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Press freedom, intelligence power, and Nigeria’s democratic signal to West Africa

Daily Dispatch February 6, 2026

By Ademola Oshodi West Africa’s democratic breakdowns have increasingly followed a predictable sequence. Civic space narrows, dissent is reframed as a security problem, and coercive institutions begin to set the boundaries of permissible speech long before constitutions are suspended. In that

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Descending from Fela’s Afrobeat to Wizkid’s Afrobeats (2)

Daily Dispatch February 6, 2026

By Tunde Odesola (Published in The PUNCH, on Friday, February 6, 2026) Once upon a time, long before brazenness dissolved into the air inhaled by youths, Àkèré, the son of Onítùre, was a prince in an Ọ̀yọ́ village called Ìkẹyọ̀. In lands faraway, Àkèré is called Frog, but within the southwestern land of Nigeria called […]

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Tinubu’s Diplomatic Offensive, Foreign Trips, and Strategic Gains

Daily Dispatch February 5, 2026

….A harvest Nigeria cannot ignore By Jude Obioha In Nigerian politics, perception often travels faster than facts. Few issues illustrate this better than the chorus of criticism surrounding President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s foreign trips. For months, critics have framed his diplomatic engagements as excessive travel, as political optics over substance. But that narrative

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Economic reforms: How did President Tinubu uniquely reshape Nigeria’s economy?

Daily Dispatch February 4, 2026

By: Dr Abolade Agbola In a few months, the economic reforms of the government of President Tinubu will be three years old, while the government will be on the last lap of its four-year first-term mandate. The President’s statement at his inauguration on the 29th May 2023, that “the fuel subsidy was gone,” ushered in […]

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Emerging World Order and Africa’s Lessons from the Trump Era

Daily Dispatch February 3, 2026

By Oumarou Sanou The post–Cold War international order was never perfect, but it rested on an implicit bargain: economic integration, shared security frameworks, and a rules-based multilateral system that, however asymmetrical, offered predictability. Today, that fragile system is cracking. What we are witnessing is not merely a shift in global power centres; it is a […]

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IPOB’s Sit-at-home Order And The South East Economy

Daily Dispatch February 2, 2026

By Kazeem Akintunde In the last five years in the five South Eastern states of Anambra, Imo, Abia, Enugu, and Ebonyi, Mondays have been declared sit-at-home days, meaning a no-work day. The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), in 2021, ordered that Mondays be observed as a no-work-day in those states in solidarity with their leader, […]