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Obi-Oyedepo Leaked Audio: A Dangerous Slope

Daily Dispatch April 2, 2023

By Senator Iroegbu Over the weekend, a carefully choreographed propaganda war machine was unleashed, leading to supporters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate and President-elect, Mr. Bola Ahmed Tinubu (BAT), finding their voices again on social media. For a long time, APC knew

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A nation in need of peacebuilders, By Simon Kolawole

Daily Dispatch April 2, 2023

Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, the prominent Igbo politician and businessman, was in the news last week for his comments on the Yoruba-Igbo face-off in Lagos. Speaking at the first anniversary of Prof Chukwuma Soludo’s governorship of Anambra state, he appeared to be pursuing a raproachment between the two largest ethnic groups in southern Nigeria. But he […]

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Yobe, the state of party chairmen

Daily Dispatch April 2, 2023

By Hassan Gimba This is not what I had intended to discuss this week, but circumstances have given it priority. Yobe is a state that is blessed. Here, I am not talking about how blessed it is with peaceful and peace-loving people. No. Nor am I talking about the natural resources the Maker buried there. […]

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Buhari, Mele and Mungo Park

Daily Dispatch April 1, 2023

By Salisu Na’inna Dambatta The word, “exploration,” has put President Muhammadu Buhari, Mele Kolo Kyari, the Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Ltd and Mungo Park, the Scottish medical doctor, in a special category of people called explorers. History indicates that Mungo Park came to West

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On The Brink Oo Treason?

Daily Dispatch April 1, 2023

BY SEGUN AYOBOLU (Published in The Nation newspaper of Saturday, April 1st, 2023) It was certainly bound to come to this. I refer to this week’s press statement by the Department of State Security (DSS) warning those engaged in any agenda to truncate the country’s ongoing democratic process to desist from their plans or face […]

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Opinion: Mustapha Habib Ahmed: Significant Advances in Emergency Preparedness, Response, Mitigation, and Recovery

Daily Dispatch March 31, 2023

By Abdulkadir Ibrahim Mustapha Habib Ahmed was appointed as the new Director General of NEMA by President Muhammadu Buhari in June 2021. Following his appointment, I wrote an article titled Mustapha Habib: 100 Days of Strengthening Emergency Preparedness, Response, Mitigation, and Recovery, which was published in several National Dailies to commemorate his 100th day in