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Resolving This Fraud Called North

Daily Dispatch March 8, 2020

BY SIMON REEF MUSA The North that once gave vent to regional development now insists against devolution of power, with its former peaceful ambience now enmeshed in bloodshed and destruction. Amidst the torrent of interminable massacres ripping across the region, the underbelly of hypocrisy and

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AKK Gas Pipeline: President Buhari’s big infrastructure push – by Garba Shehu

Daily Dispatch March 8, 2020

One of the big promises made by President Muhammadu in his campaign for Nigeria’s presidency is the Ajaokuta-Abuja-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) gas pipeline project. The project entails the “engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning” of 614-kilometers gas pipeline and stations, traversing the states of Kogi, Niger, FCT, Kaduna and Kano. It is to transport dry gas from

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Park Management System: The benefits in GSM’s innovation

Daily Dispatch March 8, 2020

In a rather quiet but deft move, the Oyo State government has brought a decent closure to the reign of terror and violence that typifies motor parks in many parts of the South-West region of the country. If it is to be taken that Oyo is a “Pace Setter” state, it must also be acknowledged […]

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A new case for a Commonwealth based on trade – By Muhammadu Buhari

Daily Dispatch January 19, 2020

The United Kingdom’s exit of the European Union is now all but certain. Only the passage of time will reveal what their new relationship shall be. But with this new arrangement, I – like many other Commonwealth leaders – also seek a new settlement: not only of closer relations between the UK and my own […]

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Taxing The Poor For Buhari’s Daughter’s Enjoyment

Daily Dispatch January 15, 2020

By Erasmus  Ikhide  SINCE Major General President Muhammadu Buhari frauded his way into power with the integrity mantra, some of us who supported him initially have been stoically beating integrity into his integrity-challenged head and government. Regrettably, all such laudable efforts, setting the agenda for his ethnically-induced regime fall into deaf

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The Imo gubernatorial judgment- A painful but legally correct verdict- By Kenneth Ikonne

Daily Dispatch January 15, 2020

It is indeed a perplFCCexing paradox: Hope Uzodinma may not have won the 2019 Imo State gubernatorial election, yet the Supreme Court, on the facts, was right in declaring him the winner of that election in law. The error was not the Supreme Court’s, but that of Governor Emeka Ihedioha’s legal team; and it was […]