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The Trouble with Obasanjo’s Wish

Daily Dispatch January 5, 2023

By Azu Ishiekwene I’m sure he expected the firestorm. As is his custom, he primed and released it to explode at his own time and season. If the letter by former President Olusegun Obasanjo endorsing Labour Party’s Peter Obi had gone unnoticed, uncriticised, and un-replied, then it would not

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Muslim Muslim Tickets: A Jihadist Agenda Against Christians

Daily Dispatch January 4, 2023

By Bolaji O. Akinyemi Fundamentalists are usually very well structured in their drive to establish an Islamic State. They can be connected and yet appear as if they are at cross-purposes, they operate an extremely complex network and very deceptive system to the undiscerning. You will find if hard to connect Tinubu and El-Rufai ideologically, […]

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My life or His Publicity? When Zulum made a call

Daily Dispatch January 4, 2023

By Isa Gusau Our boss, Governor Babagana Umara Zulum, my family and closest friends wouldn’t like what I am about to publicly reveal. I deeply apologise. Last week, I had a surgery at Max Multi Speciality Hospital in New Delhi, India. The surgery, which doctors categorised as a ‘high risk’ was around my chest wall […]

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Is the diaspora now about rubbishing those at home?

Daily Dispatch January 3, 2023

By Professor Toyin Falola I am so sad as I write this. I never knew that things will become so bad. Immigrant scholars in the US have now become like the Europeans in 19th century Africa, the colonizers who saw nothing good about the continent. This is now the intellectual stuff on the Internet. I […]

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What’s the worth of Obasanjo’s endorsement?

Daily Dispatch January 2, 2023

By Fredrick Nwabufo Former President Olusegun Obasanjo used to be a chimera. His influence was mythical yet sweeping. In the past, Nigeria was too small to contain his stature — as he dominated the horizons across Africa and beyond. He lived up to his legend of being a human Orisa. He is, perhaps, still one […]

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How Tinubu Trashed Obasanjo in 2003…

Daily Dispatch January 2, 2023

By Alhaji Kehinde Olaosebikan History Beckons as Tinubu Sure of Making a Mincemeat of Obasanjo’s Obi on February 25, 20 Years AfterHere is an account of that versatile journalist and custodian of History, Alhaji Kehinde Olaosebikan on how Tinubu defeated Obasanjo on all grounds as a sitting, most powerful President in the world then and […]