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Buhari’s disastrous interview

Daily Dispatch January 10, 2022

By Tunde Odesola The waves washed the blue whale ashore at midnight, an abomination that daybreak must not see. Sadly, not a thousand hefty men can secretly push the big fish back into the receding sea; what is left is a lie to tell that the shore was a better habitat for the fish than […]

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The North Is Hemorrhaging

Daily Dispatch January 10, 2022

By Kazeem Akintunde It was not his turn to pick a passenger, but I deliberately chose him to ferry me home due to his neatness. When other Okada riders protested that he should wait for his turn and allow others ahead of him to take me home, I decided to wait for him. While waiting, […]

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Readers response to the Arbiter

Daily Dispatch January 9, 2022

As we do from time to time, today is for the readers to respond and be heard. Thanks. The Rule of Law, Nigeria’s only hope for survival, by Hassan Gimba Our greatest problem is that we have mistaken our secretarial studies for education. Hon Bukar Shuwa ———– You have said it all. I pray we all […]

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A Requiem for Omo Ajé

Daily Dispatch January 8, 2022

By Oladeinde Olawoyin One hazy morning in the second half of the noughties, I was at the Odo-Oba residence of my grandfather, Folarin Olawoyin (a.k.a Alhaji J14), and our conversations drifted toward the persona of then Chief Saliu Akanmu Adetunji. Alhaji J14 had just returned to Ibadan from a campaign trip to Oke-Ogun, alongside the […]

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Why Tofa Did Not ‘Take Over From Army’

Daily Dispatch January 7, 2022

By Andrew AgbeseAfter Bashir Othman Tofa emerged as the candidate of the National Republican Convention, NRC, to contest the June 1993 presidential elections, the stage became set for what appeared to be the final leap for a return to democracy after ten years of military rule.By that time, it had become limpid clear that the […]

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Ampersand To The Surge In Jos Ritual Killings

Daily Dispatch January 7, 2022

By Andrew AgbeseThe mutilated body of a 400 level student of the University of Jos was said to have been found in a hotel room long after her host, said to be her boyfriend, had disappeared into thin air. Since then, there have been tales of other bodies recovered at other points in similar circumstances, […]