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Sam, News and Editors

Daily Dispatch February 11, 2021

By: Emmanuel Bello The story of LEADERSHIP newspaper is also that of how its various editors were hired and fired by the late Sam Nda-Isaiah, arguably one of the most iconoclastic publishers of our era for he built a conglomerate of a newspaper industry from a pamphlet! Sam, in his publishing

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That N30billion NDLEA drugs bursting

Daily Dispatch February 10, 2021

By Salisu Na’inna Dambatta The recent interception of a consignment of 43.11 kilogramms of illicit drug at the Tin Can Port, Lagos, worth over N32 billion by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), is a testimonial that the country has effective and selfless personnel that can and actually perform their roles in the public […]

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Ogun @ 45: Removing the political albatross

Daily Dispatch February 9, 2021

By: Kayode Odunaro  On February 3, 2021 Ogun State clocked the age of 45 since its creation by the military administration of General Murtala Mohammed following Justice Iriekefe’s Commission recommendations. No doubt the state, christened the “Gateway State” of Nigeria because of its location as major and significant entrance to Nigeria from land and sea

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The Sunday Igboho I know

Daily Dispatch February 8, 2021

By Odesola Gangan is the hourglass-shaped talking drum covered by cowskin that talks in the voice of man. Unique, the gangan talking drum is Yoruba’s invaluable gift to the world. Quite unlike countless artefacts stolen from Africa, and transported to Europe, America and beyond, I believe that the talking drum was left unstolen because the […]

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Bill Gates, Peter Obi And Nigeria’s Pandemic By Hassan Gimba

Daily Dispatch February 7, 2021

In the past year, hardly can find a word that elicits palpable fear, confusion, hope and scepticism as COVID-19. Surely COVID-19 has changed the world drastically. And definitely, it has changed the way we think and the ways we interact. The pandemic has also been a source of a lot of hardship because, as a […]

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Good omen for democracy as PMB settles $500m Eurobond loan

Daily Dispatch February 2, 2021

By Musa Ilallah It is always said that Government business in the developed and developing countries is a continuous enterprise in the life span of any country. Nigeria is not an exception to this practice. Indeed it is work in progress that is ideally and morally transferable from an out going to an in coming administration […]