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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

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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 […]

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A quick defence of General Danjuma by Emmanuel Bello

Daily Dispatch March 25, 2018

I’m sure former defence minister, General TY Danjuma does not need much defence and when he does, has very qualified people to do so. But let me quickly stop some people in their tracks with context as they continue to hurtle hate and spiteful lines at the General for saying what he should have said […]

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What Exactly Is Babangida Saying?, By Reuben Abati

Daily Dispatch February 6, 2018

The drama, the controversy, the confusion, the double entendre, attended by seeming cowardice, that grew around a statement, perhaps the statements, purportedly issued by former military President Ibrahim Babangida on Sunday, February 4, is absolutely unnecessary, unfortunate and utterly avoidable. A statesman, the new role in which President Babangida has since found