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Will Tinubu Tread Salisu Buhari’s Path?

Daily Dispatch October 5, 2023

By Ike Abonyi. “In the beginning, some people try to appear that everything about them is “in black and white,” until later their true colours come out.” ― Anthony Liccione A striking fact about telling the truth and lying is that one is not difficult to do; the other needs

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The Naira And Challenges Facing The New CBN Governor

Daily Dispatch October 1, 2023

By Kazeem Akintunde On May 29, when President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was sworn in as the 16th President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the dollar at the black market exchanged at the rate of N758/$1. But at the Investors and Exporters (I&E) window of the foreign exchange market, it was sold at N464/67/$1. Mr. […]

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Nothing For Atiku

Daily Dispatch October 1, 2023

By JESUTEGA ONOKPASA I have noticed a degree of what is totally unwarranted anxiety over the implication of the Illinois court’s decision regarding President Bola Tinubu’s university records but the simple truth is that there is absolutely nothing for anyone to be at all bothered about. Contrary to the cheap propaganda and stomach churning spin […]

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Nigeria @ 63: A nation in need of a just society

Daily Dispatch October 1, 2023

by Hassan Gimba This text was published three years ago when Nigeria marked its 60th year of independence. Nothing has changed except for the age, now at 63, as the conditions remain the same. The text is therefore being reprinted today with only one change: @60 has been replaced by @63. Nigeria ought to be […]

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The humiliating troika of Obasanjo, Shettima and Bakare (1)

Daily Dispatch September 29, 2023

By Tunde Odesola Like humans, words have birthplaces. Russia is the birthplace of the word troika. In the once-upon-a-communist-but-now-a-democratic-capitalist country, troika means ‘a group of three’. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines a troika as a Russian vehicle drawn by a team of three horses abreast. As a Yoruba expression, ‘i-k-a’, the last three alphabets of

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A School Crime Scene That Won’t Go Away

Daily Dispatch September 28, 2023

By Azu Ishiekwene In the Bible, Keren-happuch was the youngest of the three beautiful daughters of Job, who against the norms of a patriarchal society, inherited her father’s vast latter-day wealth along with her two other sisters. But in the sometimes inexplicable twist of fate, this is the story of another Keren-happuch whose sun set […]