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Buhari Wants To Handover To PDP. Here’s How

Daily Dispatch December 23, 2021

By Azu Ishiekwene  After four weeks of delay, confusion and indecisiveness, President Muhammadu Buhari finally refused on Monday to sign the Electoral Amendment Bill, citing a raft of reasons which took him so long to improvise you could clearly guess he wanted the cup to pass over him. But

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Re: Indebtedness: We won’t lose national assets to Chinese Govt, FG assures Nigerians -By Funmilayo Adesanya-Davies

Daily Dispatch December 20, 2021

We should be guided by the fact that, “The term “Shari’a refers to a set of Islamic religious law that governs aspects of day-to-day life for Muslims in addition to religious rituals. Shari’a law also provides religious followers with a set of principles and guidelines to help them make important decisions in their lives, such […]

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I’ll follow Buhari and Akande into the jungle

Daily Dispatch December 20, 2021

By Tunde Odesola Only three reasons could make me follow Nigeria’s President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) and his former victim, Chief Adebisi Abdulkareem Akande, into the jungle; not the President’s false claims on security, not the news that 3,125 persons were killed and 2,703 others were abducted in the North alone, in the last […]

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Rule of Law, Nigeria’s only hope of survival (2), by Hassan Gimba

Daily Dispatch December 20, 2021

This is the second part of our treatise on the rule of law that started last week. The rule of law is about the creation of laws, their enforcement so that no one – including the most highly placed citizen – is above the law. When one looks at how organised countries have control over […]

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As President Buhari Clocks 79, A Focus On Achievements, Challenges

Daily Dispatch December 16, 2021

By Garba Shehu President Muhammadu Buhari marks the age of 79 on Friday 17, without the joy of being with the family and the country he governs, seeking to maximize bilateral benefits in critical areas of Nigeria’s safety, survival and economic development in a distant country, Turkey. As President in the last six years, he […]

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Travellers’ Misery and Nigeria’s Slot War With UAE

Daily Dispatch December 16, 2021

By Azu Ishiekwene It’s not been a merry run up to Christmas for many Nigerian travellers. It all started with Canada, Saudi Arabia, and then the UK, red-listing Nigeria (and 10 other African countries) for the Omicron variant of COVID-19 in spite of relatively low reported cases. If there were any remaining doubts about COVID-19 […]