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From Collapse to Renewal: A Call for Power Sector Reform: A clarion call to President Tinubu

Daily Dispatch January 24, 2026

Yesterday, 23rd January 2026, Nigerians were once again offered an expected but unwanted New Year gift! – The national grid succumbed once again thus throwing the nation and our economy into darkness… It is hardly surprising that the grid continues to collapse. With inadequate funding,

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Tinubu’s Calculated Consensus: Why APC’s Expanding Control Signals Strategic Leadership, Not Hegemony

Daily Dispatch January 24, 2026

The growing control of the All Progressives Congress (APC) across Nigeria’s political map is not an accident of power or a fluke of circumstance. With the party now governing about 30 out of 36 states—and indications that the number could rise—critics are quick to cry “hegemony.” Supporters, however, see something far more instructive: the unmistakable […]

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Mr. President, Wike has done enough•Abandoned FCT…wrecking Rivers State-–he has to go

Daily Dispatch January 24, 2026

By Musa Pai Two of Nigeria’s most consequential power centres today are the Federal Capital Territory and Rivers State. One is the seat of national authority and the symbol of our collective future; the other is the country’s energy nerve centre. Stability, competence, and restraint are therefore non-negotiable in the governance of both. What Nigeria […]

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Chimamanda: The stethoscope as hangman’s noose (2)

Daily Dispatch January 23, 2026

By Tunde Odesola (Published in The PUNCH, on Friday, January 23, 2026) The pigeon and the chicken are not neighbours. It is the heavy rain that fell which made them strange bedfellows. The pigeon is the priest of the air, the chicken is the scratcher on land. Long before the first corn sprouted, long before […]

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Towards a better understanding of diplomatic terms and practice in Nigeria

Daily Dispatch January 22, 2026

By Sola Enikanolaiye Introduction Over time, it has been observed that diplomatic terms and practices are largely misused and misunderstood in Nigeria. There are publications in the media and commentators who, in their public discourses, make glaring errors, blunders, goofs, and sometimes misinterpret diplomatic terms in the context of Nigeria’s diplomatic practices.

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We Owe Putin an Unreserved Apology

Daily Dispatch January 22, 2026

By Azu Ishiekwene As US President Donald J. Trump marks his first year in office by expanding his wish list from making Canada the 51st State of America to seizing and renaming the Panama Canal, and now taking Greenland by any means, if he cannot get the Nobel Peace Prize, spare a thought for Russian […]