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Mr President, salary hike won’t resolve the present hunger

Daily Dispatch March 3, 2024

By Hassan Gimba These days, the words dominating the air are “hunger” and “protest”. And that, we are told, is because of two others – “dollar” and “salary”. Unfortunately, those capitalising on the latter two words to push for the first two words hardly mention the words “production” and

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Oshiomhole’s ‘Funeral’

Daily Dispatch March 2, 2024

By Erasmus Ikhide YESTERDAY, I stumbled and listened attentively to Senator Adams Oshiomhole’s boisterous and shameful lamentation video, over his failure to hoist and foist his political poster child, — Hon. Dennis Idahosa — on Edo State All Progressives Congress (APC), during the primary ticket for Edo State Governorship election, slated for September 21, 2024.

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Will the Humble Pie Heal ECOWAS?

Daily Dispatch February 29, 2024

By Azu Ishiekwene The resolutions following the Extraordinary Summit of the Heads of Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), at the recently concluded summit of Heads of State and Government in Abuja, were truly extraordinary. Seven months after threatening to deploy force in Niger, one of the four delinquent states – the others […]

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Julius Abure And Nigeria Police As Criminal Enterprise

Daily Dispatch February 28, 2024

By Erasmus Ikhide ON Thursday the 22nd day of February 2024, the Nigeria Police Force further defamed its already battered and corrupt image by levitating its objectionable and abhorrently debased preoccupation to a grand act — with the commando-like brutalization and detention of Barrister Julius Abure — the National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP) […]

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Which life: Abraham’s or Lazarus’s?

Daily Dispatch February 28, 2024

By Bola BOLAWOLE turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 I wish to know today which type of life my readers will prefer to live: Abraham’s or Lazarus’s? Biblical Abraham was wealthy, was richly blessed and lived life to the hilt here on earth. He died and went to paradise or heaven. Conversely, Lazarus was poverty-stricken and lived […]

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Yahaya Bello: Did politics trump good governance? by Zainab Suleiman Okino

Daily Dispatch February 27, 2024

Like every other human endeavour, it is now time for the world to critically scrutinize and assess the administration of Alhaji Yahaya Bello (GYB), the immediate past governor of Kogi state. In the state’s peculiar form of political landscape, an objective evaluation of the governor’s