

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Discussing Portable, Apostle Suleiman, Fufeyin and the Chosen (2)

Daily Dispatch September 27, 2024

By Tunde Odesola (Published in THE PUNCH, on Friday, September 27, 2024) Apostle Suleiman continued with his imaginary testimony, claiming, “I now came (up) with a strategy. The strategy I came up (with) will close down the company; I was praying, (and) the Lord said, ‘Forgive’. Querying God, Suleiman asked, ‘Ehn, for what!?’ (The Lord […]