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Tukur Mamu: From Negotiator To Suspect

Daily Dispatch September 9, 2022

By Mahmud Jega Kaduna-based Desert Herald newspaper publisher Tukur Mamu’s quick transition from hostage negotiator to state security detainee was not very difficult for keen observers to foresee. Since February this year, when terrorists stormed an Abuja-Kaduna bound train and made away with

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Obituary And The Affidavit Of Existence: Is LP Labouring In Vain? Part 2

Daily Dispatch September 8, 2022

By Bolaji O. Akinyemi. In the city of Birmingham located 110 miles of London in England, United Kingdom, a recreational sport was first played in the early part of 19th century officially. With a tennis racket strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball about the size of an average man’s fist covered with […]

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Obituary And The Affidavit Of Existence: Is LP Labouring In Vain?

Daily Dispatch September 5, 2022

By Bolaji O. Akinyemi. The sensationalism that Obi has become is growing in the political space by the day, but like a mighty tree without a compensating root system, danger looms in the day of storm! Unfortunately, the storm is on but the ‘Obidient’ are too naive to see it. The elites involved in the […]

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Time To End Fuel Subsidy Fraud In Nigeria,

Daily Dispatch September 4, 2022

By Kazeem Akintunde Hameed Ali, a retired colonel, who heads the Nigeria Customs Service, last week appeared before the House of Representative Committee on Finance, at the continued hearing on the proposed 2023-2025 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper in Abuja, to lampoon the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation Limited on its inability to […]

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Nigeria and Presidential Democracy: Any Better Alternative? (2)

Daily Dispatch September 4, 2022

By Hassan Gimba We have looked at various forms of government in the first part of this treatise. We ended with the posers, “Can we continue this way? Is it the fault of the system or the operators of the system? Should we scout for a better system or better operators? Should we look inwards? […]

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Kukah’s Stories and Broken Truths

Daily Dispatch September 1, 2022

By Azu Ishiekwene If you haven’t had a good laugh, you have not been with him. And anyone who knows him knows I’m not joking. The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, Matthew Hassan Kukah, has the rare gift of humour.  Not the run-of-the-mill kind that forces a courteous half-smile. It’s the kind that extracts the prey […]