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Who’ll stop Nigeria’s eternal bleeding?

Daily Dispatch July 11, 2022

By Tunde Odesola Dead but not buried, the National Broadcasting Commission is a perfect example of a living-dead government agency. And only a powerful prophet who profits from buffoonery like the great Odumeje aka the Liquid Metal can resurrect it. If the NBC wasn’t dead, a song like Zazoo Zeh

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When the subject sees through the king

Daily Dispatch July 10, 2022

By Hassan Gimba In January 2019, the Daily Trust newspaper had its Maiduguri office shut down by the military over its reportage on the fight against insurgency. This made me think about governments and the failure of leadership, or, aptly, the king whose subjects saw through him. And so on January 14, 2019, on this page, under […]

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Wike Run, Run From Leprous APC (Part 1)

Daily Dispatch July 9, 2022

By Erasmus Ikhide  GOVERNOR Nyesom Ezenwo Wike (NEW) was spotted yesterday in Port Harcourt in the midst of Governors Sanw-Olu of Lagos, Akeredolu of Ondo and Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti States. The trio are some of the faces of tragically traumatised nation dripping in blood. The criminal behemoth enterprise called the All Progressives Congress (APC) […]

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OPINION | Before we’re all kidnapped

Daily Dispatch July 8, 2022

By Fredrick Nwabufo The first casualty of capricious election seasons in Nigeria is security. Governance is abandoned, and all efforts and expense are dissipated on party politics. Nigeria’s security insalubrity is deteriorating steeply as the 2023 elections close in. It is all reminiscent of the build-up to the 2015 elections when ubiquitous violence seized the […]

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Matawalle’s Guns

Daily Dispatch July 8, 2022

By Azu Ishiekwene Nigeria is awash with arms – guns, bullets, charms, drugs and local stuff. Not just Nigeria. The entire Sahelian and sub-Saharan African region is drowning in deadly small arms and light weapons – so-called because of their portability and ease of use and adaptation. The firearms may be out of the line […]

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Atiku’s Missteps, Wike’s Righteous Indignation

Daily Dispatch July 4, 2022

By Erasmus Ikhide  HATE or like Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike’s (NEW) style of politics; his objective stance on what he believes in, his refusal to call a spade by other names, or his failure for pretext to become another person in order to acquire power. Politics would have been described differently if it’s devoid of […]