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Age factor in Nigeria’s educational system

Daily Dispatch August 6, 2024

By Zainab Suleiman Okino On July 18, the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) held its 2024 policy meeting to determine modalities for admissions into tertiary institutions. However, the process was overshadowed by an age controversy. It began when the Minister of Education, Professor

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Rage Of The Almajiris In Northern Nigeria

Daily Dispatch August 5, 2024

By Kazeem Akintunde It was meant to be a peaceful nationwide protest with the slogan ‘EndBadGovernance’ in Nigeria, but in most of the states in Northern Nigeria, it was more like an opportunity for the poor to show their grievances against the state through the only way they are familiar – looting and destruction.  The […]

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Tinubu, beware the gathering dark clouds (1)

Daily Dispatch August 4, 2024

By Hassan Gimba I do not want to believe that in a country of nearly 250 million people, I am the only one who thinks there is a gathering of ominous dark clouds over our dear country beginning in the North. I cannot afford that foolish and lazy thought even if I wanted to dream […]

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Underage admissions controversy: The way forward

Daily Dispatch August 4, 2024

By Bolanle BOLAWOLEturnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 Visit any of our institutions of higher learning and you begin to see toddler-undergraduates all over the place! Boys and girls who should still be in SS1 are already preparing to graduate! Merely looking at them testifies to the fact that they lack the much-needed maturity. They may pass […]

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Kogi And The Yahaya Bello’s Magic Hands Of Peace

Daily Dispatch August 2, 2024

By Sulaiman Adejoh It was a friend who was monitoring the ongoing #EndBadGovernance protest that first called my attention to the situation in Kogi State. He said he was surprised that despite the seeming volatile state of Kogi, and the clandestine plot of the opposition elements in the State to pitch its immediate past Governor, […]

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Mike Ejeagha and the power of music

Daily Dispatch August 2, 2024

By Tunde Odesola I grew up hating my name, Isaac, after listening to Fela Anikulapo-Kuti’s song, Upside Down, which he did with his American soulmate, Sandra Isidore, in 1976. Apart from his mother, the king-dethroning Madam Olufunmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Sandra was a major influence in the radicalisation of Fela, burnishing his art and heart with the […]