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Bola Tinubu, may your road be rough!

Daily Dispatch March 14, 2023

By abiodun KOMOLAFE In the choice of a fitting title for this piece, the late Professor Tai Solarin, one of Nigeria’sforemost educators and social activists, readily came to mind. May the labour of our heroes’past not be in vain!That said, the title of the write-up suggests an overview of an

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Institutionalising failures in high places

Daily Dispatch March 14, 2023

By Zainab Suleiman Okino Recent developments in our polity have proved once again that our strongman mentality rather than strong institutions has rubbed off on some institutions we thought were fairly independent. Instead of ensuring strong institutions, we have only succeeded in institutionalising failures in high places. For the purpose of this write up, we […]

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Between Godwin Emefiele And Mahmood Yakubu

Daily Dispatch March 13, 2023

By Kazeem Akintunde The year 2023 is just three months old but two names that have had much impact on Nigerians in such a short time are those of Godwin Emefiele, the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and Mahmood Yakubu, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. Emefiele and Yakubu, […]

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If I were Tinubu: Like Solomon to Jeroboam, from Obasanjo to Tinubu

Daily Dispatch March 12, 2023

By Segun Adeleye With the declaration of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as the president-elect, Nigeria has taken another bold step forward in its democratic journey since May 29, 1999 when the election of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo ended multiple decades of military rule that began in 1966 with interruption only by a brief period of democracy from […]

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Now that we have arrived (in) Rwanda

Daily Dispatch March 12, 2023

By Festus Adedayo Just before genocide broke out in Rwanda in 1994, a broadcaster on the Radio Television Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM) had said: “Someone must … make them disappear for good … to wipe them from human memory … to exterminate the Tutsi from the surface of the earth.” That statement, among others, […]

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Nigeria: Divided in Flesh, United in Spirit

Daily Dispatch March 12, 2023

By Hassan Gimba This was first published on 20/08/2018 but it is still relevant, more so now that the presidential election held on 25/02/2023 has exposed our weaknesses. Outsiders, especially foreigners and Nigerians in Diaspora, may think that the bubble could burst any time soon and Nigeria could go to war with itself. They may […]