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An Indolent Labour Union And Matters Arising

Daily Dispatch November 19, 2023

By Hassan Gimba There is no Nigerian that will tell you he is not aware of the NLC even if he does not know that it is an acronym for the Nigeria Labour Congress. What the average Nigerian knows about them is that they always go on strike at the drop of a hat, strikes […]

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Tinubu, The Baobab

Daily Dispatch November 19, 2023

By Professor Kehinde Yusuf President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Yoruba ethnic group has an interesting proverb about ascendancy: Eni t’ó bá ma ga, esè rè á tínrín. (‘Those who would be tall cannot avoid having thin legs.’) Being tall here is the metaphor for recording the highest levels of achievement or reaching the highest rungs on […]

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Travelling through Nigeria in Tinubu’s yacht

Daily Dispatch November 17, 2023

By Tunde Odesola By the Rivers of Babylon, there I sat down; yeah, I wept, when I remember N-i-g-e-r-i-a. Verily, verily I say unto you, these words that I write, are words of redemption and wisdom. Therefore, I beseech you, brethren, to keep these words in your hearts, inscribe them in stones and scribble them […]

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Can We Survive The “Attack” of Big Tech?

Daily Dispatch November 16, 2023

By Azu Ishiekwene “Every morning a lion wakes up, it knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve to death…It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle, you better be running” First attributed to Dan Montano in The Economist, but popularised by Thomas Friedman in The World is Flat. […]

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Understanding Akpabio’s Thesis On The Imperative Of Legislative Compliance

Daily Dispatch November 15, 2023

 By Emeka Nwosu, PhD. At a recent leadership retreat of the Senate Committee on Legislative Compliance, the Senate President, Senator Godswill Obot Akpabio, raised a very vital point on the challenges the National Assembly has continued to face over the years in its working relationship with the Executive arm of government. Akpabio, who was represented […]

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When Nigerians lose interest in democracy, what next?

Daily Dispatch November 15, 2023

By Bola BOLAWOLE turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 For forms of government, let fools contest. Whatever is best administered is best – Alexander Pope. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable – US President John F. Kennedy. Let me start by saying that a good number of Nigerians have lost faith in […]