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APC, Beware the Ides of March

Daily Dispatch March 13, 2022

By Hassan Gimba “When there is no enemy within, the enemy outside can do you no harm.” – Ancient proverb. “The Ides of March”, made popular by William Shakespeare in his book, Julius Caesar, is the 74th day in the Roman calendar, corresponding to 15th March. Marked by several religious

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APC Putting Everyone at Risk by Endangering Itself

Daily Dispatch March 10, 2022

By Azu Ishiekwene The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) looks determined to set itself on fire, even though the story out there is that the match box has been snatched from the hand of its interim chairman and Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni. The danger still looms. After toppling the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) […]

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The Ukraine/Russia War And Nigerian Youths

Daily Dispatch March 7, 2022

By Kazeem Akintunde The response from the Federal Government this time around was fast and immediate. Perhaps owing to the fact that majority of the victims are kids of the nouveau riche caught in the Ukraine-Russia war. In Nigeria, the rich takes care of themselves. Many of the children of very rich Nigerians who could […]

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Buhari’s serial abuse of Nigeria’s Lady Justice, by Festus Adedayo

Daily Dispatch March 6, 2022

Though it looks harmless, political cartooning can be nerve-racking, provoking the bile of political office holders and triggering huge political umbrage in the process. In February 2021, an award-winning political cartoonist with the Daily Trust newspaper, Bulama Mustapha, sketched a cartoon flake of a framed photograph sitting majestically on Nigeria’s Aso Rock

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The “Sambisa Forest” of the East.

Daily Dispatch March 3, 2022

By Ikechukwu Ezeribe. At about 2pm on January 26, 2022, I got a call from my Cousin who came back from Switzerland for a burial at Umuike Ukpor (Ukpor is in Nnewi South Council, Anambra State). He told me that he was under the captivity of IPOB Guys at Lilu. The IPOB Guys told me […]

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Africa And Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

Daily Dispatch March 3, 2022

By Azu Ishiekwene War is messy and never fails to spread responsive misery. When Adolf Hitler asked for safe passage to East Prussia through the Polish corridor and also for the occupied port of Danzig, not many could have imagined that it would spiral into a world war that would cost 85 million lives and […]