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Owo Terror: Abeokuta Outburst by Tinubu at Buhari, Catholic and The Pope.

Daily Dispatch June 6, 2022

By Bolaji O. Akinyemi On Thursday the 2nd of June 2022, Bola Ahmed Tinubu stormed Abeokuta, Ogun State in furtherance of his political consultations ahead of the APC Presidential primary scheduled finally from Monday, 6th of June 2022. Tinubu was in his best element; articulate and deliberate

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Buhari As APC’s Super Delegate

Daily Dispatch June 5, 2022

By Kazeem Akintunde The All Progressive Congress, APC, will, today, begin the process of picking its Presidential flag bearer in Abuja, at its two-day National Convention. Already, a screening committee, headed by former National Chairman, Chief John Oyegun, has screened 23 presidential aspirants eying the number one office in the land. Oyegun and members of […]

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Of Atiku’s sucker punch, Wike’s tantrums and APC’s only door

Daily Dispatch June 5, 2022

By Hassan Gimba Had Atiku Abubakar, Wazirin Adamawa, former vice president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, two-time unlucky in presidential elections on the platform of two different parties, and a veteran of four presidential primary elections, been a pugilist, he would have been one in the mould of the great Muhammad Ali. Muhammad Ali, […]

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Victoria Bamidele Shin-Aba @60: Untold stories of humble beginnings of an aviation amazon

Daily Dispatch June 2, 2022

By Oluwadamilare Emmanuel Behind the glorious career fulfillment of some people lie tattered beginnings harsh enough to devour even the strongest of men. While many have shared their grass to grace stories, however, some deliberately left the stories to waste away in memory because of the emotional trauma recalling almost to the present, the forgotten […]

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Real Madrid’s meat is Nigerian leaders’ poison

Daily Dispatch May 30, 2022

By Tunde Odesola In the sunlight of man’s civility lurks a shadow of beastiality called boxing. Though British sportswriter, Pierce Egan, in 1813, coined the term ‘sweet science’, Jewish-English prizefighter, Daniel Mendoza, stapled the term to boxing in the late 1700s. However, on Saturday morning when I watched the videos of the 2016 UFC welterweight […]

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This Is Not Democracy

Daily Dispatch May 29, 2022

By Kazeem Akintunde Democracy, as I was taught in secondary school 40 years ago, is defined as the Government of the People, by the people, and for the people. But what I am witnessing in Nigeria now, going by the primaries of the two leading political parties, seems to have a new definition, which is, […]