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America and the Parable of a Now-Disgraced Country (3)

Daily Dispatch November 23, 2025

By Hassan Gimba We have seen how America behaves when it sets its sights on invading a country. All the indices regarding Nigeria point in that direction. Its President has set the ball rolling, and we can already see how the chips are falling into place. Nigeria and South Africa are on his

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Editors and the Missing Part of Uzodimma’s Trust Story

Daily Dispatch November 21, 2025

By Azu Ishiekwene When I saw the programme for the 2025 Nigerian Guild of Editors annual conference listing Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma, as the keynote speaker, I wasn’t sure it was a good idea. Uzodimma has been in the press mainly for the wrong reasons. As one of Nigeria’s leading journalists and public intellectuals, […]

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Wike: PDP bites the bullet

Daily Dispatch November 21, 2025

By Bola BOLAWOLEturnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 “Finally, finally, PDP has held Wike’s bull by the horns…” “You mean with his expulsion from the PDP by the factional PDP convention held in Ibadan?“ “You are partisan! The way you couched your question shows very clearly that you are on Wike’s side” “I don’t have to before […]

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Fayose-Obasanjo: Two eboras dragging same pair of trousers (1)

Daily Dispatch November 21, 2025

By Tunde Odesola (Published in The PUNCH, on Friday, November 21, 2025) Accident and misfortune have no permanent abodes, though both roam aimfully about, looking to pounce. They are identical twins with different temperaments: one sprints, the other stalks. Sometimes they travel separately, sometimes hand-in-hand, depending on the havoc at hand. Swift or slow, they […]

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Wordsmith, My Mentor, Dan Agbese Goes Home

Daily Dispatch November 19, 2025

By Yusuf Ozi-Usman “Koko. Like a knock on the head.” Writing on communal clash in a village called Koko in Kebbi State…. “The Muckrakers. They are all over the place.” Writing on the politicians rising up in the second Republic in Nigeria. “Abuja is an unlucky city. Shortly after it was chosen as the nation’s […]

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Wike, Yerima: Building something on nothing…

Daily Dispatch November 18, 2025

By Bolanle BOLAWOLEturnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 My phone rang and a professional colleague rained torrents of questions: “Assuming Nyesom Wike, the FCT minister, is a Northern Muslim, do you think Yerima would have responded to him the way he did?” “Assuming Yerima is a southerner or southern Christian, and the FCT minister is a northern […]