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Cost of living crisis: A personal story

Daily Dispatch February 15, 2024

By Azu Ishiekwene I was going through some old files in my closet the other day when I saw some documents and receipts that absolutely cracked me up. Among the browning, time-worn papers was the receipt from a private primary school for the payment of my first daughter’s fees.  It was a

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RE: Ending The Affront To The Rule Of Law: A Response To Collins Nweke

Daily Dispatch February 14, 2024

By Magnus Agu magnusagu85@gmai.com Reading through the public letter by Collins Nweke, purportedly addressed to the new Chairman, House Committee on Diaspora Affairs I thought it would be something new, something different, something more intelligent.But it was all still same of the same I won’t bore you with a long treatise I think Collins Nweke […]

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Interrogating Kperogi’s Tinubu can’t govern like Buhari

Daily Dispatch February 14, 2024

By Bola BOLAWOLE turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 There is no denying the fact that Prof. Farooq Kperogi is as engaging as he is informed about Nigeria that he discusses with passion and flair. He writes with conviction and leaves no one in doubt he wants the best for his country, Nigeria. Many Nigerians have shed […]

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Bukar Abba Ibrahim: The man who touched my life (1)

Daily Dispatch February 11, 2024

By Hassan Gimba “He had a good heart, see where he died.”  “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” – Thomas Campbell “Daga Allah sai talaka,” (meaning service to the poor after that to God) was his campaign slogan. Bukar Abba Ibrahim was a man whose life was spent in service to […]

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Vox populi, vox Dei?

Daily Dispatch February 11, 2024

By Bolanle BOLAWOLE turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 “There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself. Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful. I am the state” – France’s King Louis XIV. France’s Bourbons king, Louis XIV (Born: 5 September, 1638; Died: […]

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President Tinubu is not deaf

Daily Dispatch February 9, 2024

By Tunde Odesola Daybreak Nigeria! All the make-up is gone now. On the forehead are lines of wrinkles. Short tears dry up midway down the sides of the nose, forming the ruthless eyeshadows of the tiger. The smile has turned into a sneer, the cheers are swallowed up by jeers, and laughter has ceased, seized […]