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Fashola dresses Buhari in borrowed robes

Daily Dispatch October 5, 2020

Tunde Odesola After spending over 46,824 hours in office as the 15th Nigerian Head of State without tangible achievements to show for it, Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has besmeared the image of Nigerian President, Major General Muhamadu Buhari (retd.), with the mishmash

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World Teacher’s Day: Celebrating Nigerian teachers as nation builders

Daily Dispatch October 4, 2020

By Lateef Ositelu World Teachers’ Day is celebrated around the world on the 5th of October. It is also known by some as International Teachers’ Day. The event was established in 1994 and it commemorates the signing of the 1966 UNESCO/ILO Recommendation concerning the status of teachers. And to celebrate this day, UNESCO runs a campaign […]

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Is it appropriate to benchmark Nigeria’s Petrol Price to Saudi Arabia’s Petrol Price?

Daily Dispatch October 3, 2020

Ahmed Adamu, PhD President Buhari, in his speech, compared Nigeria’s petrol price to other countries’ petrol prices to justify his recent decision to abruptly inflate the petrol price amid economic and social crises in the country. He argues specifically that “it makes no sense for oil to be cheaper in Nigeria than in Saudi Arabia”. […]

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Opinion: The injurious lies in Buhari’s Independence Day speech

Daily Dispatch October 1, 2020

One detraction to the national rapport is the hackneyed lies. Lies told and retold many times as truth. Lies told deliberately to tinge a past of acrimony in brushstrokes of harmony. Nigeria never had a glorious past and the ‘’founding fathers’’ never envisioned a congenial future for the country. There has never been such a […]

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Opinion: Nigeria @60: Let’s Dissolve The Contraption At Its Retirement Age

Daily Dispatch October 1, 2020

By Erasmus Ikhide  GENERAL Muhammadu Buhari and his coterie of lame dancers who are rolling out the drums for Nigerian Sixieth Independence Anniversary celebration today know the futility and foolhardiness of such macabre dance on the graves of the perished Nigerian masses. All the pretences and chants about “One Nigeria” – the hollow nationalistic scale […]

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With 600 road projects, President Buhari sets unbeaten record

Daily Dispatch September 30, 2020

By GARBA SHEHU As we mark the 60th Anniversary Day, the record-setting, mega roadways infrastructure development projects by the Buhari administration numbering up to 600 that are undergoing major up-gradation or rehabilitation call for public attention and appreciation. The size and magnitude of the road projects notwithstanding, the clamour by Nigerians for more