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“We Are Poorer Than Lecturers, Yet We Don’t Go On Strike”

Daily Dispatch May 2, 2022

By Kunle Awosiyan This headline came from a friend who has been in the police force for 15 years. He said this when I told him that I have a brother who earns N176, 000 monthly in his ten years of service as a lecturer at the Nigeria Police Academy. My police friend laughed but […]

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Dapo Abiodun -An Ex-convict?

Daily Dispatch May 2, 2022

  By Kazeem Akintunde The All Progressive Congress, APC, is facing a moral dilemma on whether to stop Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State from contesting the 2023 Governorship election in the state. Abdullahi Adamu, its National Chairman would have to decide whether the Governor should fly the flag of the party in the coming […]

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Before Femi Adesina tasted power

Daily Dispatch May 2, 2022

By Tunde Odesola Kings don’t die. They depart to ancestral underworld in vaults known to the Yoruba as aja ile. The mountainous confetti of praise heaped in the trail of the departed Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III, is bigger than the entire Oyo kingdom because Iku Baba Yeye was larger than life itself. […]

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Now, nowhere is safe – Readers’ reactions

Daily Dispatch May 1, 2022

By Hassan Gimba As we do from time to time, today we are leaving the stage for our readers because their voices matter. Now, nowhere is safe (1) (04/04/2022) Awolowo in the 70s said that the children you failed to train will never let you have peace, True or False? Emmanuel Joshua Oluwabankole ———– We […]

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Memories of Midnight

Daily Dispatch April 30, 2022

By Simon Kolawole It was midnight, not so long ago, when I woke up, used the toilet and returned to my bed to continue from where I stopped. For almost an hour, I closed my eyes in vain. I could neither induce nor seduce sleep. I was rolling from one end of the bed to […]

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What History Says About How Buhari’s Successor Will Emerge

Daily Dispatch April 28, 2022

By Azu Ishiekwene I think the most frequently asked question today is, who will succeed President Muhammadu Buhari? With over 35 aspirants openly declaring their interest as of today, a few still in the closet and more coming out, the field has never looked more crowded. And last week, the decision by former President Goodluck […]