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My Precipitations

Daily Dispatch January 1, 2022

By Azu Ishiekwene  No, it’s not what you think. I have read Bisi Akande’s feather-ruffler, entitled, “My Participations.” Perhaps the only connection between the memoir and what you’re about to read is a borrowed inspiration to re-purpose the title. So, relax.  I laughed my way

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Buhari and Bakare: Leadership and burden of debt

Daily Dispatch December 29, 2021

By: Bolaji O. Akinyemi It was late Chief Adedibu who said if you don’t want to know who befriended your mother before she married your father, don’t join politics!For this and other related reasons Christians in Nigeria have stayed off politics for so long, the dirt associated with the practice of politics in Nigeria will […]

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Desmond Tutu, Kukah and the protests in London

Daily Dispatch December 27, 2021

Proverbs are not just the palm oil with which yam is eaten; they are the yam. Where I come from, there are a million proverbs for every experience of life. Some people are contagiously sick but they hate being told so. They suffer self-deception, the refusal to believe what is true about themselves. Eni bá […]

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The Ooni and his beautiful queen

Daily Dispatch December 27, 2021

By Tunde Odesola Since the sun of social media appeared in cyberspace during the second half of the 1990s, it hasn’t ceased to blaze the dark closets of myths and tradition, exposing their cobwebs, warts and all. And humanity is excited. At last, an answer has come to the bi-directional communication telephony of the era, […]

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The Rule of Law, Nigeria’s only hope for survival (3)

Daily Dispatch December 26, 2021

By Hassan Gimba Many patriots concerned with our rapid nose-diving in morals and abandonment of the rule of law believe that the British left too early. Some theorise that perhaps if our independence, achieved on a platter of gold, was delayed for 20 more years, we would have still been on the course. Had we […]

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The Burdens Today’s Oloris Can’t Carry

Daily Dispatch December 24, 2021

Like every person; kings and presidents live in plurality. They have secret, private and public lives. In this my little piece, I will liken the behaviour of a man as an embodiment of his spirit, his soul and body as explained by the Bible. One can also see it from the common biblical verse of […]