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Still on COP28: Jamboree, profligacy or serious business

Daily Dispatch December 10, 2023

By Bolanle BOLAWOLE turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 My piece titled “COP 28: Jamboree, profligacy or serious business” has attracted so much traffic that I am constrained to return to the topic so soon. Two “thieves” are usually crucified on both sides of the Nigerian government or president,

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Tinubu and Frank Kokori: A reporter remembers

Daily Dispatch December 10, 2023

ByFestus Adedayo (Published by the Sunday Tribune, December 10, 2023) It was 25 years ago; Saturday, October 10, 1998 to be precise. We were all inside the living room of the Yaba, Lagos modest home of Frank Ovie-Kokori. We were waiting for our heroes. In the heat of the June 12, 1993 presidential election validation […]

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Odesola and Oyinlola: Omoluabi keeps their words.

Daily Dispatch December 9, 2023

By Bolaji O. Akinyemi. My routine for everyday life is fixed. Usually I must be up before 6:00AM when Word for Today; a special morning devotion with Joy and Bolaji Akinyemi is scheduled for. This of course will last the next 30 mins, after when the day finally starts with activities recorded against them. Fridays […]

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Oyinlola keeps his promise despite Tinubu’s victory (2)

Daily Dispatch December 8, 2023

By Tunde Odesola After reading the first part of this article last week, Oyinlola called me, and as my phone was ringing, I was tempted to fetch the bitter kola in my hunter’s pouch, take a bite, gargle some aromatic schnapps and chant the incantation, “Ohun ta wi fun ogbó, l’ogbó n gbo, ohun ta […]

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Ondo Back Story Imitates Insanity

Daily Dispatch December 7, 2023

By Azu Ishiekwene Ondo is one of Nigeria’s most enlightened states. It is, perhaps, side-by-side with Oyo, one of the most significant political bellwethers of the South-West. Apart from Olusegun Agagu’s four-year spell as governor, that state has maintained its progressive credentials in the last 24 years. But that illustrious tradition has fallen on bad […]

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Akpabio’s Diplomatese As Enabler

Daily Dispatch December 7, 2023

By Emmanuel Aziken Senator Godswill Akpabio’s jaunt into the diplomatic circuit as number three citizen was on the springboard of a lush background of accomplishments in the domestic arena. His arrival in Launda, Angola last October for the 147th meeting of the International Parliamentary Union, IPU, was as simple as he arrived at the Akwa […]