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Why Trump’s Trial Doesn’t Make America Special

Daily Dispatch April 13, 2023

By Azu Ishiekwene Donald Trump consolidated his record in demagoguery when he became the first former US president ever to be criminally indicted and arraigned in a Manhattan court on April 4.  He was the first US president to complain about an election he won and also the first to openly

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Open letter to Wole Soyinka

Daily Dispatch April 12, 2023

By Promise Adiele – Convener, Third Force Movement I greet you, sir. I crouch and genuflect before your domineering presence – the irrepressible man of letters, the first black man to win a Nobel Laureate. Despite your recent paradoxical posturing which suggests a striking alignment with corrosive forces in Nigeria, you remain a global totem […]

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Much Ado About ‘Thinks Fall Apart’.

Daily Dispatch April 11, 2023

By Mohammed Adamu All this bear-parlor talk about ‘no book has sold or was translated into more languages than ‘Things Fall Apart’ is ridiculous! No selection committee in search of ‘genius’ especially genius demonstrated in such highly cerebral field as literature, will bother itself which such pedestrian criteria! In any case if a tree in

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2023 Polls And It’s Sad Aftermath

Daily Dispatch April 10, 2023

By Kazeem Akintunde The 2023 General Elections have ended, but the ripples generated by the polls are yet to clear. Rather, the polity is heating up as the May 29 handover date draws near. The dramatis personae are up in arms, and have vowed to bring the roof down. Tension is high in the land as […]

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Time to relocate Maiduguri Monday Market

Daily Dispatch April 9, 2023

By Hassan Gimba Maiduguri, the capital and the largest city of Borno State, was founded in 1907 as a military outpost by the British colonial authority. It consists of two cities – Yerwa to the west and Old Maiduguri to the east. While Yerwa was founded in 1907 by Sheikh Abubakar Garbai as the capital of […]

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Postscript On The Elections

Daily Dispatch April 8, 2023

BY SEGUN AYOBOLU (Published in The Nation newspaper of Saturday, April 8, 2023) Even seemingly far more fierce than the battle among candidates and political parties to emerge triumphant particularly in the presidential election of February 25 is the ongoing contestation to demonstrate or disprove the legitimacy, credibility and integrity of the exercise. One would […]