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PDP, Atiku, 2023 and Afegbua’s attempt to stand logic on its head

Daily Dispatch January 25, 2022

By Babajide Balogun I read the piece that Prince Kassim Afegbua had to do about the 2023 elections and how he expended a lot of energy in trying to de-market his principal in the 2019 presidential election. It is confounding to see that the Atiku Abubakar which Afegbua riled in his outburst is

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Osinbajo: Your Loyalty Will Be Tested

Daily Dispatch January 24, 2022

By Kazeem Akintunde My first encounter with Professor Yemi Osinbajo was in 1999 when he became the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice in Lagos State. He had been appointed by the elected governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. Then, I was a reporter covering the activities of the Lagos State Government for my Newspaper. […]

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Hushpuppi: Fugitive supercop and his godfather

Daily Dispatch January 24, 2022

By Tunde Odesola The pride of lions lounge under the baobab. Some look at the sky belly-up in gratitude to nature. Some crouch on their warm, filled bellies, swishing their tails to the music of the wind and the shine of the sun. Like fleeting ghosts, three monkeys, from nowhere, suddenly descended on the pride; […]

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The North East: Which Way Forward?

Daily Dispatch January 23, 2022

By Hassan Gimba Being a speech delivered by Hassan Gimba, publisher of Neptune Prime online newspaper and magazine, chairman Northeast Publishers’ Forum, as the Guest Speaker at the 6th Annual Awards and Recognition Night of the Northeast Star magazine, held on the 21st of October, 2021 at the Conference Hall of AUN, Yola, Adamawa State. I find it

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Festus Adedayo, Tinubu and the character question

Daily Dispatch January 22, 2022

By Segun Ayobolu Published in The Nation On Jan 22, 2022 Regardless of his proclivities for misdirected mischief you must give it to him. Dr. Festus Adedayo, political scientist, lawyer, journalist and Tribune columnist has impressive academic and professional credentials. He is also a good prose stylist. For years, I have considered Festus to be […]

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A UK-Africa Trade Deal Would Create Jobs and Boost the Commonwealth – post-BREXIT, It Is now possible By Muhammadu Buhari

Daily Dispatch January 22, 2022

A deal would enable Britain to practice the free trade it has long preached and represent recognition by a G7 economy of the benefits of African unity, writes President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria Two years after the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union, my country Nigeria and her African partners seek a new settlement […]