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The State Security Service: DG Adeola Oluwatosin Ajayi and the Challenges of Leadership

Daily Dispatch September 28, 2025

By: Dr. James Bwala The role of the State Security Service (SSS) in Nigeria has become increasingly important due to the rise in security challenges facing the nation. With the appointment of Adeola Oluwatosin Ajayi as the new Director-General (DG) of the SSS, there are high expectations for

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Against errant policemen, I testify… But the good ones I salute!

Daily Dispatch September 28, 2025

(PUBLISHED IN THE “ON THE LORD’S DAY” COLUMN IN THE SUNDAY TRIBUNE NEWSPAPER EDITION OF SUNDAY, 28 SEPTEMBER, 2025). By Bolanle BOLAWOLEturnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 Two videos about the police trended on social media last week; one was positive while the other was negative, so to say. The first video was a public relations’ stunt […]

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I have heard people say the only solution to Nigeria problem is Revolution….

Daily Dispatch September 28, 2025

And I ask…. who are they going to topple… The Arab Spring has showed that when revolutionary reforms are attempted in fragile states, the risk of collapse is extremely high. Instead of smooth transitions, many states plunged into chaos, war, or authoritarian relapse Yemen is gone…. Syria is gone…. Libya is gone… Iraq is gone… […]

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I, too, must get American in-laws, the efficacy of prayers and other matters

Daily Dispatch September 28, 2025

By Hassan Gimba (1) Contemplate this: I am someone born in Kaduna just after Nigeria was born, cut my teeth in the undulating plains of Fika, ran around on the cloud-caressing plateaux of Gembu where I started my primary education but was raised in the serene, motherly town of Maiduguri, even though I was told […]

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Beautiful Madness

Daily Dispatch September 27, 2025

By Sunday Oladapo Omoyele Sowore has perfected the art of turning noise into relevance. He is not a freedom fighter, not a visionary, and certainly not the saviour of democracy he pretends to be. What he peddles is a dangerous cocktail of half-baked radicalism and street theatre—an endless cycle of provocation that he brands as […]

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Rivers State: Running a fool’s errand…

Daily Dispatch September 26, 2025

By Bola BOLAWOLEturnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533, 0803 251 0193 (Published in the TREASURES column on the back page of the Wednesday, 24 September, 2025 edition ofthe New Telegraph newspaper). “Between the Rivers state sole administrator who just completed his six-month state of emergency rule over the oil-rich state and the state’s House of Assembly members […]