COLUMNS

What six billion naira can do for my state

Daily Dispatch November 8, 2021

By Hassan Gimba Yobe is a small agrarian state on the path to becoming great. All those who governed it ensured this. All the past governors, one way or the other, have taken the state beyond how they met it. There have been hiccups here and there, disappointments now and then, but that’s okay;

COLUMNS

Building collapse in Mosquito Republic

Daily Dispatch November 8, 2021

By Tunde Odesola The throttle of the stationary molue stuck out like the heel of a prostitute’s stiletto. Abere, the bus driver, pedalled hard on the throttle while exhaust fumes drifted through the slits in the floorboard, smarting passengers’ eyes and noses. Coughs and curses followed. The driver gulped the herbal alcoholic content in a […]

COLUMNS

Re; Tragedy and casual bigotry against Yoruba Muslims

Daily Dispatch November 7, 2021

By Andrew Agbese The piece with the above title written by Prof. Farooq Kperogi can be faulted on its high reliance on conjectures and innuendos. This is obvious from the case he chose to weave his argument on, which relied only on the account of one side where the other party has no way of […]

COLUMNS

What N6bn can do for my state, by Hassan Gimba

Daily Dispatch November 7, 2021

Yobe is a small agrarian state on the path to becoming great. All those who governed it ensured this. All the past governors, one way or the other, have taken the state beyond how they met it. There have been hiccups here and there, disappointments now and then, but that’s okay; that’s human nature for […]

COLUMNS

Driver Iyocha Ayu And PDP’s Accidented Vehicle

Daily Dispatch November 5, 2021

By Bolaji O. Akinyemi. If pattern is anything to note in national political history’s numerics, then the number 16 should be of interest to us as Nigerians! Same number is engraved in the mind of Pastor Tunde Bakare. It is the number of the stairs in his father’s Abeokuta house. How I wish his conviction […]

COLUMNS

I stopped attending a church because pastor always attacked Buhari —Adesina

Daily Dispatch November 5, 2021

The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, says he stopped attending a branch of a church in Abuja because the pastor was always attacking the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). Adesina said this in an article on Thursday titled, ‘This Kumuyi is simply different’, which was written in support […]