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Dowen College, cults and the beast in our children’s hearts, By Festus Adedayo

Daily Dispatch December 5, 2021

In the last one week in the American and Nigerian cities of Michigan and Lagos, 1983 Nobel Literature winner and British author, William Golding, was literally woken up from the dead. Golding, novelist, playwright and poet, wrote the highly celebrated novel, Lord of the Flies. If you

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Two years after incarceration at Kuje Prison,

Daily Dispatch December 5, 2021

By Orji Uzor Kalu Today is the second anniversary of my incarceration at the Nigerian Correctional Service Medial Security Custodial Centre, Kuje, Abuja. I was imprisoned for an offence I never committed. Despite all the witnesses recusing themselves, I was pronounced guilty of 39 charges out of the 39 concocted charges levelled against me. What […]

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The Arbiter Guest Columnist: Needless proliferation of unviable airports, by Kelvin Osa Okunbor

Daily Dispatch December 5, 2021

There seems to be needless competition in establishing aerodromes without due regard to the feasibility of the venture. In the circumstances, authorities are “forced” to spend revenues earned from four viable terminals in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt and Kano to subsidise operations in the 20 other airports managed by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria […]

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Jos prison break and mask of the Beast

Daily Dispatch December 2, 2021

By Andrew AgbeseI saw what I will later refer to as a ‘mask of the beast’ on February 26, 2012, in Jos.It was that period when it was raining bombs in certain parts of the country and Sundays marked as unsafe due to the frequency of blasts in places of worship. Jos, the capital of Plateau […]

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The truth lie, Mohammed cannot kill (Part 1)

Daily Dispatch November 29, 2021

By Tunde Odesola In light or in darkness, a cockroach is a cockroach; smelly and repulsive. What to do to rid the cockroach of its nuisance? Whack it to death! The lethargic regime of the retired General Muhammadu Buhari heeded this homily on October 20, 2020, when it crushed to death, like cockroaches, innocent Nigerian […]

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Makinde: The Making Of A Strategist

Daily Dispatch November 28, 2021

By Taiwo Adisa “Yiyo ekun, ti ojo ko,” so goes the Yoruba saying. It translates to-the gentility of a tiger is not a sign of weakness. In the jungle, that the lion is master of stealth does not translate to fear. That is what the Yoruba saying is affirming in those words. At the Eagle […]