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The Broom At The City Gate, As Narrated by Dr. Issa Perry Brimah In the Cabal Must Go Epistles 

Daily Dispatch February 9, 2019

And there gathered the two or three men who owned the King’s ear. And they gathered at a meeting place in the compound of the rock. And their meeting could be overheard by the brave one in the other room. The one who feareth not to speak the truth and who calleth for an uprising […]

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Buhari, Nigeria and Backsliding Journey to Murky Nation

Daily Dispatch January 27, 2019

By Salihu Moh. Lukman Finally, President Buhari is meeting the expectations of diehard supporters. These are people who faithfully and anxiously have been loyal to that stubborn, indiscriminate and incorrigible anti-corruption fighter, the man who in 1984 bundled all the leaders of Nigeria into jail on accounts that serving civilian government of the Second Republic […]

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2019: Now that US, UK are talking tough

Daily Dispatch January 27, 2019

DURING the inaugural press briefing of the European Union Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) in Abuja on Tuesday, questions were asked as to the essence of such missions. The Chief Observer of EU EOM in Nigeria, Maria Arena, had told journalists that the EU had been involved in Nigeria’s elections since 1999. She said that […]

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PAKISTAN: How can a government damage own successful educational system

Daily Dispatch January 23, 2019

By Muzaffar Khan Awan Historically, Turkey has indeed been a brotherly nation to Pakistan for a long time. However, president Erdogan’s mis-placed anger and political obsession against respectable Hoja Effendi Fethullah Gulen (a well recognized peace promoting universal humanist, scholar and the brain behind the philosophy of universal education) since 2016 or before does

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Points of concern and action – By Olusegun Obasanjo

Daily Dispatch January 20, 2019

Full text of Obasanjo’s letter accusing President Muhammadu Buhari of plotting to rig the 2019 elections. I am concerned as a democrat who believes that with faithful and diligent practice of democracy, we can get over most of our political problems and move steadfastly and surefootedly on the course of stability, unity of purpose, socio-economic […]

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Amb. Tony Ogah, Democratic Freedom, And Limit Of Liberality BY OMONU NELSON

Daily Dispatch January 10, 2019

In the last few months, Amb. Tony Ogah has come under heavy criticism from his admirers, who have continued berate him, not because he has stopped or reduced being the philanthropist that he is, but because he tried to exercise his democratic ‘inalienable’ right of identifying with a political party and by implication, candidates . […]