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OBASEKI REMAINS A BAD OMEN FOR PDP—-AFEGBUA

Daily Dispatch July 5, 2020

I have been inundated with phone calls by those who felt my last week outburst against my party’s guber candidate was rather harsh. Rather than controvert my submissions, they tend to pander to undue sentiments to rein me into dropping my gauntlet. This I found somewhat awkward. Between

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BOTH RAPISTS AND POLITICAL RAPISTS ON RAMPAGE IN NIGERIA

Daily Dispatch July 5, 2020

By: Ademola Orunbon There is no doubt that rapists are really on rampage in Nigeria. More worrisome is the frequent news of children and teenagers being raped almost in every nook and cranny of the country almost on a daily basis, with most of the cases going unreported. The situation is so bad that the […]

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Yoruba World Congress not part of Consultative Forum

Daily Dispatch July 4, 2020

By Prof. Banji Akintoye The news broke on Wednesday July 1st 2020 that some members of the Nigerian elite had formed a new organization with the name National Consultative Forum. The news listed the Secretary General of our Yoruba World Congress, Prof. Anthony Kila, as a participant and facilitator in the formation of the group. […]

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On making stamp duty the new blck gold

Daily Dispatch July 1, 2020

By Muhammad Nami This matter of making the Stamp Duty (and by implication tax revenue) the next black gold has occupied my mind even long before I was appointed the Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service. I have thought that given the way the Nigerian economy has been experiencing some difficulties due to […]

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The philosophical underpinnings of Abiodun’s administration in Ogun

Daily Dispatch July 1, 2020

By: Momodu Kazeem Let me say here that the intent of this piece is not to keep scores or undertake appraisal per se. On a normal day I see such an exercise as tainted with credibility lacuna as well as fraught with accusation of subjectivity. That can only be so, far as any development expert […]

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Opinion: COVID-19: TIME TO ADDRESS COVIDIOTS PROBLEM

Daily Dispatch June 30, 2020

By: Kayode Odunaro As a novel disease, Coronavirus otherwise tagged COVID-19, unleashed on human kind unprecedented worldwide behavioral changes across cultures. From the way we extend greetings and other socio-economic interactions among people, a “new normal” is evolving and as the world emerges from its lockdown and ease of lockdown, more changes are in the […]