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Climate change is beyond tree planting, firewoods and ‘church rats’

Daily Dispatch October 18, 2022

By Sunday Michael Ogwu If you love this country, then you should be worried-sick about the kind of reaponse we are getting from frontline contestants about climate change. They don’t know sh*t about the dimension of the crisis and the times we live in. Listening to Tinubu talk about

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Shameless Yoruba Obas

Daily Dispatch October 17, 2022

By Tunde Odesola (Published in The PUNCH, on Monday, October 17, 2022) Wear a crown on a pig, clad it in the starchiest agbada, and sheathe its feet in Gucci shoes, it’s still a pig, not a king. More than a thousand years after Oduwuwa ruled Ile-Ife in the 12th Century, and his scions expanded […]

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And what’s so special about Switzerland, anyway?

Daily Dispatch October 16, 2022

By Hassan Gimba I had wanted to write about the awards conferred on deserving – and not so deserving – individuals on Tuesday by President Muhammadu Buhari. I thought I would be reading it today in Geneva, Switzerland. I should have been in Geneva, today, attending the 2022 World Cancer Congress organised by the Union […]

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Pathetic Stories Washed Up by Floods

Daily Dispatch October 13, 2022

By Azu Ishiekwene Back in the day, weather forecasts were a joke. And I mean literally. The weather forecast segment which used to come at the end of the news bulletin on Nigeria’s national broadcaster, NTA, was the butt of cruel jokes amongst folks. Often when the forecasters said it would rain, we said they […]

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Teni: The offender and the ‘offendee’

Daily Dispatch October 12, 2022

By Andrew Agbese In August 2013, governor of Kano State, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso did what was considered an act of impertinence to then President Goodluck Jonathan. Kwankwaso had, during an award/gala night organized by the National Council of Women Societies (NCWS), refused to leave his seat to go and greet Jonathan when other governors, who […]

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Wike Vs. PDP: A-Y-U normal?

Daily Dispatch October 10, 2022

By Tunde Odesola Fishes don’t swim, they run when fire burns in Rivers. Hypocrisy downs virtue and upholds vice when the crocodile sheds tears. This is the unfolding scenario in the Peoples Democratic Party. It’s an equation without a solution, tea without sugar, laughter without joy, peace without tranquillity. When e dey pain dem, e […]