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2023: Outgoing herdsman, incoming Bala blu

Daily Dispatch January 16, 2023

By Tunde Odesola Are dogs clairvoyant? People in the market square believe so. Mouths ajar, traders watched as over half a dozen village dogs barked and wagged their tails menacingly against the three notorious town criers, raising dust and eyebrows. Protected by the king’s baton-wielding

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INEC, Insecurity And Next Month’s General Elections

Daily Dispatch January 16, 2023

By Kazeem Akintunde Nigerians, in a few weeks, will go to the poll to elect a new set of leaders. A new President is expected to emerge before the end of next month, all things being equal. New helmsmen at the state level either returning, or new faces would also emerge in about 28 states […]

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A look at Atiku’s campaign model

Daily Dispatch January 15, 2023

By Hassan Gimba Perhaps in the future, politicians, political analysts, strategists, scientists and consultants may want to look at one or two things here that make Alhaji Atiku Abubakar’s campaign what it is, especially its tenacity, perseverance, astuteness and personal ties. Between 1993 and this year, that’s thirty years, Atiku Abubakar, former vice president of […]

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Fraudulent Analogy of Naka Sai Naka

Daily Dispatch January 11, 2023

By: Mahmoud Jega The political “analogy” widely circulated on the social media in recent days by the Kaduna State Chapter of Naka Sai Naka [roughly translated as Only Yours] campaign, that the 2023 election in Nigeria is going to be analogous to the 1979 presidential election, deserves closer scrutiny. The group claims that “Peter Obi/Labour […]

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Threats to Nigeria’s 2023 Elections

Daily Dispatch January 10, 2023

By Reuben Abati From today, we have just about 47 days to Nigeria’s general elections, a major transition that would involve a change of government, the seventh since the return to civilian rule in 1999, but the biggest fear is that the current electoral process faces threats from different directions more than any other before […]

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High varsity Fees as Our Education is defined in Humour

Daily Dispatch January 9, 2023

 By Bello M. Zaki Whenever the tittle of ‘Minister of Education’ is mentioned, what comes to my mind is the erudite scholars that previously held that tittle, such as Late Professor Aliu Babs Fafunwa, the first Nigerian Professor of Education; Professor Jibril Aminu, an eminent professor of cardiology; late Babalola Borishade a professor of electrical engineering