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ODE TO THE KONGI AND THE ‘BITCH’. A Parody Of Shakespeare

Daily Dispatch May 3, 2023

By Mohammed Adamu PROLOGUEIt took the French sociologist, Emile Durkheim, pages after pages of textbook outpouring to explain his view of the ‘anomic’ society as the degenerate, “normless state”, or one in which there is “total breakdown of normative values”.

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2023: Annulment? Tufiakwa!

Daily Dispatch May 2, 2023

By Kassim Afegbua Just this last weekend, I compared notes with my sources in the Obi and Atiku camps; both of them told me of their plans to stampede the tribunal judges through blackmail, to effect an annulment of the 2023 elections; the most credible elections I have seen in recent times. With the assurances […]

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Baba, Abeg Free Us

Daily Dispatch May 2, 2023

By Tunde Olusunle It is just fitting that several words and expressions which etymology derive from Nigeria, have found their ways into global dictionaries. As at 2020, nearly 30 such inventions had been accommodated by the Oxford Dictionary. They include: okada, tokunbo, gist, k-leg, mama put,ndanfo, bukateria, chop, eat money, among others. Kannywood, ember months, […]

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The Proxy War In Sudan

Daily Dispatch April 30, 2023

By Kazeem Akintunde “All countries have a sovereign right to decide which other countries to partner with, but these choices have consequences, of course.”- John Godfrey- US First Envoy to Sudan After 25 Years Make no mistake about it, the ongoing war in Sudan is beyond two Generals fighting for control of the soul of […]

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Like Mamu, like Abdulsalami and the billion naira firefighter

Daily Dispatch April 30, 2023

By Hassan Gimba In a move normally seen in Hollywood spy thrillers, Tukur Mamu, publisher of Kaduna-based Desert Herald and an aide to Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, a popular Islamic cleric, was arrested in September last year at the Cairo International Airport on his way to Saudi Arabia for lesser Hajj, and detained for 24 hours before he […]

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What Nigeria’s Election Cannot Teach Does Not Exist

Daily Dispatch April 27, 2023

By Azu Ishiekwene Nigeria’s February/March elections undid many things. One of them was the 63-year-old myth that no wealthy and ambitious candidate could emerge president. Until the last presidential election. Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Nigeria’s president between 1963 and 1966, came close. But while ownership of his extensive and authoritative newspaper chain made him