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How Akpabio’s Leadership Secured Nigeria’s Electoral Future

Daily Dispatch February 20, 2026

By. Rt Hon Eseme Eyiboh mnipr In the evolving story of Nigeria’s democratic consolidation, few issues have provoked as much intensity as electoral reform. The signing into law of the Electoral Act (Repeal and Re-enactment) Bill 2026 by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu marked another chapter in this

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Tinubu, el-Rufai and the cobra

Daily Dispatch February 20, 2026

By Tunde Odesola (Published in The PUNCH, on Friday, February 20, 2026) If they were not venomous, snakes would probably garland the necks of the rich and the influential to delineate social class. With a body handwoven by its Creator, the snake is the most awesome creature, epitomising engineering fluidity among wildlife. Its fleeting mobility, […]

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The Road to A Doctor’s Nigeria

Daily Dispatch February 19, 2026

By Azu IshiekweneThere Was a Country, lamented Chinua Achebe, Nigeria’s literary icon and one of the world’s greatest storytellers. Achebe’s title evokes many things in the mind beyond its primary thematic concern – a journal of the author’s experiences of the Biafran War, which raged between 1967 and 1970. Among other things, it raises the […]

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Opinion: El-Rufai and the Perils of Playing Speed Chess in a Long-Game Arena

Daily Dispatch February 17, 2026

By Sunday Oladapo Malam Nasir El-Rufai has never lacked intelligence. From the political turbulence of the Olusegun Obasanjo/Atiku Abubakar era to the high-stakes maneuvering before the 2023 elections, he proved himself a sharp strategist, unafraid of confrontation and adept at political brinkmanship. But politics evolves, and so do its battlegrounds. What worked in one

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The North and Politics of Anger

Daily Dispatch February 17, 2026

By Kabiru Danladi Lawanti We are back again to a familiar scenario. Since the return of democracy in Nigeria, the North has repeatedly found itself in a precarious situation – especially during election campaign years. It is a pattern that has been observable since around 2000, when sections of the northern elite concluded that President […]

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Beyond the Noise: Godswill Akpabio and the Architecture of Stability

Daily Dispatch February 16, 2026

By Rt. Hon. Eseme Eyiboh, mnipr Nigerian politics is not for the faint-hearted. It is noisy, dramatic, and often unforgiving. In a space where rumours travel faster than facts and headlines are written before the full story is known, substance can easily be drowned out. Real governance — the slow, patient work of building consensus, […]