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New education policy: Another fiasco loading?

Daily Dispatch August 29, 2024

By Bola BOLAWOLEturnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 Let me waste no time in saying that if care is not taken, the new policy on education as enunciated by the Minister of Education, Professor Tahir Mamman, will translate into another “subsidy is gone” fiasco! Good policy but hastily pronounced

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Chinese Loans: Digging Our Own Grave

Daily Dispatch August 26, 2024

By Kazeem Akintunde Many Nigerians were aghast when a Chinese company seized three Presidential Jets belonging to the Federal Government of Nigeria in France while on a routine maintenance in their bid to enforcing a court judgment against the Ogun State Government.  Among the three jets seized by the company was a 15-year-old newly purchased […]

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Yobe @ 33: The journey so far

Daily Dispatch August 25, 2024

By Hassan Gimba his week, Yobe State will become 33. On August 27, 1991, President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida sliced Yobe State out of the old Borno State, which was itself carved out of the North Eastern State that was hewed from the Northern Region. The IBB regime thought it better to situate its capital in Damaturu. The British […]

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The trials of Bro. Ajaero and other stories…

Daily Dispatch August 25, 2024

By Bolanle BOLAWOLEturnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) is threatening to shut down the country’s economy if its president, Joe Ajaero, is arrested by the police. Ajaero has been invited for questioning by the police authorities over serious allegations that border on the security of the country and the wellbeing of Nigerians. […]

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Chaired by intrepid, sharply-focused Abu Inu-Umoru, Setraco turns 47

Daily Dispatch August 24, 2024

By Sufuyan Ojeifo It’s a given that great organisations need strong, visionary, and disciplined leadership to grow and progress in a highly competitive world that is increasingly buffeted and disrupted by ever more aggressive changes. Cut to the bone, this is the story of the 47-year-old construction giant, Setraco Nigeria Ltd., SNL, and its reticent, […]

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Issues around OVH acquisition and NNPC Retail

Daily Dispatch August 23, 2024

By Femi Awoyemi There is no equivalence with evidence in the financial, business, and economic space, as it is done in the political space. Records exist for a reason in the former, and players seeking to push self-interested agendas must come with evidence and not innuendos in this space. Despite misgivings about an entity, I, […]