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Tinubu/Shettima: Time to change Aso Rock Villa into a temple of God

Daily Dispatch July 22, 2022

By Ali Abare The controversy trailing the decision of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, to pick former governor of Borno State, Senator Kashim Shettima, as his running mate, is a needless trajectory fueled by the elites for selfish

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Will machines replace journalists, too?

Daily Dispatch July 21, 2022

By Azu Ishiekwene The advent of any significant changes in technology has often triggered concerns about the fate of journalism. Even at the infancy of social media, TIME covered one of its editions of February 5, 2009, with concern about the imminent death of journalism. To drive home the point, the graphic was illustrated with […]

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Gov. Dapo Abiodun Should Prepare To Go Too

Daily Dispatch July 19, 2022

By: Aliykal Lanre First and foremost, let me congratulates the Osun State governor’s elect, Mr. Jackson Ademola Adeleke (Dancing Senator) for his victory in just concluded election in the State of Osun, they have decided who steer the boat of the state in the next four years, the dancing Senator has won the election, it […]

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Osun: PDP victory affirms Buhari’s impotence

Daily Dispatch July 18, 2022

By Tunde Odesola Eyes bloodshot. Tears welled up. But they didn’t flow. They remained within my eyelids which refused to let them roll down and deface my face. Something, maybe my brain, told my eyelids to keep the tears dammed so I could read. And I read. I read a CNN story headlined, “4,000 beagles […]

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2023: Can We Get Serious?

Daily Dispatch July 17, 2022

By Kazeem Akintunde We have roughly seven months to next year’s general elections, yet we don’t know the policies and directions those who want to lead us will take when they get to power. We are at a critical junction in our national life that we can’t afford not to get it right next year. […]

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Nigeria, Oh Our Nigeria

Daily Dispatch July 17, 2022

By Hassan Gimba I must confess that the above title was inspired by Eric Donaldson’s song, ‘Land of My Birth’, from his hit reggae album, Kent Village, released in 1978. Some years ago, the song was voted the winner of the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission’s “All-Time Best.”Eric Donaldson, 75, was born after Jamaica’s Great