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Have The Hustlers Finally Ousted Kenya’s Dynasties?

Daily Dispatch August 25, 2022

By Azu Ishiekwene One of the ironies of politics is how easily fiction becomes reality, and reality, precedent. Before our eyes, the president-elect of Kenya, William Ruto, who has played all sides of Kenya’s politics for at least three decades, has just won an election by claiming to be an

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Termites Are Suing For Libel

Daily Dispatch August 23, 2022

By Mahmud Jega As a trained Zoologist, former ground-level lecturer in Biological Sciences and a one-time ASUU member who has long since forgotten how to go on strike, I cannot stand idly by and watch human beings malign, ridicule, besmirch and smear the names of other animal species. Rising to the defence of animal species […]

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Kashim Shettima: The starboy of the NBA show

Daily Dispatch August 23, 2022

By Bayo Onanuga If someone had landed in Nigeria from Mars  on Monday and read treads on Twitter Nigeria, he would have thought Senator Kashim Shettima was one tasteless, uneducated Nigerian. But the man so derisively targeted by a section of Twittersphere was nothing of such. He was  a victim of the Twitter herd, people […]

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The Atiku You May Not Know

Daily Dispatch August 22, 2022

By Tunde Olusunle For those who may not know, Atiku Abubakar, Nigeria’s former Vice President and presidential flagbearer of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, (PDP), is an extremely organised character. He is a system’s person who is meticulous, painstaking and regulations-compliant. Ask those who know him closely, or have worked with him in the past. Ask […]

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OPINION: Adelabu Should Market Himself With Facts Not Fabrications |

Daily Dispatch August 22, 2022

By Taiwo Adisa There is one guy that writes what he called politics 101 on Oyo Politics. I think he needs to enrol in his class Penkelemesi Adebayo Adelabu. For those who don’t know the meaning of Penkelemesi, let them read Wole Soyinka’s Ibadan: The Penkelemesi years. The word is a Yoruba coinage from English […]

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Nigeria and Presidential Democracy: Any Better Alternative? (1)

Daily Dispatch August 21, 2022

By Hassan Gimba First published on September 23, 2019Since man became aware of himself and realised that whether by mutual arrangement or contrived by nature, there are always leaders and followers, communities fashioned out ways and means in which to live together under organised systems to regulate and conduct their affairs. From primitive father figure […]