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The Gandujes and their detractors

Daily Dispatch May 6, 2024

By Zainab Suleiman Okino This is not the best of time for the embattled APC chairman, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje. It is also not the right time to be in opposition in a place like Kano state. We know politics is an endless cut-throat battle, but the intrigues and volatility of Kano politics is

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America, Iran and the abuse of democracy, human rights

Daily Dispatch May 5, 2024

By Hassan Gimba “One of the shrewdest ways for human predators to conquer their stronger victims is to convince them steadily with propaganda that they are still free.” N. A. Scott, American author. Every human being currently living on earth came to this world and saw the United States of America posing as the cradle of […]

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Giving Sanwo-Olu a bad name…

Daily Dispatch May 5, 2024

By Bolanle BOLAWOLEturnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 No one in a position of authority deliberately sets out to give himself a bad image. What usually happens is that aides, family members, friends, influencers, lobbyists, and those in the corridors of power deliberately or inadvertently crop up injuries or bad image for their principals. Some do this […]

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National amnesia whitewashes the White Lion

Daily Dispatch May 3, 2024

By Tunde Odesola Sleep is the next-door neighbour to good memory. This is the view of neurologist Andrew Budson and neuroscientist Elizabeth Kensinger in their book, “Why We Forget and How to Remember Better: The Science Behind Memory,” published in 2023 by Oxford University Press. It’s my considered view that lack of sleep can twist […]

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The Drama at EFCC and the challenges with corruption.

Daily Dispatch May 2, 2024

By Bolaji O. Akinyemi. Equity and justice are the greatest need of our society. All are presumed to be equal before the law, but it is what it is, a presumption! The reality of our administration of justice has dug a gulf between the rich & the poor, the haves and the have nots, those […]

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What’s in a Book? You’ll Never Know, Until…

Daily Dispatch May 2, 2024

By Azu Ishiekwene Earlier this week, I teased on my social handle about my encounter with a deity. Of course, not in the sense that one might meet a deity in the groove of a village forest. Yet, those who have met this man – who know him – might agree that Sam Amuka, fondly […]