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America and the Parable of a Now-Disgraced Country

Daily Dispatch November 9, 2025

By Hassan Gimba Donald Trump, the 47th President of the United States, released a video on Truth Social threatening military action against Nigeria by stating, “I will do things to Nigeria that Nigeria is not going to be happy about” and threatening to “go into that

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A laugh offering for President Tinubu

Daily Dispatch November 7, 2025

By Tunde Odesola (Published in The PUNCH, on Friday, November 7, 2025) Sometimes I wonder in my quiet moments how African forebears treated the silent assassins of the body and soul – bleeding in the head, hernia rupture, unborn extra-large child, heart attack, kidney and liver failure, among others. I wonder why the rampaging Abiku […]

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There Is No Place for a Coup in Nigeria

Daily Dispatch November 6, 2025

By Ernest Omoarelojie In recent weeks, Nigeria’s public discourse has been clouded by rumours of a foiled coup plot involving over a dozen military officers and a former governor allegedly “on the run.” While the Defence Headquarters has issued a characteristically ambiguous statement, the very persistence of these rumours—whether grounded in fact or fabricated through

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Thinking about midlife

Daily Dispatch November 6, 2025

By Azu Ishiekwene It feels somewhat like nostalgia, but it’s not. Life, they say, happens. There was something else I used to hear while growing up: A fool at 40 is a fool forever. I suspect that the wit here, if I may call it a wit, is that whatever one cannot achieve in life […]

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Senator Natasha’s airport antics and the theatre of distraction

Daily Dispatch November 5, 2025

By Ken Harries Esq In the solemn business of national representation, a senator’s foremost calling is to amplify the voices of their people, legislate with diligence, and defend the public trust through measured engagement. Yet Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, freshly returned from a six-month suspension, seems determined to turn her senatorial tenure into a one-woman

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The light at the end of Trump’s tunnel

Daily Dispatch November 4, 2025

By ZAINAB SULEIMAN OKINO The true Nigerian spirit is beginning to sprout after the U.S. President Donald Trump designated Nigeria as a country of particular concern and doubled down with his “guns-a-blazing, stop all aid, and wipe out the Islamic terrorists” rhetoric, calling for America to take seriously “this genocide of Christians in Nigeria.” While […]