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The Story of the Siege on Magodo

Daily Dispatch January 6, 2022

By Azu Ishiekwene This is a local story and it’s personal. I’m involved. And because I’m involved, I thought the best way to tell it is to hear it from persons who have a more intimate knowledge of the story; those who have lived in Magodo Shangisha GRA Scheme II, Lagos, for well over two […]

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Baba Boilers and The Days We May Find Ourselves Shoeless

Daily Dispatch January 4, 2022

By Alhaja Adeola Agoro One day in 2021, I was in a car with Mr. Eni Akinsola, (a former senior colleague at The Nation newspapers and later Chief Press Secretary to Dr. Mimiko). We parked across the office where we had an appointment and we were discussing details of the business encounter we were about […]

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Plausibility of February 2022 APC Convention, by Salihu Lukman

Daily Dispatch January 3, 2022

Open Letter to APC LeadersOrdinarily, there should be no need to be doubtful about whether our party, All Progressives Congress, will be having its convention in February 2022 or not. Recall that after the end of the year 2021 meeting of the Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) on Monday, December 20, 2021 and in […]

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Back On The Beat

Daily Dispatch January 3, 2022

By Kazeem Akintunde In October 2017, I took a temporary break from Journalism to work with former Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole as his Special Assistant, Communication and Strategy. This came after I resigned from Leadership Newspaper as Editor, Southern region, covering the entire South- south, South-east and South-west in March, 2017, after seven […]

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Love, sex and scam in 2022

Daily Dispatch January 3, 2022

By Tunde Odesola As the new year unfurls its carpet of promise and hope, it won’t be nice to stain the carpet, so early, with footprints from the dunghill of sufferings created last year by the retired Major General Muhammadu Buhari-led incompetent regime. Therefore, I won’t dwell on President Buhari and his regime in my […]

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Banditry And Our Quest For Leadership

Daily Dispatch January 2, 2022

By Hassan Gimba I wanted to continue with my treatise on the Rule of Law as our only panacea for survival when a clarion call by the governor of Katsina State, Alhaji Aminu Masari, caught my attention. It might have come as a shock to many when Masari called on people of his state to […]