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Ademola Osinubi @70: The mien, the mask, the man (2)

Daily Dispatch October 31, 2025

(Published in The PUNCH, on Friday, October 31, 2025) By Tunde Odesola When Gbemuotor, PUNCH Admin Manager, returned to the newsroom for the tribute to the departed former Arts Editor/Head of Graphic Design between 1984 and 1997, Mr Ben Bayo Oyemade, I was still piecing the piece together.

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Tinubu, Opposition and Clemency!

Daily Dispatch October 30, 2025

By Olawale Olaleye The one person who seems to have a grasp of the fitting opposition narrative is the ADC spokesperson, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi. You just must give him his flowers. You don’t necessarily have to like him or his current political leaning. He understands his brief very well and is doing just fine. However, […]

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Fashola’s Reality Check For APC Leadership

Daily Dispatch October 27, 2025

By Kazeem Akintunde Former Governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Raji Fashola, took to the podium last week to call the attention of the leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC), to the growing disaffection within the ruling party. At an enlarged Lagos APC stakeholders’ forum where President Bola Tinubu was endorsed for a second term, […]

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Leadership like fire: Akpabio’s path to greatness

Daily Dispatch October 26, 2025

History, in its long and patient arc, is a master storyteller. Its finest tales often begin with conflict rather than applause, with accusation rather than acclaim. Before the garlands and the gratitude, there is the crucible, the fire through which greatness is tested and purified. The recent wave of false accusations against Nigeria’s Senate President, […]

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Dr Madu, the Shamaki of Fika, who became a doctor through providence

Daily Dispatch October 26, 2025

By Hassan Gimba Locally known as Dr Madu in his youth and later more commonly addressed as Dr Mamman, Dr Madu was an Iroko tree of a man, full of compassion and a burning desire to spread health wherever he found himself. His six-foot-three-inch height and athletic build — which a champion heavyweight boxer would […]

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Ademola Osinubi @70: The mien, the mask, the man (1)

Daily Dispatch October 24, 2025

By Tunde Odesola (Published in The PUNCH, on Friday, October 24, 2025) The life of Nagudu paints, in vivid colours of fire, the state of Nigerian journalism. Who is Nagudu, by the way? Nagudu is the black-bellied, fire-eating iron cauldron that cleans up after others. Nagudu sits in the fire, taking the heat so others […]