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I WEEP FOR THE SOUTH! Ahmed Sanni Yerima (Former Governor, Zamfara State)

Daily Dispatch February 1, 2021

You must understand something, all Southern politicians are driven by untold degree of selfishness. While in office, they are all aspiring for the next office. The strategy to get on the ladder is to sacrifice their people, their towns and villages and their region. They do everything possible

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IGP Abubakar Adamu: Two years of a visionary cop redefining policing

Daily Dispatch January 31, 2021

By Ayo Ogunsan “Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.” — Theodore Roosevelt When you think […]

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Kakanfo my foot! (1&2)

Daily Dispatch January 27, 2021

By Tunde Odesola (Published in 2017) The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, to me, is the greatest Yoruba oba alive today. Greatest in terms of his intellectual capacity and his understanding of the responsibilities culture has placed on his divine shoulders. Although the vault of the late Ooni of Ife, Oba Sijuwade Okunade, bespoke […]

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The Sunday Igboho I Knew.

Daily Dispatch January 25, 2021

By Babafemi Ojudu It was in 2009. The Appeal Court sitting in Ilorin ordered a rerun in a number of polling units in the election between Segun Oni of PDP and Dr Kayode Fayemi of ACN. Oni had in the main election and the election petition tribunal that followed been declared winner of the gubernatorial […]

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Igboho: Before Yorubas do the bidding of bandits

Daily Dispatch January 25, 2021

BY FEMI ALAPATIRAThis report will show why a support for Sunday Igboho’s approach against banditry and criminality is exactly what the apparatchiks from their group have long thought of, planned for and expect. Those supporting Sunday are doing exactly what the bandits want them to do before they finally strike hard. So, CALM DOWN! A […]

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Indecency daggers culture

Daily Dispatch January 25, 2021

By Tunde Odesola Music blared. Joy floated. Naira rained. Feet trampled. This is the spectacle of Nigerian lavish parties called owambe, a short-lived rivulet of opulence flowing into the sea of poverty. Despite the sacred warning that the love of money is the root of all evils, man loves money, still. Money has many monikers; […]