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On the suspension of ASUU strike – By Mahmud Yahaya

Daily Dispatch December 23, 2020

Just while we were drowned in the ocean of melancholy and buried in the sands of uncertainty as a result of the 9 month old ASUU strike; there comes glad tidings: “……the strike is suspended”.This news is one that has made it to the headlines of various news medium,

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4th Republic: From Obasanjo to Buhari with gloom

Daily Dispatch December 21, 2020

By Tunde Odesola Because there’s absolutely nothing inspiring about the most popular Buhari that I know, I can’t name my son Buhari. Buhari bawo? Naming my son Buhari would be an unforgivable sin against the infant. But, can you, my reader, name your own son Buhari? Why, if yes, and why not, if no? Naming […]

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Five takeaways from the safe return of 344 Kankara school boys

Daily Dispatch December 20, 2020

By Garba Shehu The safe return of all 344 boys kidnapped from the Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, in Katsina State would be celebrated in any decent part of the world where empathy overrides cheap politics. And for a good cause. The outpouring of sighs, cries of relief and joy over the return of the […]

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Bloggers, Online Journalists, Fake News and The Identity Question

Daily Dispatch December 16, 2020

By Israel O. Bolaji-Gbadamosi The meteoric rise of social media and the attendant birth of citizen journalism have, indeed, reset the way information is now shared and consumed globally. As at October 2020, 4.14 billion people or 53% of total global population use social media. Interestingly, Facebook alone has over 3.2 billion users/readers worldwide and […]

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Sam Nda Isaiah: A man of Incredible Valour

Daily Dispatch December 15, 2020

By Isiaq Ajibola It was Winston Churchill, a war-time British Prime Minister, that was once asked about the length of a good speech. In a witty reply, he said: “A good speech should be like a woman’s skirt: long enough to cover the subject, and short enough to create interest.” It is on this premise […]

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Living dog better than dead lion

Daily Dispatch December 14, 2020

By Odesola In the beginning. They were the sons of rebellion. Rebellion fertilized by years of tragic neglect. Neglect that prizes cow life far above human lives. Human lives wasted daily without a war in sight. So, the heirs of terror turned against the land and her inhabitants. Pinheads turned into warheads. Insanity cages sanity, […]