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Rumbles Over FFK’s Requiem On Kyari

Daily Dispatch April 26, 2020

BY SIMON REEF MUSA The death of President Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief of Staff, Malam Abba Kyari, has thrown illumination into the power corridors and how the man with the red cap was friend to many people across political and ethnic divide. Against popular belief that is often erroneous, many

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COVID-19 ABUJA LOCKDOWN FREE DAY: OBSERVATION AND MATTERS ARISING

Daily Dispatch April 25, 2020

By: Kayode Odunaro I have experienced the COVID-19 Lockdown in two parts of Nigeria. Following the envisaged lockdown proposed at the end of March, I had quickly booked one of the last flights out of Abuja to Lagos en-route Abeokuta on March 27th, 2020 before the airspace was closed to all commercial flights. I made […]

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MALLAM ABBA KYARI: A RARE GEM WITH COURAGE OF PERSONAL CONVICTION by Jalal Arabi

Daily Dispatch April 23, 2020

The Almighty Allah has decreed that “every soul shall taste death.” Indeed that has come to pass for Ya’ Abba and for us his loved ones and admirers world over. This is more pronounced in the encomiums showered on him and eulogies delivered at every opportunity of condolence. Indeed, the demise of Ya’Abba has brought […]

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[OPINION] #OPENNASSNOW: THE PARLIAMENT IN A PANDEMIC

Daily Dispatch April 23, 2020

By: Kayode Odunaro The COVID-19 pandemic crept in on us stealthy like an invisible enemy that it is. Yes, it caught everyone, including the government on the wrong foot and predictably there really was no road map to follow considering the novelty of the highly infectious virus. So action was mostly based on “muddling through”,  an […]

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[OPINION] Post COVID-19: Living under pandemic in Nigeria

Daily Dispatch April 22, 2020

By Kayode OdunaroFrom all indications including positive ones, the Coronavirus pandemic is here to stay with us for some time. Indeed, its effects on the socio-economic life of the human race as it is will reverberate for years to come with prediction of economic recession and possible depression only comparable to the Great Depression of […]

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Geoffrey Onyeama – Tribute to Kyari: The Best Man

Daily Dispatch April 19, 2020

I first met Abba Kyari in 1977 at Warwick University in England. I had gone there to do law as a second first degree. He had come to do a degree in sociology. I had a pending application to do Law at Cambridge and when the result of that application came and it was positive, […]