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The evil myth of the South-East as a minority geopolitical zone and inconsequential in presidential electoral outcome

Daily Dispatch July 11, 2021

By Dr Chinedu Jideofo-Ogbuagu Many lies have been told about the South-East geopolitical zone of Nigeria but none has been as pernicious as the lie that the South-East has the least population and/or the least voting strength in Nigeria. To be sure, the actual population of the South-East is

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Me, Lagos traffic and woman kpalava

Daily Dispatch July 9, 2021

Sunday Michael Ogwu Yesterday, to move from my squating locating in Agidingbi to University of Lagos, Akoka, to undertake a routine assignment took 4 hours. For the benefit of non-Lagosians, it is merely 14 kilometers from Ikeja to Yaba. On returning to the office, it took another two hours. So 6 hours was expended on […]

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Kaduna: A war has been declared upon us all, By Simon Reef Musa

Daily Dispatch July 9, 2021

Since Sunday, the floods of sorrow and anguish have not left Kaduna state. Apart from the abductions of no fewer than 100 students from Bethel Secondary School, Monday’s killings and abduction of unspecified number of persons near the Kaduna toll gate is reflective of the tragedy enveloping us all.Our state has been turned into an ocean of guiltless bloodshed. While the

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The Party Is Over, Really?

Daily Dispatch July 8, 2021

By Azu Ishiekwene If the defections from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) continue at the current pace, the only people left in the opposition may be those to pack and return the chairs to storage before the next general elections in two years. It’s not funny. Apart from […]

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Masterstoke: Kanu The Adulterer And Igboho The Idolator; Choosing Between Sin And Crime.

Daily Dispatch July 5, 2021

By: Bolaji O. Akinyemi. The beauty of a democratic society is its penchant for the rule of law. For this, our founding fathers craved when in hope of it, they fought for freedom from our colonial masters opting for self rule. The generation after them who were nursed and nurtured for leadership from the dividends […]

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A BABEL OF CITADELS’ By Tunde Olusunle, PhD

Daily Dispatch July 5, 2021

Martins Oloja’s typically detailed and characteristically incisive piece in his Inside Stuff column in The Guardian on Sunday of June 27, 2021, practically took out from my mouth, an issue which has agitated my mind in recent weeks and months. Titled, Nigeria Needs Better, Not More Universities, Oloja interrogates the exponential expansion of universities, public