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Nigeria’s election and the pollster’s albatross

Daily Dispatch February 23, 2023

By Azu Ishiekwene With all the predictions of Armageddon and doubt about whether Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly polls would hold it does sound a bit silly to contemplate life after. Even those who grudgingly concede a life after fear it might be worse. Optimism is like playing

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Naira Notes Swap, President Buhari and the Currency Hoarding Governors – It is a case of Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves

Daily Dispatch February 20, 2023

By Bello M. Zaki I very much enjoyed Professor Chidi Odinkalu’s Naira notes swap discourse on Channels Television last Friday evening. The lawyer and a human rights activist was the first person I heard, except the government, taking the other side of the swap argument. Odinkalu, who swore he had never had anything good to […]

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Emefiele And 2023 Polls: Why Are We So Blessed?

Daily Dispatch February 20, 2023

By Ifeanyi Okechukwu From the ashes of the spoilers’ tactics of the First Republic, there is no let up yet in the game of playing good boy in the nation’s power dealers’ self-serving schemes that diminish our worth among the comity of the nations that constitute the Federal Republic of Nigeria. As an Igbo man, […]

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Elections, Cash Shortage, And Money Politics

Daily Dispatch February 20, 2023

By Kazeem Akintunde On Saturday, about 93.5 million Nigerians are expected to cast their votes to elect a new president for the country. The lucky man out of the 18 on the ballot will preside over the destiny of over 200 million Nigerians. Going by the 1999 constitution that we are presently operating, the lucky […]

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2023 Election: Are the security agencies ready for the el-Rufa’is?

Daily Dispatch February 19, 2023

By Hassan Gimba The death of a thousand good men is not as tragic as having an unfit man in a position of national leadership – Usman dan Fodio. The above quote by Sheikh Usman Ɗan Fodio, a Fulani philosopher, Islamic religious teacher, revolutionary, and leader who founded the Sokoto Caliphate and ruled as its first […]

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INTIMATE AFFAIRS: Are you his lover or his property?

Daily Dispatch February 18, 2023

By FUNKE EGBEMODE It is beautiful to be loved and pampered, spoilt with gifts and attention. We just celebrated Valentine’s Day and I think love is in the air, still. So, did you get a dozen roses, purple prose, candle-lit dinner and ended up on a rose petal strewn bed in a scented room? Ah, I […]