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Barrister Portable And Nigeria Value Restructuring At The NBA

Daily Dispatch September 6, 2023

By Bolaji O. Akinyemi. The change of leadership in the Country and its consequences on our social values is already being felt. A new direction for our entertainment and culture was rolled out at the Nigerian Bar Association in grand style. The age-long song, “Bata re a dun ko ko

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Rwanda’s Lessons for Nigeria’s Future

Daily Dispatch September 5, 2023

By Ndubuisi Ekekwe In the realm of governance and development, there are few tales as compelling as that of Rwanda, whose journey from the abyss of genocide to becoming a beacon of progress has inspired people across the African continent and beyond. As the Nigeria Governors’ Forum and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) recently […]

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Is Africa Jinxed?

Daily Dispatch September 4, 2023

By Kazeem Akintunde ‘I Dream of an Africa, which is in peace with itself’- Nelson Mandela Since January this year, Africa has been in the news for the wrong reasons. In fact, conventional Western media have always aired news about poverty, hunger, illegal migration, coups, and sit-tight leaders from the African continent. This is depressing […]

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Resurgence of coups in Africa and the panacea,

Daily Dispatch September 3, 2023

By Hassan GimbaIn the past three years, at least eight African countries have witnessed military coup d’états. This is coming when it was thought that Africa’s democracy had come of age when we were beginning to think that coups had gone for good, consigned to an era in the past when African governments were led […]

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The ‘Myth’ and The ‘Reality’ of Writing (Part One)

Daily Dispatch September 2, 2023

By Mohammed Adamu. THE MYTH PREAMBLEOf the many mythological Greek gods of antiquity, was a wings-footed deity named ‘Caerus’, -the grandson of Zeus who reputedly went about incognito and on a tiptoe, with a tuft of hair-shoot on his forehead. And the omens were that whoever were vigilant enough to discern his presence, may grab […]

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Ministers: Now The Ball In Your Court

Daily Dispatch September 1, 2023

By Tunde Rahman TWICE in one week, firstly while inaugurating the new ministers on August 21 and later speaking during the maiden Federal Executive Council meeting on August 28, President Bola Tinubu issued stern directives to the new ministers to immediately begin work and perform creditably in order to restore people’s faith in government. “Nigeria […]