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Akpabio’s Recipe For Justice Reforms In Nigeria

Daily Dispatch April 25, 2024

By Ola Awoniyi The Justice sector is one critical area of governance in Nigeria crying for reforms. It is not that there has never been some forms of reform in the sector. The point is that a lot more needed to be done. Evidence abound that in Nigeria today, both the poor and the rich […]

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Musings on Parties in Turmoil 

Daily Dispatch April 25, 2024

By Azu Ishiekwene Nigeria’s three main political parties – the All Progressives Congress (APC), the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and the Labour Party (LP) – are in turmoil. They have been infested by little foxes that threaten to damage and, potentially, destroy them. I know that discipline is not a virtue of political parties in […]

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Yoruba Nation: A house divided against itself…

Daily Dispatch April 24, 2024

By Bola BOLAWOLE turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 There is “two fighting”, as we used to say in those kindergarten days, between two prominent Yoruba Nation agitators – Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho and the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) leader, Gani Adams aka Iba Gani Adams and Are-Ona-Kakanfo. Igboho alleged that Gani Adams defamed him, damaged […]

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Needed: One standard hospital per state (2)

Daily Dispatch April 21, 2024

By Hassan Gimba Two days after I started taking the medication prescribed by Dr Heba, I could lift myself out of the wheelchair and walk about. By the fifth day, I walked into the hospital, gingerly, but surely, and came face to face with Dr Heba, who was not even surprised to see me on […]

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Yahaya Bello: Time To Review The Impunity of Immunity

Daily Dispatch April 21, 2024

By Bolanle BOLAWOLEturnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 To begin with, let me ask whether you knew that abusing the Naira is a worse offence than stealing or embezzling the Naira? You can steal billions of Naira and walk away free. But abuse the Naira and end up in jail with automatic alacrity! Worse still, you can […]

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Bobrisky, Cubana Chief Priest and Indabosky Bahose

Daily Dispatch April 19, 2024

By Tunde Odesola Abido Shaker! Life is a widening gyre where women fear cockroaches, cockroaches fear cocks, cocks fear men, and men fear women. A few years ago, Chukwemeka Cyril Ohanaemere was an ordinary name in Nigeria until fakery kissed bombast and vainglory took materialism to bed, birthing ‘The Lion Himself’, ‘The War’. ‘The Fight’, […]