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Tinubu’s Fuel Subsidy Removal: A Year Of Economy Turmoil (Part 9)

Daily Dispatch July 1, 2024

By Erasmus Ikhide I have hazarded a thought-provoking analysis of the evolution of Nigeria’s minimum wage and its purchasing power over the years — where I compared the rising cost of living and the US dollar exchange rate — scientifically. In this part, I’m highlighting the

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Re: Africa Intelligence’s “Tinubu still struggling to organise foreign ministry, one year after election”;

Daily Dispatch June 30, 2024

Rebuffing the Falsehood Peddled by Africa Intelligence Article about the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry John Okeyson One of the fundamental principles of a true journalistic enterprise is objectivity and the propagation of truth based on research facts and data which enables the dissemination of concrete information to the public. The representation of […]

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Tinubu’s Fuel Subsidy Removal: A Year Of Economy Turmoil (Part 8)

Daily Dispatch June 30, 2024

By Erasmus Ikhide TWO major issues — among others — have been reeving, racking and cracking up the absord government of insensitivity and banal impunity of President Bola Amhed Tinubu’s Presidency in the last 15 months that have conjoined to tank Nigerian economy. One is the unthinkable completion of the Vice-President residence, Mr Kashim Shettima […]

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Nigeria and Presidential Democracy: Any Better Alternative? (1)

Daily Dispatch June 30, 2024

By Hassan Gimba This was first published on September 23, 2019. Considering the recent moves to return Nigeria to regionalism, I see the need to repeat it. Since man became aware of himself and realised that whether by mutual arrangement or contrived by nature, there are always leaders and followers, communities fashioned out ways and […]

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President Tinubu exposes Nigeria’s big thieves

Daily Dispatch June 28, 2024

By Tunde Odesola Have you ever been to Italy? Whether real or virtual, a visit to Italy will hypnotise you. Italy is the canvas painted by the gods of art, architecture, culture, literature, opera, fashion, food and history, spreading through the Pope-led Vatican City, whose independent government inside another city, Rome, is called the Holy […]

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The Book After Trial of Nuhu Ribadu

Daily Dispatch June 27, 2024

By Azu Ishiekwene It was different 16 years ago. Very different. At that time, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was relatively new and walking where angels feared to tread. That was unusual for a government institution, especially a law enforcement agency. So unusual that one of Nigeria’s most courageous social crusaders, Gani Fawehinmi, […]