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What Is Life Worth In Nigeria?

Daily Dispatch May 16, 2022

By Kazeem Akintunde ‘On that account, We ordained for the Children of Israel that if any one slew a person unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief in the land – it would be as if he slew the whole people; and if anyone saved a life, it would be as if he […]

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Deborah’s blood stains APC presidential form (1)

Daily Dispatch May 16, 2022

By Tunde Odesola Nightfall in Abuja. Smoke filters through the savannah foliage, skywards. A bird’s-eye view reveals that all is not well under the canopy of forest below as a cacophony of voices rises and falls like traders’ babble on market day. It’s another hunting season in the Forest of a Thousand Demons located in […]

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A chat with Buni and random musings

Daily Dispatch May 15, 2022

By Hassan Gimba I should have come with the second and, most likely, concluding part of the article, “Of banditry and shared sovereignty”, but Nigeria nowadays is a country where incidents, foreseen and unforeseen, are tumbling over each other by the minute, competing for attention in the public space. One of the burning issues has […]

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Blasphemy: The North will be consumed by the monsters it created

Daily Dispatch May 15, 2022

By Erasmus Ikhide  YESTERDAY, I watched little kids from age five and above in the streets of Sokoto city, Northwest Nigeria; destroying, looting, setting schools, churches, southerners’ homes and businesses alight, protesting against the arrest of a few monsters who burnt alive Miss Deborah Samuel amidst chants of ‘Allah akbar’, meaning God’s

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Take aways from President Buhari’s brief, productive visit to Abidjan – By Garba Shehu

Daily Dispatch May 13, 2022

By Garba Shehu Unpacking the main takeaways from President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire, starts with the gain from a side event, not the 15th Conference Of Parties to the United Nations Conference on Combating Desertification, UNCCF, which was the main event, considering the significance of what the President set out to achieve. […]

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2023: Osinbajo’s Self-destructive Ambition

Daily Dispatch May 13, 2022

By Erasmus Ikhide  VICE President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, has shown that he is the ultimate devil’s incarnate and that shouldn’t be of any surprise to the global community. In the last seven years, the world has been watching him with uncanny sense of pity as the master mourner each time he joins his principal, President […]