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Change must begin with the leader

Daily Dispatch May 14, 2023

By Hassan Gimba This writing was first published on 6 July 2020. With changes of leadership soon at the federal and state levels, I see it as relevant. The first part in particular. However, do we forget the lessons in the second part? The world is changed by your example not by your

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Like play, like play, Amaechi has become irrelevant

Daily Dispatch May 13, 2023

By Comfort Obi Idon’t know if it is appropriate for the old saying, “How are the mighty fallen”, to come into play here. But chai, life is a joke. Full of ironies. Tosses us up and down. And, I just wonder, and ask myself, why we struggle, so much, to impress life, instead of allowing […]

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Who ate the fattest kidney: Buhari or Ekweremadu?

Daily Dispatch May 12, 2023

By Tunde Odesola They call him a prophet. Bob Marley. In one of his timeless songs entitled WAR, he preaches, “Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior, is finally, and permanently discredited, and abandoned, everywhere is war, me say war…” The wailing Jamaican philosopher goes on to list other conditions for […]

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Dangote Refinery Challenges Global Narrative

Daily Dispatch May 11, 2023

By Azu Ishiekwene It started like a grudge match. Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, was dealt a bad hand in a failed transaction. Later, he vowed revenge. Not in a pound of flesh, but by venturing to make his own success where he had been ambushed.  At issue was the decision of the government of […]

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Senate Presidency: Why Tinubu matters

Daily Dispatch May 8, 2023

By Sufuyan Ojeifo Olusegun Aremu Okikiolakan Obasanjo, a retired Army General and former Head of State of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, had won the February 27, 1999, presidential poll on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the expense of a former Minister of Finance and ex Secretary to the Government of […]

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Tinubu, Wike And South-South: A New Paradigm Shift

Daily Dispatch May 8, 2023

By Tunde Abatan There is no doubt that President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is up to new things and will employ different strategies to run his forthcoming government. Though he came in as a leader who got votes across the broad spectrum of the society, the fact remains that for now his approach even before being sworn […]