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United States’ Terror Attack Alert And T.Y. Danjuma’s Prognosis

Daily Dispatch October 30, 2022

By Kazeem Akintunde Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, is gradually becoming a ghost town for diplomats and foreign missions in the country. It is now a place to be avoided after the U.S Embassy issued a terror alert last week. The U.S Embassy, in an advisory, warned its citizens in Nigeria

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Every Intelligence Is Local: So Is US Security Report On Nigeria.

Daily Dispatch October 30, 2022

By Bolaji O. Akinyemi. There is a Yoruba adage that says; “ti oju ba f’arabale, a ri imu”, meaning if the eye is calm, focusing downwards in a steady gaze, it will see the nose. The first statement that came out of my mouth when I heard about the US intelligence report was, every intelligence […]

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Thanks.The elephants in PDP and APC’s rooms

Daily Dispatch October 30, 2022

By Hassan Gimba We are in a new phase of politics hitherto never witnessed in our country. Sure, politicians that lost out in their parties are known for changing platforms. That isn’t new. They call it cross-carpeting. We should, of course, know that the word “Cross-carpeting” does not exist in the English language. Politicians coined […]

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2023: Asíwájú Tinubu and The North, by Tunde Rahman

Daily Dispatch October 29, 2022

Could there have been a better and more appropriate platform to interact with and relate to the North than the one provided by the North itself?Certainly no!This is because sensing the need to come together and present a charter of demands to top presidential candidates in the country in order to procure a better deal […]

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Briturkey, Britaly and fear of Britainistan

Daily Dispatch October 27, 2022

By Azu Ishiekwene In a widely shared story last week, The Economist likened the political carnage in Britain to the situation in Italy in the 1940s. Italy was a major theatre of the First World War at the end of which the country was in ruins.  It is so unstable that in spite of the tenuous hold of the […]

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Ooni’s Season of Royal Weddings

Daily Dispatch October 27, 2022

By Kunle Awosiyan My king is doing well. Ooni of Ife, His Royal Majesty, Oba Babatunde Ogunwusi is doing things that will make our history and his story so beautiful to read in the future. For those of us “Omo Ile Ife” who had witnessed and still witnessing the life and times of three kings […]