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Ataga and the woman in the mirror

Daily Dispatch July 1, 2021

By Azu Ishiekwene In one of my early journalism classes, my teacher, Olatunji Dare, said nothing sells like a judicious mix of crime, sex and money. It’s well over 35 years since he said those words and yet they ring true like yesterday. For over one week now, the country has been riveted on

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Seyi Makinde: Between the end and the means, by Jide Ajani

Daily Dispatch June 27, 2021

“Before people decide what they think of your message, they decide on what they think of you” – Harvard Business Review (July-August, 2013) For Oluwaseyi Abiodun Makinde, his pedigree spoke volumes about his message. But for the arrival of this engineer on the governorship stage, Oyo State was already going to the dogs. Blind sentiment, […]

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A President’s ‘Missing’ iPad And Other Perils

Daily Dispatch June 24, 2021

By Azu Ishiekwene Awkward moments are human, and hardly call attention when mere mortals are involved. But when the high and might trip, they make the headlines. Both experts and lay people sometimes feel obliged to ask if such awkward moments may not indeed, like Freudian slip, mean more than meets the eye. And quite […]

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A take on Twitter the twister of reality

Daily Dispatch June 23, 2021

By Salisu Na’inna Dambatta As the federal government named a team that will dialogue with the proprietors of Twitter, hired lobbyists,, sundry writers and some newspaper columnists are at work trying in varied degrees to cajole, push or intimidate the Federal Government of Nigeria to unconditionally lift the suspension on Twitter  operations in the country. Others

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The electric car Buhari-Osinbajo built

Daily Dispatch June 21, 2021

By Tunde Odesola Chanting a million and one ‘gbosas’ to acknowledge the magic performed last week in Abuja by Nigeria’s President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), and his deputy, Professor Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), would be an exercise in ingratitude. For executing the 8th Wonder of the World, President Buhari and Vice President Osinbajo deserve to […]

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Buhari’s leopard can’t change its spots

Daily Dispatch June 14, 2021

By Tunde Odesola It’s only a 43-year-old novice President like Emmanuel Macron of France that can take a hot slap on the right cheek and go back home to sleep. That can never happen in the Feudal Republic of Nigeria. This oyinbo people sef! Are they weird or wayward, or both? Last Tuesday, a 28-year-old […]