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An encounter with a doctor: It’s your life

Daily Dispatch August 12, 2021

By Azu Ishiekwene This is not a good time to talk about medical doctors, especially when those in the public sector are on strike to press for better conditions of service. But I didn’t choose this encounter; the encounter chose me. And, in any case, my own experience was not at a public

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Still on the Prollferation of Human Trafficking in Nigeria

Daily Dispatch August 12, 2021

By Bilkisu Isa Salihu.    Human trafficking in Nigeria have continued to take disturbing dimensions with socio-economic, moral and cultural consequences to the individual as well as national development. Such consequences remind one of the period of trans-Atlantic slave trade. Trafficking in human beings are clandestine global enterprises that affect almost all countries

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Still on the prollferation of human trafficking in Nigeria

Daily Dispatch August 6, 2021

By Bilkisu Isa Salihu. Human trafficking in Nigeria have continued to take disturbing dimensions with socio-economic, moral and cultural consequences to the individual as well as national development. Such consequences remind one of the period of trans-Atlantic slave trade. Trafficking in human beings are clandestine global enterprises that affect almost all countries

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What Jega didn’t say about APC and PDP

Daily Dispatch August 5, 2021

By Azu Ishiekwene The former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, got himself in soup last week.  His offence was saying it is futile to compare Nigeria’s two main political parties – the All Progressives Congress and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). Without mincing his words, he said there’s nothing […]

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Haba, Kyari!

Daily Dispatch August 2, 2021

By Tunde Odesola If you went to nursery or primary school in Nigeria, you’re unlikely to miss the deafening ‘A-for-apple’ cognitive verbal rendition schoolchildren crammed and screamed. ‘A-for-apple!’, ‘B-for-ball!’, ‘C-for-cake!’, ‘D-for-dog!’, ‘E-for-egg!’, ‘F-for-fish!’ ‘G-for-goat!’, ‘H-for-hen!’, ‘I-for-ink!’, ‘J-for-jug!’. In my kindergarten days, ‘K’ was for kettle,

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Elzakzaky‘s Acquittal: The Imperative of counter-narratives

Daily Dispatch July 30, 2021

By Abdulhaleem Ishaq Ringim The news of Elzakzaky’s acquittal by the Kaduna State High Court and his subsequent release greeted people in different ways. While IMN adherents and some other self-proclaimed human rights and justice advocates welcomed the news with felicity, others who are majorly former victims of Elzakzaky’s IMN’s terror and people in ground […]