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Olatunji Dare: To Repay is To Owe More

Daily Dispatch July 11, 2024

By Azu Ishiekwene Ten years ago, this article appeared under a different title, “The Debt I Owe.” Professor Olatunji Dare was 70 at the time. Ten years later, on Dare’s 80th birthday on July 17, I’m republishing the article with minor changes.  Without this man, I might have turned out to

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Between NNPC, IOC and Dangote: Who is fooling Nigerians?

Daily Dispatch July 11, 2024

By Bola BOLAWOLEturnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 The richest man in Africa, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, stirred the hornet’s nest recently when he accused the International Oil Companies (IOC) operating in Nigeria of sabotaging his efforts to put an end to the embarrassing, ridiculous and neck-breaking importation of refined fuel products by Nigeria. Although Dangote exonerated

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Happy 90th birthday WS, my Dad’s true friend

Daily Dispatch July 10, 2024

By Funso Adegbola I have known the Nobel Laureate, Prof Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka, who we fondly call Uncle Wole, Kongi, Prof and WS, for almost as long as I have known myself. He and my dad, Bola Ige were very close friends. They must have met at University College Ibadan, UCI- now University of Ibadan. […]

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Should Abiola have died incarcerated?

Daily Dispatch July 7, 2024

By Bolanle BOLAWOLEturnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 What you are about to read was written by me and was published in The PUNCH edition of Monday, July 7, 1998; which is 26 years ago, the very day the winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, Basorun MKO Abiola, died in incarceration in Abuja. I must […]

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There is only one solution to Nigeria- Akinyemi.

Daily Dispatch July 7, 2024

By: Adio Adesola Adesoji, (Triple A) The state of the nation is a media round table talk with friends of the Bold, Inspiring and Dynamic, BID, Bolaji O. Akinyemi in the media, hosted monthly as public affairs analyst and an advocate of good governance. In his capacity as the Convener, Apostolic Round Table (ART) and […]

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Nigeria and Presidential Democracy: Any Better Alternative? (2)

Daily Dispatch July 7, 2024

By Hassan Gimba, anipr This is the continuation of the article of last week, republished as a result of our current “search” for a more viable political system. It should be noted that they were first published over three years ago. In Nigeria and Presidential Democracy: Any Better Alternative? (1), we touched on how cries of […]