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2023: When Friends Speak For Kashim Shettima

Daily Dispatch December 20, 2022

By: James Bwala Friends mounted at UYK Hotel in Garki 2 Abuja to deepen relationship and give support for the emergence of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Kashim Shettima come 2023. The convergence brought party-men, former Bankers and well wishers together to brainstorm towards a move to

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Qatar 2022 World Cup: An Ode To The Beautiful Game

Daily Dispatch December 19, 2022

By Kazeem Akintunde The curtain has finally drawn on Qatar 2022 World Cup with Argentina beating the defending Champion, France, to lift the glittering trophy for the third time in their soccer career. The trophy had birthed in Argentina in 1978, and again in 1986. The tournament also brings to a glorious end, the soccer […]

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Ronaldo: Grass, grace and grief

Daily Dispatch December 19, 2022

By Tunde Odesola Cristiano Ronaldo wasn’t born in a manger to a carpenter father and a virgin mother. His father was a soldier who fought in Angola for imperialist Portugal in the 1970s while his mother was a cleaner and cook. Ronaldo’s father, José Dinis Aveiro, a drunkard, died in 2005 from liver failure. His […]

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Hon. Gudaji Kazaure’s N370 billion Commission from CBN ‘investigation’ Bounty and Public Interest

Daily Dispatch December 18, 2022

By Bello M.Zaki I was privileged to have received a recorded telephone conversation, mid this year, between Hon. Gudaji Kazaure and a senior citizen of this country, in which Kazaure was telling the elderly man that he was about to make N370 billion commission from a N62 trillion stamp duty fraud investigation in Central Bank […]

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Onanuga, Alake and Obaigbena at Thessalonica

Daily Dispatch December 18, 2022

By Festus Adedayo To many, the recent virulent attacks and counter attacks by top Nigerian journalists, served a la carte to the world in the last two weeks, are indications of an autumn for journalism practice in Nigeria. Nigerians have thus been treated to a disgraceful brew of damaging and ignoble exchanges from these media […]

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CBN, Qatar 2023 and time to rekindle our patriotism (2)

Daily Dispatch December 18, 2022

By Hassan Gimba I believe the yet-to-be-found Chibok girls and all their loved ones can say the above words about their fatherland. All Nigerian children and their loved ones kidnapped or killed by Boko Haram in the North-East or its other arm, the bandits in the North West and North Central, can borrow these words. All […]