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Makinde’s broadcast on security: A quick takeaway | By Taiwo Adisa

Daily Dispatch January 24, 2021

On Wednesday, January 20, 2021, Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State addressed residents of the state in a state-wide broadcast. The broadcast was principally aimed at dousing the rising tension among farmers and herders in parts of Oke-Ogun and Ibarapa axes of the state, as well as clear some

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Can African bulletproof stop AK-47 bullets?

Daily Dispatch January 18, 2021

By Odesola Abomination walked naked in Elegbeka community of Ose Local Government Area in Ondo State on November 26, 2020 when some sons of darkness, brandishing guns, killed a god. First, they cocked their guns and kidnapped the god. Moments later, they shot the god, shedding the blue blood of a first-class Ondo traditional ruler, […]

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How Will Africa Remember Donald Trump? Here Is How, By Azu Ishiekwene

Daily Dispatch January 14, 2021

US President Donald Trump may have lost re-election but he would be escorted out of the White House on Tuesday night with a special prize: Africa’s worst friend in modern times. Not that it matters to Trump one way or the other. We can only hope that after four years of spite, insults and hostilities, […]

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Grave Concerns: Tribute to AA AbdulSalam ( 1954- 2020), By Issa Aremu

Daily Dispatch January 14, 2021

At times like these when the world some 2 millions COVID: 19 fatalities-victims, with almost 1500 from Nigeria, funeral tolling is no more news worthy. “For Whom the Bell Tolls” is the singular classic by the great novelist, Ernest Hemingway. The primary theme of the novel is death. The point cannot be overstated that we […]

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Ogun to upgrade SDC to public Service College

Daily Dispatch January 14, 2021

 The Secretary to Ogun State Government, Mr. Tokunbo Talabi has said that government will continue to build on the existing structures, in order to allow the public/civil servants best among the comity of States public servants. Mr. Talabi who made this known during the assessment tour of the Staff Development Centre, Abeokuta, said government was […]

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No political party should cede 2023 presidency to south-east, by Fredrick Nwabufo

Daily Dispatch January 13, 2021

If the 2023 presidency is relieved of competition and minimised to an ethnic contest, then we are consciously backtracking to the mistakes of 2015. Ethnic considerations brought President Muhammadu Buhari to power. And I am sure most Nigerians have witnessed the calamity that this current administration is. When leadership is robbed of progressive competition, competence