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Tinubu’s pieces of eight!

Daily Dispatch July 21, 2023

By Tunde Odesola Ahoy! Off to Treasure Island, I set sail. The sea is turbulent, the wind is violent; but go I must on this dangerous odyssey to Pirates’ underworld, where good and evil fruits grow on the same tree, where virtue and vice sleep in the same bed, where life is short and brutish

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Why Museveni Video Shames Africa

Daily Dispatch July 20, 2023

By Azu Ishiekwene There’s a trending video from nine years ago. If you watched it casually, you might in fact think that it was done yesterday. It was a clip of Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni, narrating what happened in 2014 when a delegation of African heads of state was asked by AU to mediate the […]

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Group Tells Sylva to be Objective about Diri

Daily Dispatch July 20, 2023

The Bayelsa Mandate Group (BMG) has advised a former governor of the state, Chief Timipre Sylva, to be objective in his assessment of the administration of Governor Douye Diri, advising him not to allow partisan politics to becloud his sense of judgment. The group, in a statement signed by its leader, Chief Nazuan Godfrey, asked […]

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Let Tinubu fix the EARTH and stop tokenism

Daily Dispatch July 19, 2023

By Yinka Aderibigbe Nigeria has been abuzz since President Bola Tinubu hinted about the imminent cash dole out by his administration. Now that he has got the nod of both chambers to draw a N500 billion out of the N850 billion earmarked in the supplementary budget for palliative, as well as the go ahead to […]

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State Police; Concerns, Recommendation on Structuring and Operations

Daily Dispatch July 17, 2023

By Bolaji O. Akinyemi. The only consolation Buhari’s victory in the 2015 election offered was hope in APC’s promise of Restructuring, for a nation held down by malicious military system, one that created states to the advantage of their cliques in Khaki and gave out Capital for reasons as debased as to their wives or […]

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The Tinubu Palliatives

Daily Dispatch July 16, 2023

By Kazeem Akintunde A few years back, government officials attached to Ifako/Ijaye Local Government area of Lagos State were in my mum’s house to get her details. She was told that the Federal Government was registering elderly Nigerians ahead of plans to pay them and those considered ‘less privileged’ a stipend of N5,000 monthly. At […]