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The Ugly Debacle From Anambra State

Daily Dispatch September 14, 2025

By Kazeem Akintunde With less than two months to the Anambra State Governorship election, the political campaigns have taken a nasty turn, with the leading candidates descending into ugly debacles that partisan politics is noted for in this clime. It is so bad that even those who claim to have

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Opinion: How Zacch Adedeji’s Tax Policy is Impoverishing Nigerians

Daily Dispatch September 14, 2025

By Sunday Oladapo By any measure, Nigerians are living through one of the harshest economic crises in decades. Inflation is in double digits, food prices are unbearable, and purchasing power has collapsed. In such a climate, one would expect fiscal policy to provide relief, stimulate growth, and shield the poor. Instead, the Federal Inland Revenue […]

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Against Dangote, NUPENG has no case

Daily Dispatch September 14, 2025

By Taiwo Adisa (Published in the Nigerian Tribune, September 14, 2025) While writing on this issue in her Funke Egbemode on Wednesday column in the Nigerian Tribune of September 10, my sister and prolific essayist, Funke Egbemode, chose to speak in parables. She talked of Dangote and his two wives and how the senior wife […]

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A visit to the Olunloyo’s at Ibadan…

Daily Dispatch September 14, 2025

By Bolanle BOLAWOLEturnpit@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 (Published in the ON THE LORD’S DAY column in the Sunday Tribune newspaper of Sunday, 14 September, 2025). The Olunloyo family of Ibadan needs no elaborate introduction. Who does not know Dr. Victor Omololu Sowemimo Olunloyo: For his brilliance, especially his globally established wizardry in Mathematics; his

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“Oga Yellow, see your boys” and The Israeli Licence

Daily Dispatch September 14, 2025

By Hassan Gimba About two weeks ago, Nigeria lost one of its finest police officers who rose to the peak of its Police Force. Solomon Arase died at a relatively young age for an elite. With improved nutrition, general welfare, and medical health services, 69 is a youthful age for Nigeria’s elite class. The well-educated […]

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Shameless NLC!

Daily Dispatch September 13, 2025

By Wale Ojo-Lanre, Esq. Of all the issues tormenting the Nigerian worker—the unpaid salaries, the pension arrears, the rising inflation, the exploitative workplace policies, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) leadership suddenly finds its voice not in defense of workers, but in defense of a suspended senator? What an embarrassing fall from grace. Natasha