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Tinubu: The Crowning of the Spiderman

Daily Dispatch June 2, 2023

By Tunde Odesola From football to jollof rice, and other sundry striving like music and acting, I love the healthy rivalry between Nigeria and Ghana. But truly, Ghanaians know which is the giant of the two countries just as Nigerians know that the tattered singlet of Musa at the gate is

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10th NASS: How Ex-Northwest Governors’ Interests May leave the Region bereft of its Traditional Leadership Position

Daily Dispatch June 1, 2023

By Bello M. Zaki From all indications, the Northwest geo-political region of Nigeria that hitherto secured one (or even more) of the four key positions of leadership in the country since the return of civil administration in 1999, will, in the present dispensation secure none. Many attribute the situation to the political interests of the […]

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Subsidy Removal Brouhaha: Let us think

Daily Dispatch June 1, 2023

By Kassim Afegbua In the last few days, infact, since President Tinubu made his inauguration pronouncement about subsidy, tongues have been wagging as to the propriety of this declaration. Let us first establish a few basic facts that are eternally unassailable. One, all the major contenders for the number one position, promised to remove subsidy […]

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Tinubu Biting the Bullet from Day One

Daily Dispatch June 1, 2023

By Azu Ishiekwene President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is under fire for announcing that petrol subsidy is gone from day one. His inauguration address also touched on a unified currency exchange, high interest rate and power, among others. Of all these, however, the one that got the headlines was petrol subsidy and the most frequently expressed […]

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Nigeria: Exit And Entrance Of Dementias (Part 1)

Daily Dispatch May 30, 2023

By Erasmus Ikhide THE exit of former President Muhammandu Buhari – the ailing northern religious irredentist and blighted hermit, and the entrance of President Bola Amhed Tinubu – a medically impaired character, who is over burdened by drugs, certificate forgery and identity scandals, have jointly been dancing on our national grave; desecrating the meaning of […]

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A Word For Obidients

Daily Dispatch May 30, 2023

By Mohammed Adamu PREAMBLEThe night before the ‘Inauguration’, (05/28/23), I found, in my desolate store room, some roache-eaten copy of Bode Sowande’s play, ‘The Night Before’. And I started reading and found I couldn’t stop, until I had traveled some 37 years back to my Alma mater, to find the truth of the 60’s R&B […]