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SGF & COS; Conflict of Human Elements and its Impact on the Performance of the President.

Daily Dispatch August 27, 2023

By Bolaji O Akinyemi. The office of the Chief of Staff was an invention of President Olusegun Obasanjo, patterned after the American model. The duties of the office are assigned by its Principal. Primarily it is meant to focus on managing the flow of information and people; serving as adviser

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What is good for Adeosun should also be good for Musawa

Daily Dispatch August 25, 2023

By Simon Reef Musa She is the Minister of Art, Culture and Creative Economy. Very brilliant and cultured. I have not met her, but had telephone conversations sometimes between 2005 and 2007 when I was the Editor, Leadership Sunday. Then, she was the back page columnist for the Sunday edition. I am presently disturbed by […]

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Niger or Nigerian: The Choice Before Northern Political Leaders.

Daily Dispatch August 25, 2023

By Ahmed Abdullahi. For as long as one can remember, Northern Nigeria has always wanted to eat it’s cake and have it. Building an independent, homogenous entity in a complex, multi ethnic, multireligious society. The Niger coup crisis has dominated headlines for quite some time now. Sadly, the whole debacle, again, like so many others […]

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Oluwo and Sulu-Gambari scratching the nose with cobra head (1)

Daily Dispatch August 25, 2023

By Tunde Odesola Before anything else, let’s do with some laughter because this is a sobering journey into time – a journey gathering hailstones, lightning and thunder – tools to be unleashed in the cases of royal injustice and intolerance in Iwo and Ilorin. A good laugh is a drink to wash down the two […]

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Gas Car Rigmarole, Questions Tinubu Can’t Ignore

Daily Dispatch August 24, 2023

By Azu Ishiekwene It was not meant to be this way. But like a good number of things Nigerian, the story is hardly complete without a twist in the tale. And so it has been for at least three years now with the story of the gas car that was supposed to lessen, if not […]

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Niger Republic: ECOWAS’ war and peace options

Daily Dispatch August 23, 2023

By Tunde Rahman Are war and peace mutually exclusive? This is one important question that has dominated the attention of scholars and students in the area of conflict resolution across time and space. The answer, however, varies with different schools of scholarship. For instance, one academic contends that both war and peace are mutually exclusive, […]