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Aisha Buhari, Aminu Muhammed, And Social Media Trolling

Daily Dispatch December 4, 2022

By Kazeem Akintunde On Friday last week, reason finally prevailed, and Nigeria’s First Lady, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, agreed to withdraw the defamation case she filed against Aminu Muhammed, a final year student of Federal University, Dutse, Jigawa State. Aminu had, during the week, been remanded in

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Still on the issue of love

Daily Dispatch December 4, 2022

By Hassan Gimba Now that we’ve found love, what are we gonna do with it? – The O’Jays. While the title of this work might have been spurred by the above verse from The O’Jays R&B group’s 1973 hit, the title of the year 2000 film, Finding Forrester, was an inspiration. Finding Forrester, an American drama written […]

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Oluwo and the glorification of ignorance (1)

Daily Dispatch November 28, 2022

By Tunde Odesola Welcome to Ìwó, the ancient Yoruba land where the parrot sings in paradox the poetry of truth and treachery. The parrot is not a treacherous bird. For the Yoruba, the parrot is a sacred bird of historic symbolism, bearing on its head the feathers of truth, trampling underfoot the evil of treachery. […]

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Peter Obi: Changing The Narrative Of 2023 Poll

Daily Dispatch November 27, 2022

By Kazeem Akintunde On Monday last week, I had a one-on-one encounter with the candidate of the Labour Party in next year’s presidential election, Mr. Peter Obi, when he appeared at the Nigerian Guild of Editor’s Forum in Lagos. He came across as a politician who has an idea of what he wants and how […]

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Of 2023 and our cornucopia of excesses

Daily Dispatch November 27, 2022

By Hassan Gimba Cornucopia, a word with Latin origin and Greek history, comes from the Latin cornu copiae, which translates literally to “horn of plenty.” Cornucopia is believed to represent the horn of a goat in Greek mythology. Legend has it that it was from this horn that the god, Zeus, was fed as an infant. […]

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WHY THE AJAMI IS NEITHER ARABIC NOR ISLAMIC

Daily Dispatch November 24, 2022

By Mohammed Adamu An Online friend of mine, Victoria Javeh has sincerely asked, on her Post, to know why, even in spite of the present opportunity for a ‘re-design of our currency’, ‘Arabic’ has still not been taken off the Naira. And although I had previously done a more comprehensive piece in my defunct Column, […]