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What You Might Expect in 2024

Daily Dispatch December 28, 2023

By Azu Ishiekwene “Subsidy on petrol will go, sparking initial higher prices and demand for higher public sector wages by union leaders who know the truth but prefer to play to the gallery. To tackle the scandalous difference between the official and black-market exchange rates, expect the new

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In six months, what has Tinubu achieved?

Daily Dispatch December 28, 2023

By Bola BOLAWOLE turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 While he was visiting President Bola Ahmed Tinubu recently, the Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, said he would give the president one year of grace before rating his performance in office. As would be expected, Tinubu and or Soyinka haters have read negative meanings into that. Soyinka, some […]

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Rivers State comedy of errors and the Emefiele mess

Daily Dispatch December 27, 2023

By Zainab Suleiman Okino The Former Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele finally got a respite last Friday when he was released from Kuje prison after meeting his bail conditions, but not before his alleged atrocious and unfathomable heist was made public, to his eternal disgrace. Emefiele was arrested by the Tinubu led […]

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In six months, what has Tinubu achieved?

Daily Dispatch December 27, 2023

By Bola BOLAWOLE turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 While he was visiting President Bola Ahmed Tinubu recently, the Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, said he would give the president one year of grace before rating his performance in office. As would be expected, Tinubu and or Soyinka haters have read negative meanings into that. Soyinka, some […]

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The Removal of Wall of Jericho In Akure: Welcome Development, My Fear

Daily Dispatch December 26, 2023

By Sunday Adewale Menukuro There is no doubt that the removal of the solid walls, otherwise called ‘Odi Jericho’ erected at middle of the major road on Oba Adesida road, between the post office and Texaco filling station, is a welcome development. This is obvious as majority of the people around the ‘Oja Oba’ market […]

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Rivers must not overflow, Mr President!

Daily Dispatch December 24, 2023

By Hassan Gimba Rivers, a state so rich because God blessed it with an abundance of crude oil and gas, is named after the many rivers that border its territory. Forty per cent of Nigeria’s output of crude oil is produced in the state. It also has deposits of silica sand, glass sand and clay. […]