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One year later: what value has Tinubu added to our lives? –2

Daily Dispatch June 19, 2024

By Bola BOLAWOLEturnpot@gmail.com. 0807 552 5533 There is hardly anyone who does not aspire to add value to their life. Everyone wants to make progress. Everyone wants a better life. That was the expectation of Nigerians, especially the suffering masses, when President Bola Ahmed Tinubu assumed

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Organised Labour or citizens’ rage?

Daily Dispatch June 18, 2024

By Zainab Suleiman Okino Whether the national workforce is 720,000 at the federal level and about 90,000 at sub-national level, the number of public servants (constituting the labour force) represented by Organised Labour that the Nigerian government must contend with over the new minimum wage is grossly insignificant in comparison with the number of angry […]

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Democracy Day: Of what benefit to starving Nigerians?

Daily Dispatch June 18, 2024

By Bolanle BOLAWOLEturnpot@gmail.com 07052631058 Last week Wednesday, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu marked the second Democracy Day in office. Ordinarily it ought to have been an occasion of great celebration for Tinubu in particular for his pro-democracy credentials and the role he played, known and unknown, to shift Democracy Day from May 29 to June 12. […]

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Tinubu’s 1st year: Democracy in a time of cholera

Daily Dispatch June 17, 2024

By Steve Osuji  The tin-god democrat: This column can state categorically that President Bola Tinubu is not a democrat. He is a power monger who has climbed on the back of democracy to grab power. For him, democracy is a highway maiden who’s services he procures to sate his appetite.  Tinubu’s vice grip on Lagos […]

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Tinubu’s Fuel Subsidy Removal: A Year Of Economy Turmoil (Part 7)

Daily Dispatch June 17, 2024

By Erasmus Ikhide THIS morning, I read Bayo Onanuga, the Special Adviser to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Information and Strategy’s response to the New York Times’ blighted and damning report — as we know it — on the nation’s economy woes on June 11, tilted: “Nigeria Confronts Its Worst Economic Crisis in a Generation”. […]

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States’ emergency declaration on education and the Buni vision

Daily Dispatch June 16, 2024

By Hassan Gimba In the past few months, there has been some incessant din over the plight of education across the country, how deplorable it has become and concerns over how to bring it out of the shambles it has been shovelled into as a result of long-term negligence by those who should nurse it after benefitting […]