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What Should Tinubu Do About the Assembly?

Daily Dispatch May 18, 2023

By Azu Ishiekwene Two presidents in the last 24 years provide interesting examples of how to relate with the National Assembly. And between the two, the President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, can decide how to model his relationship withthe 10th National Assembly. The first example is President

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Gen. Buratai: The Sahara Reporters And Yellow Journalism

Daily Dispatch May 15, 2023

By: James Bwala The Sahara Reporters, an online daily, excels at the profession of journalism without ethics. No thanks to the Sahara team’s wolves’ reporters’ lack of professionalism in their reporting. The journal has recently resumed pushing its well-known tendencies after failing in their previous attempt to malign the character of the former Army

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On Seun: The Vulture Does Not Know The Price Of A ‘Horse’

Daily Dispatch May 15, 2023

By Mohammed Adamu Endsarsists and their Obidient soul mates may not know it, but their newfound patriotic grandstanding over Seun’s misadventurous slap of a policeman, provides fitting antithesis to a time-honored Hausas saying: ‘angulu bai san kudin doki ba’! Meaning ‘the vulture does not know the price of a horse’s! Because if it does, it

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Who Will Speak For Citizen David Nwamini Ukpo?

Daily Dispatch May 14, 2023

By Kazeem Akintunde While putting to ‘bed’ last week’s column titled: ‘Buhari’s Eight-Year Rule: A Postscript (2)’, a friend called to suggest that I should write on the travails of the former Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, who was recently sentenced to nine years in prison, alongside his wife, Beatrice, and their Doctor, Obinna Obeta, […]

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World Press Freedom Day 2023: A Farewell to Out-going Governors that stifled People’s Rights of Expression

Daily Dispatch May 14, 2023

By Bello M. Zaki A major take-away from this year’s World Press Freedom Day activities in Nigeria was an order by a civic rights group, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), to President Buhari’s administration: In a Twitter post, the group says: “Buhari administration must stop state governors from using the unlawful provisions of section […]

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When A Man’s Manhood Is Threatened

Daily Dispatch May 14, 2023

By Funke Egbemode Whether he is giving sperm or money, a man’s manhood feels rock solid only when he is the giver. All normal men are divinely wired to give. I hope you noticed the emphasis on normal men because not all men are normal. Forget the six-pack abdomen and rippling biceps, many of today’s […]