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Buhari’s Eight-Year Rule: A Postscript (2)

Daily Dispatch May 8, 2023

By Kazeem Akintunde President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday last week told Nigerians that he has delivered on most of his ‘change agenda’ upon which the APC anchored its promises to Nigerians eight years ago. Like a man conscious of his place in history, Buhari, while speaking at the inauguration

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My phone conversation with Dangiwa Umar over Tukur Mamu

Daily Dispatch May 7, 2023

By Hassan Gimba My column of last week with the title “Like Mamu, like Abdulsalami and the billion naira firefighter” drew the attention of Colonel Dangiwa Umar (retd). The respected senior citizen was more particular about the first part because I mentioned him. In the piece, I pointed out that Tukur Mamu, publisher of Kaduna-based […]

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Tinubu and the meaning of insanity

Daily Dispatch May 5, 2023

By Tunde Odesola I possess neither the intellect of Albert Einstein nor the anointing of Apostle Matthew, the tax collector and Jesus’ disciple. I’m only a Lagos-born hunter from Igbajo, the Citadel of the Brave — an inheritance of Osun State. Unlike Einstein and Matthew, I’m no Jew, no scholar, no philosopher. Never can I […]

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The Fowl of Mecca and Nigeria’s Census Palaver

Daily Dispatch May 4, 2023

By Azu Ishiekwene We have a measurement problem eloquently illustrated in a Yoruba tale about a Mecca has-been. The fellow in this tale had just returned from a pilgrimage to Mecca, apparently the first to do so in his community. Upon his return, folks were understandably curious and wanted to know about the Holy Land. […]

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Why must we rubbish all our institutions because of our tendencies?

Daily Dispatch May 3, 2023

By AJIBOLA BASIRU It is rather sad and disheartening, to say the least, that a body like the Nigerian Labour Congress that parades the finest crops of professionals which cut across the strata of the working population of the country will allow itself to be used as the body to denigrate, discredit, rubbish and threaten […]

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Mr. President You’re A Failure

Daily Dispatch May 3, 2023

By Emmanuel Onwubiko And he who sat upon the throne said, ‘Behold I make all things new. Also he said, ‘write this, for these words are trustworthy and true. -Rev21:5 Perhaps the illogical and irrational proposition that states that ‘when lies are told over and over again without being contradicted, it may be assumed to […]