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Reinventing, Restructuring, Renovating, Panel-beating, Nigeria or What? – 1

Daily Dispatch February 25, 2024

By Bolanle BOLAWOLE turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 Politics apart, the aggregate of opinion is that Nigeria is in a very bad shape; opinion is divided, though, on what needs to be done to return it to a better shape. Has this become a mission impossible? Can Nigeria be salvaged or is it beyond

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Re-Bukar Abba Ibrahim: The man who touched my life

Daily Dispatch February 25, 2024

By Hassan Gimba (Readers’ reactions) Salaamu alaykum. I saw your tribute to late Senator Bukar Abba Ibrahim, may Allah (SWT) grant him mercies with jannatul firdaus. I read it today and was touched by your powerful pen. Your late father, Sulaiman Gimba Ahmed, was a humble and quiet person who worked with me in 1979 […]

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Should elected Nigerian leaders undergo psychiatric tests?

Daily Dispatch February 23, 2024

By Tunde Odesola Guitar Boy, Sir Victor Uwaifo, is dead. But the ‘Mami Water’, which he saw at the Bar Beach and sang about in 1966 when he was just 25 years old, lives on. Today, the ‘Mami Water’ swam all the way up from the deep and boomed through a giant loudspeaker at the […]

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APC Digging Its Own Grave in Edo

Daily Dispatch February 22, 2024

By Azu Ishiekwene Nigeria’s politicians have perfected the art of burying themselves with one foot sticking out. And it appears that the All Progressives Congress (APC) will, once again, stage this rite of self-destruction in the forthcoming governorship election in Edo State. The party’s primaries on Saturday was such a shambles, it has now been […]

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Kashim Shettima: Abati’s response and Rufai’s reactions to hunger in the land

Daily Dispatch February 21, 2024

By: Dr. James Bwala The Arise News TV morning show of Wednesday, February 21, 2024, like others before it, is a butchers table where thoroughbred professionals are supposed to be speaking to Nigerians on matters that affect them. However, while a professional like Dr. Reuben Abati would tailor his responses to journalistic professionalism, his colleague […]

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A response to the North’s attack on Tinubu

Daily Dispatch February 21, 2024

By Bola BOLAWOLE turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 In fact, what you are about to read is a two-pronged response to a two-pronged attack on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu by two notable Northern leaders. The attack by the Sultan of Sokoto was responded to by the Yoruba Nation activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho, while […]