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Buhari’s Legacy Puts Tinubu in Tight Spot

Daily Dispatch June 22, 2023

By Azu Ishiekwene  Those familiar with road travel before fancy luxury buses and jeeps displaced wooden-back Bedford light trucks, famously called mammy wagons, might remember this ubiquitous message in cursive, bright colours scrawled on the rear and sometimes on the sides of trucks plying

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Time For Military, Navy To Vacate Pipe Lines Protection, For NSCDC To Assume Its Constitutional Role

Daily Dispatch June 19, 2023

By Erasmus Ikhide ONE of the Niger Delta former Governors, in a chat told me late last year, how he accused the nation’s current Service Chiefs at a meeting in Abuja of their involvement in oil theft in the region. “You’re the actual pipe lines vandals and bunkers, beyond being precursors of oil theft”. In […]

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EFCC – The Haunted Hunter

Daily Dispatch June 18, 2023

By Kazeem Akintunde Since the establishment of the Economic and Crimes Commission (EFCC) in 2003 with a mandate to fight financial crimes and other related offences, successive chairmen of the agency have been removed in controversial circumstances. In the last 20 years, the agency has been headed by five different people and all have had […]

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Tinubu, get your own men

Daily Dispatch June 18, 2023

By Hassan Gimba “If we are true to ourselves, we cannot be false to anyone.” – William Shakespeare. Recently, there have been people saying they regret not voting for President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. To them, he has performed beyond expectations. In just three weeks? This is quite unprecedented because what we used to have were […]

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Bulkachuwa’s Buka; Where the Unjust Feed Fat on Justice.

Daily Dispatch June 16, 2023

By Bolaji O. Akinyemi. Suspicion concerning possible compromise of the judiciary was first raised by Atiku Abubakar after the 2019 Presidential election. The pioneer chair and President of the Court of Appeal then was Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa, she was forced to recuse herself from the panel following a petition by former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar […]

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Federal Republic of Alhaji Aliko Dangote and Fuel Subsidy Debacle (IV)

Daily Dispatch June 16, 2023

By Erasmus Ikhide PART four of this literary expository debate on how the ‘Richest Thief’ in Africa, bungled his way through business dominance and dehumanizing vanity by suppressing others; using corrupt political office holders’ stolen dirty funds, to furnish his atrocious greed; is truly engaging and revealing. I will be reeling out a few responses