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STILL ON THE PERSONA OF THE ESSENTIAL ATIKU ABUBAKAR, By Tunde Olusunle

Daily Dispatch December 8, 2022

He contested the gubernatorial election of January 9, 1999 on the platform of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, (PDP), to be governor of the north eastern state of Adamawa and won handsomely. His closest rival was a seasoned politician, Bala Takaya, of what was then known as the All Peoples’

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A letter to Sam

Daily Dispatch December 8, 2022

By Azu Ishiekwene Dear Chairman, It was about this time eight years ago, wasn’t it? I’m talking of course of when you took what was perhaps the most audacious, some may even say, most controversial political decision of your career at the time to run for the Presidency. You had talked and written about what […]

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Stigma As Threat To Recovery Of A Drug User

Daily Dispatch December 7, 2022

By Mahmud Isa Yola A notification popped on my screen minutes after the NDLEA Twitter space was declared open for questions and observations on a fateful Friday. For the uninitiated, NDLEA Twitter Space is a weekly broadcast I co-host with Mr. Femi Babafemi, the agency’s Director of Media and Advocacy, every Friday on the agency’s […]

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TINUBU DISAPPOINTED ME BY NOT RELEASING CHATHAM HOUSE REPORT BEFORE RENO RELEASED HIS OWN

Daily Dispatch December 7, 2022

By Kunle Rasheed When I left my temporary residence of London Bridge to the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, where APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu was billed to verbalize his thoughts, I knew instantly there would be a lot of drama knowing how politics is being played by my Nigerian brothers […]

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Opinion: Wike, Niger Delta Governors and the Limits of Ego Fantasy, By Salome Durugbo

Daily Dispatch December 6, 2022

Did Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers intend to shame his colleagues from the Niger Delta states when he recently asked their constituents to demand accountability from their respective governors on how they spent the refunded arrears of 13 percent derivation? I doubt. But I praise his guts. However, if his intendment was to ridicule his […]

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Oluwo and the glorification of ignorance (2)

Daily Dispatch December 5, 2022

By Tunde Odesola The pig – washed off mud, slaughtered, cut up and cooked – becomes pork. Spiced with condiments and spread over a barbecue fire, its cured belly and sides become bacon, ham is the meat from its upper hinds – salted, dried or smoked. If you dressed up the pig as smartly as […]