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Buhari trades Nigeria’s sovereignty for Chinese yuan

Daily Dispatch August 10, 2020

Tunde Odesola Marketplace. The telltale firefly that reveals human nature. It’s the field of fortune and the mine of misfortune. Inside the marketplace are darkroom secrets that whelp wealth. The marketplace also contrasts with the muffled yelp of poverty in the sun of missed opportunities. On

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Senator Adeola Yayi: Peoples Parliamentarian@51

Daily Dispatch August 9, 2020

By: Kayode Odunaro Among current legislators in Nigeria at state and federal levels it will be difficult to find one with a record of unbroken service at state and federal legislature like Senator Solomon Olamilekan Adeola aka Yayi. Starting off his legislative career in Lagos State House of Assembly in 2003 as a representative of Alimosho 2 […]

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Why community policing in Nigeria is imperative

Daily Dispatch August 9, 2020

By: Ademola Orunbon Nigeria’s past, present and even the future, makes the establishment and operation of a Federal, State and Local Government Policing or Law Enforcement un-debatably mandatory! Nigeria needs and should have Federal Police, State Police and Local Police! It just makes sense! The local people, the local authorities know the neighborhoods, the local

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Why we need to calm down, by Femi Adesina

Daily Dispatch August 7, 2020

By Femi Adesina There’s this hilarious video that went viral recently. A boy had offended his mother, and was about to get a beating. Tearfully, even before he got whipped, the boy tried to plead his way out. As the mother told him to stretch forth his palm to be caned, he entreated: “Mummy, it […]

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Ilorin and the family house thing- By Tunji Ajanaku

Daily Dispatch August 3, 2020

By”When we gather together in the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound. We come together because it is good for kinsmen to do so” – Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart Ilorin is a very unique community. A blend of cultures that still […]

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APC straw that broke Buhari’s camel back

Daily Dispatch July 27, 2020

Tunde Odesola (Published in The PUNCH on Monday, July 27, 2020) Coronavirus is death’s latest stranglehold on the breath called life. Its mishmash surname, COVID-19, gives no damn about breaking ocular dams and flooding households with tears. Since 2019, COVID-19 has been busy digging graves worldwide, handing out shrouds to families to wrap their dead. […]