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CURRENCY CHANGE? AT THIS TIME?

Daily Dispatch October 27, 2022

By Mahmud Jega To folks old enough to remember the currency change exercise undertaken by the Buhari military government in 1984, Central Bank of Nigeria [CBN] Governor Godwin Emefiele’s announcement on Wednesday that the N200, N500 and N1000 notes will cease to be legal tender at the end of

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Peter Obi is not running for president

Daily Dispatch October 24, 2022

By Fredrick Nwabufo Peter Obi did not plan to run for president. If he did plan to run for president, he would not be freewheeling through endless tunnels of gaffes and inchoate ideas. But really, he did not plan to run for president. An accident happened. Peter Obi’s presidential bid is a freak of politics; […]

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Floods: A Nation Submerged In Water

Daily Dispatch October 23, 2022

By Kazeem Akintunde For the better part of last week, Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri, was in a quandary because almost half of his entire state was under floodwater with several lives lost and property worth billions of naira destroyed. As of Friday, over 700,000 persons have been displaced in about 300 communities and villages […]

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And what’s so special about Switzerland, anyway?

Daily Dispatch October 23, 2022

By Hassan Gimba: Reader’s Comments When on 16/10/2022 I wrote about what happened to me and some World Cancer Congress delegates that were denied visas by the Switzerland Embassy in  Abuja, Nigeria, the embassy the next day requested six of us, including Dr Alhassan Adamu, the president of the Nigerian Cancer Society, to return “for an […]

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A professor’s pay-slip and lessons from ASUU strike

Daily Dispatch October 21, 2022

By Azu Ishiekwene After eight months’ strike, one of the longest in the country’s history, university teachers finally returned, at gunpoint, to the classrooms on Monday. It was the 16th time university teachers would be striking in 23 years. Frustrated parents and distraught students just couldn’t wait to hear that the strike had been suspended […]

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Not what they say but what they say was said

Daily Dispatch October 18, 2022

By Andrew Agbese Lately our rights to listen and comprehend have been taken away by overzealous supporters of presidential candidates in the forthcoming general elections. As it is today, we don’t have the right to listen and comprehend what presidential candidates of the major political parties say but have to wait for interpretation from other […]