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Buhari rests in London, Nigeria boils

Daily Dispatch April 12, 2021

By Tunde Odesola As a herdsman, ‘yowwa’ is the likeliest gratifying word to escape from the tight-lipped Nigerian President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) if his cows nuzzle their muzzles against him as they eat hay from his outstretched hands

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My Igbo Brothers, Before It Is Too Late, By Hassan Gimba

Daily Dispatch April 11, 2021

The Igbo are a resilient lot, an egalitarian and industrious people. Defined as a meta-ethnicity native and one of the largest ethnic groups in Africa, they are predominant in South Eastern and mid-western Nigeria. Though there is a claim by some of them that they descended from Jews, the World Culture Encyclopaedia has it that […]

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Fetus Keyamo: Passion Lost To Pleasure

Daily Dispatch April 9, 2021

By: Dr Bolaji O. Akinyemi Wikipedia is the place to have persons defined as they will want to be perceived in relation to their passion, purpose and priority. On this, Festus Keyamo is introduced to the world as a lawyer by profession, Senior Advocate of Nigeria. His passion, purpose and priority were encapsulated in three […]

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Buhari’s trip to UK: Seeing beyond the ranting of an agnostic junkie

Daily Dispatch April 5, 2021

By Ali Abare I watched the trending video several times and yet I couldn’t see reasons for this unwarranted assault on President Muhammadu Buhari. That Saratu Ishaya Audu, scion of renowned first indigenous vice chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, the late Professor Ishaya Audu, could be so animated while she rain abuses and insults […]

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Buhari: Nigeria’s clueless messiah

Daily Dispatch April 5, 2021

By Tunde Odesola I laughed upon remembering Chief Zebrudaya Okoroigwe Nwogbo alias 4:30, and a proverb came to mind: “If death are strike dead the slow-motion chameleon with reckless abandon, why shall it not quench the jumpy-jumpy frog with instant automatic alacrity? Tell me!” Chief Zebrudaya, the patriarch of Nigeria’s funniest English sitcom, New Masquerade, […]

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Brazil, Zambia and echoes of a $1.5b Nigerian repair, by Azu Ishiekwene

Daily Dispatch April 1, 2021

Brazil has proved a disaster in the management of COVID-19, but there are other areas where we can use their examples. Like what to do about failing refineries. This hot-button topic returned to the front burner after the Nigerian government recently announced plans to repair the Port Harcourt Refinery. That refinery and the ones in […]