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As NNPC, Dangote trade tackles…

Daily Dispatch July 28, 2024

By Bolanle BOLAWOLEturnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 When two elephants fight, the grass, they say, suffers. But when cabals fight, and fight dirty like the NNPC and Aliko Dangote are doing, what happens? Dogs eat dogs and chickens gnaw at each other’s intestines. Can of worms explode in the open

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Of minimum wage, tortoiseshell and Akpabio’s threat

Daily Dispatch July 28, 2024

By Hassan Gimba, anipr “Unlike the stomach, the brain doesn’t alert you when it’s empty.” – Arabic proverb. There are many tales about how the tortoise got its cracked back. One with various versions stands out. It is the one in which the tortoise had two geese as friends. In the Buddhist scriptures, the tortoise fell […]

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Does sparing the rod spoil the child?

Daily Dispatch July 27, 2024

By Tunde Odeslola Parenting is a tough turf. It’s also a free-for-all terrain where everyone claims expertness. When in a free fall, parenting is like the blabber around the round leather game, with noisy fans professing possession of better tactics than the god of Tiki-Taka, Pep Guardiola, though they cannot tap the ball into a […]

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NNPC v Dangote: Where the Truth Lies

Daily Dispatch July 25, 2024

By Azu Ishiekwene Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, is not a stranger to adversity or its more sinister cousin, sabotage.  One of the bitterest battles he has fought in the last 25 years – the cement war – was against his kinsman and founder of BUA Group, Abdulsamad Rabiu. Folks close to both men have […]

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LASPA: Not churches and mosques alone…

Daily Dispatch July 24, 2024

By Bola BOLAWOLEturnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533, 0803 251 0193, 0705 263 1058 Last week, Lagos State Parking Authority (LASPA) stirred the hornets’ nest when a letter addressed to the Lagos State branch of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria hit the newsstand. Dated Friday, July 19, 2024 and signed by its Head of Operations, Ayokunle Akinrinmisi, […]

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Local Government autonomy: More centralism, less federalism

Daily Dispatch July 21, 2024

By Bolanle BOLAWOLEturnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 The Supreme Court decision that federally-allocated funds be paid directly to the local governments (LGs) has raised serious concerns about whether we are actually practising Federalism and, if we are, what variant of Federalism. The apex court’s decision was at the instance of the Federal Government (FG) that dragged […]