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The Taming Of Siminalayi Fubara

Daily Dispatch September 22, 2025

By Kazeem Akintunde The suspended Governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara, returned to Port Harcourt last week Friday, after a six-month forced holiday. I watched in amazement as political jobbers and hangers-on swarmed him immediately, he alighted from the private jet that brought him to

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The healing power of true friendship

Daily Dispatch September 21, 2025

By Hassan Gimba I have been under the weather for the past six weeks – a period during which I have not gone to my office. Though being visible almost always online may suggest otherwise, I do mean it in the literal sense. And ironically, what dipped me under the weather is the weather itself. […]

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Rivers: Why Fubara may fight again!

Daily Dispatch September 20, 2025

By Ismail Omipidan The return of Governor Siminalayi Fubara after the expiration of the six-month emergency rule has been widely applauded by many Nigerians. To avoid any unguarded utterances, the governor, on his return to the state, appeared to tactfully distance himself from his army of supporters who had thronged the Rivers State Government House […]

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Nnamdi Kanu and the Drama Foretold

Daily Dispatch September 19, 2025

By Emeka Nwokedi When, in March, Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, John Tsoho, ostensibly bowing to pressure by leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, reassigned his trial from Justice Binta Nyako, some of us warned that there won’t be an end to Kanu’s shenanigans.Expectedly, ahead of the resumption […]

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Akpabio, 10th Assembly Racing Against the Clock

Daily Dispatch September 19, 2025

By Ola Awoniyi The Tenth National Assembly, led by Distinguished Senator Godswill Obot Akpabio, is now in the second half of its four-year tenure. From next year, electioneering ahead of the 2027 polls will take the centre stage in national politics. Therefore, history beckons to the 10th Assembly to accomplish the remaining items on its […]

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Useni’s Fight for London House from the Grave Shames Us

Daily Dispatch September 18, 2025

By Azu Ishiekwene In the incredibly sad courtroom drama of Tali Shani v Chief Mike Agbedor Abu Ozekhome (2025) UKFTT 1090 (PC), two ordinary Nigerians from unlikely quarters, each doing what would appear to be their daily work, made the difference.The first was Ibrahim Sani, a superintendent of police at the Force Intelligence Department of […]