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A glimpse into Ogun budget of recovery and sustainability

Daily Dispatch December 9, 2020

By: Elijah Udofia When the Coronavirus hit the world early this year, nobody knew that the aftermath would be what Fela called, “sorrow tears and blood”. The pandemic did not only hold the world by the jugular, it dislocated the socio-economic and governance of so many countries. In

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Ending insecurity: A collective responsibility

Daily Dispatch December 7, 2020

By YAKUBU SHENDAM  The society functions like a system with different component parts that must play their roles effectively in other to keep the system moving. Any part that fails to function or functions inefficiently either slows the system or brings it down completely. Systems and networks are therefore, by nature  designed to always work […]

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Between the devil and the deep blue sea

Daily Dispatch December 7, 2020

By Tunde Odesola The molue is a bizarre bus. It’s a bucket of bolts with the loud noise of a helicopter. Indeed, the 49-sitting-99-standing-passenger bus is renowned in Lagos, Africa’s largest capital city, as a mobile coffin. With the clanking sound of an engine about to knock, this particular molue, painted in green-white-green colours, jangled […]

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Why Ohanaeze Presidency should be entrusted to the safe hands of Dr. Joe Nwaorgu

Daily Dispatch December 4, 2020

By Chuks IloegbunamIn 1999, I returned to Nigeria from London where I had lived for a decade, armed with my biography of Major-General Aguiyi-Ironsi. I needed to have the book introduced to the reading public. Friends advised that it should be launched in Abuja, Enugu and Lagos, given the late Ironsi’s pedigree as a national […]

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Of Ogun budget of recovery and sustainability

Daily Dispatch December 3, 2020

By: Adémólá Òrúnbon It is no longer news that the fear of the unknown is occasioned by the dwindling fortune of oil in the International market, Nigeria’s major economic backbone which is now below $40 per barrel in the world market. But what is yet to be seen is how the Federal Government of Nigeria […]

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Buhari taking Nigeria to the Promised Land

Daily Dispatch November 30, 2020

By Odesola In case you’re not Daniel, and you wish to come out of the lions’ den unhurt, employ satire. Satire is the whispering roar of the ocean that sweeps away the vilest of powerful men. Satire: the claws of the whirlwind eagle that snatch up the spitting cobra before it slithers into its hole. […]