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Ooni, OAU and Ife deaf gods (2)

Daily Dispatch April 4, 2022

By Tunde Odesola Arole Oduduwa, my second mental image of you left me in pure dazzlement of your unfolding personality, which I thought was a perfect fit for the big shoes left behind by the departed Ooni Okunade Sijuwade, Olubuse II. But William Shakespeare warns, “There’s no art to find the

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Who will save Nigeria from terrorists?

Daily Dispatch April 3, 2022

By Kazeem Akintunde I have not fully recovered from last week Monday’s terror attack on the Abuja-Kaduna train. This is because I was on that same train on September 23, last year. I had boarded the train at Idu in Abuja at 7 am in the company of the CEO of Africa Resource Centre For […]

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Female President: Challenges, Possibilities and Timing.

Daily Dispatch April 3, 2022

By: Shiloh O. Akinyemi From time immemorial, ours have been a nation of actively productive women. From the days of Yoruba kingdom and the recorded history of Oduduwa descendants, marriage has never conscripted women from social responsibility. Moremi was the wife of Oranmiyan the son of Oduduwa, her intervention in the course of life of […]

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Now, nowhere is safe (1), by Hassan Gimba

Daily Dispatch April 3, 2022

First, they came for the Communists And I did not speak out  Because I was not a Communist Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out Because I was not a trade […]

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Nigeria’s 2023 outlook and the looming danger

Daily Dispatch March 31, 2022

By Michael Owhoko, Ph.D I am neither a prophet nor a clairvoyant, but from the manifestation in my crystal ball, I see Nigeria in 2023 being shaped by upheaval fueled by miseries and hopelessness.  Agitation reminiscent of the ENDSARS protests will break out.   Primary triggers are the country’s pathetic economic indices, including growing unemployment, […]

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Turning the Other Cheek for Will Smith

Daily Dispatch March 31, 2022

By Azu Ishiekwene One week before Hollywood, Nigeria hosted a different kind of Oscar moment. At the swearing-in ceremony of Charles Soludo, former Governor of the Central Bank and new governor of the most commercially significant southeast states, the wife of the outgoing governor, Ebele Obiano, staged an unusual drama. Ebele, Nigeria’s modest answer to […]