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Buhari is worst president, Ortom is right

Daily Dispatch September 6, 2021

By Tunde Odesola Hooray! The leaves are falling! It’s autumn, the evening of the four seasons. Harvested crops and fruits, in baskets, are heading to barns from farms. Winter, spring, summer and autumn. Each period of the season walks on three legs. December, January and February are the three

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Quest for Federalism and Its Many Ironies

Daily Dispatch September 2, 2021

By Azu Ishiekwene One month from now, Nigeria’s last batch of states created in 1996 to bring the total to 36, would turn 25 years old.  The last batch of six states – Ebonyi, Bayelsa, Nasarawa, Zamfara, Gombe and Ekiti – was created by the military head of state, General Sani Abacha, on October 1, […]

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Muzzing the media freedom in a democracy

Daily Dispatch September 1, 2021

By: Adémólá Òrúnbon Of recent, there have been what is apparently a guided and concerted attempts by the President Mohammadu Buhari headed All Progressive Congress, APC, Federal Government’s drive to stamp its control on what is churned out as information within the Nigerian media space as it has become obvious that the administration is not […]

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EFCC and charge of opposition witch-hunt, By Erasmus Ikhide

Daily Dispatch August 25, 2021

Corruption has been the bane of national development of Nigeria which showed so much potential dating back in 1960. Billions of dollars has been lost to the scourge thereby making mendicants out of most of her citizens. Nigerians heaved a great sigh of relief when the then administration of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo created the Economic […]

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Buhari: Our president, their patient

Daily Dispatch August 23, 2021

By Tunde Odesola His name outnumbers the 26 letters of the English alphabet. Arguably, the most creative hands to ever hold a chisel and a paintbrush, but unmistakably the sublime genius embodying the inventive force of the Renaissance Age. A sculptor, painter, architect, poet and engineer, Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni is the 38-letter name […]

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UNIOSUN: How the frog broke its thigh

Daily Dispatch August 16, 2021

By Tunde Odesola Over the weekend, I gave thoughts to the snowflake nature of Man. I arrived at the conclusion that the mind of Man is a tragic theatre with a cast, whose hero commits an error which turns into a horror that smashes him down below zero in terror. I also gave thoughts to […]