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2023 Edo North Senatorial Race: Resisting Ethnic Champion Called Oshiomhole (Part 2)

Daily Dispatch April 26, 2022

By Erasmus Ikhide  AT the moment, Edo North Senatorial sweepstakes is on the boil, courtesy of Mr. Adams Oshiomhole who chosed to become a leader in Hell than to be a servant in Paradise. It’s the way of primitive ethnic warlords who never imagined themselves to scale obscenity of

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And Buhari Buried The War Against Corruption

Daily Dispatch April 25, 2022

By Kazeem Akintunde In the build up to the 2015 Presidential election, there was the need to formally introduce Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retired) who has emerged the candidate of the All Progressive Congress, APC, to some editors. The venue was the State House, Marina, and he was led to the meeting by the then […]

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Alaafin: I’ve prepared my burial

Daily Dispatch April 24, 2022

By Festus Adedayo How was I to know that that meeting I had with the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, on March 2, 2022, was the last between a father and his son? In the last couple of hours of hearing of his passing, I have scrutinized, without success, memories of anything unusual in […]

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Now, nowhere is safe (3), by Hassan Gimba

Daily Dispatch April 24, 2022

This is the concluding part of this write up, having done parts one and two a few weeks earlier. “When that is not the case, the victim’s faith in his country gets punctured. With the country’s might demystified in his eyes, he can fantasize about the power and invincibility of his captors. Is that Amuta’s […]

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2003 Presidency: A complex equation bigger than ordinary aspirant

Daily Dispatch April 24, 2022

By Kunle Awosiyan Achilles kills Hector and drives the body away in the presence of a sobbing father. The princes and princesses of Troy cry their hearts out, the slaves and freemen of the small country groan as Achilles reap the heart of the heir to the throne. It is a shameful night. The Greek […]

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Marital abuse in the Nigerian church: Causes and remedy, by Ayo Akerele

Daily Dispatch April 23, 2022

A Recent Experience A very close person to me once told me how much abuse he was experiencing from his wife. It was terrible. To protect the wife, he refused to expose the crisis until it reached a climax, after which he invited me to his house. When I saw the innocent wife, I said […]