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Jakande buries them in shame

Daily Dispatch February 15, 2021

By Tunde Odesola History, like Ekiti’s Ikogosi springs of warm and cold fountains, embodies profundities. Either for good or bad reasons, history always cascades down the confluence of discovery, depth and truth, meandering into the past. Whenever history repeats itself for good, cymbals

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Makinde in Ibarapa: A walk through the trouble spots | By Taiwo Adisa

Daily Dispatch February 14, 2021

Early in January, a torrent of bad news started emanating from the Ibarapa axis of Oyo State. The stories were about kidnapping, attacks by killer-herdsmen and destructions of farmlands across Ibarapaland. Incidentally, those attacks were on the heels of the alarm earlier raised by Governor ‘Seyi Makinde when he declared in Saki, a key town […]

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Has the leopard changed its spots?

Daily Dispatch February 13, 2021

……..Who Handed Nigeria Over To The Fulanis?  Someone once said “Fulanis are number one enemy to the Yorubas, and that the British handed Nigeria to Fulanis.” This is not true! The British did not hand Nigeria over to the Fulani.  Parliamentary elections in Nigeria were held on 12 December 1959. The result was a hung […]

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Trump tried to block her, Now Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is about to make history

Daily Dispatch February 13, 2021

Former Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (center) answers questions in Geneva in July, following her hearing before representatives of the World Trade Organization’s 164 member states, as part of her application to lead the WTO as director general. After the head of the World Trade Organization stepped down in August, member countries overwhelmingly rallied

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Lateef Kayode Jakande: 1929-2021!

Daily Dispatch February 12, 2021

BY TEMITOPE AJAYI I find it most intriguing when the political elite, in their usual vainglorious exhibitionism, come with their hackneyed effusive praises when leaders like Alhaji Lateef Jakande die. It is more confounding in the case of the venerable Baba Jakande, who personified service. Here was a man who set an example in public […]

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Lateef Jakande and the Lathieves

Daily Dispatch February 11, 2021

By Tunde Odesola(Published in The PUNCH on Monday, July 29, 2019)The invite should have read, “State Banquet for Billionaire Rulers,” but because the general election was nearby, and they wanted calmness among the sheepish masses, whose commonwealth they stashed away in billions, the invite read, “Governor Hammered Sunny marries 13-year-old Arab heartthrob.” It was also