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Obasanjo winning it for Buhari by Duro Onabule

Daily Dispatch April 16, 2018

With barely a year to the presidential election and until a while ago, beyond speculations and perhaps clamour for particular favourites, we never knew the aspirants. But, more out of arrogance and jealousy, former President Olusegun Obasanjo (already) descended on those he diagnosed should

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Opinion: Turning point at the Federal Fire Service

Daily Dispatch April 16, 2018

“For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for Good works”… Eph.2:10 A ground breaking record has been set in the Federal Fire Service, which will require another group of selfless, passionate and visionary leaders to replicate in future. Engr. Anebi Garba Joseph is the 2nd Controller General of the Federal Fire Service. He […]

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APC: Case for Comrade Timi Frank as National Chairman

Daily Dispatch April 14, 2018

By Jerry Wright As Nigeria’s ruling party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), gets set to elect a new set of leaders in June to run its affairs for the next four years, all eyes are on the party’s highest office, the position of national chairman. Already, names of possible contenders for the post are already […]

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Turkey just snatched six of its citizens from another country

Daily Dispatch April 12, 2018

By  Nate Schenkkan On Thursday morning, six Turkish men who were living in Kosovo suddenly disappeared. That afternoon, a Turkish state news agency published photos of the six looking disheveled and standing next to Turkish flags; it wasn’t clear where the pictures were taken. The news story accompanying the images said the men were high-ranking members of the Gulen

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General Theophilus Hobbes

Daily Dispatch March 29, 2018

Guest Columnist By Chidi Amuta On the scale of anti-heroes produced by Nigeria’s history of violent disruptions, Mr. Theophilus Danjuma, stands out in glowing notoriety. Endlessly rewarded by all regimes since after his 1966 bloody emergence as military supremo and poster coupist, he has also emerged as easily one of Nigeria’s wealthiest men, mostly for […]

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Turkey: UN report details extensive human rights violations during protracted state of emergency

Daily Dispatch March 28, 2018

Routine extensions of the state of emergency in Turkey have led to profound human rights violations against hundreds of thousands of people – from arbitrary deprivation of the right to work and to freedom of movement, to torture and other ill-treatment, arbitrary detentions and infringements of the rights to freedom of association and expression, according […]