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Why Jonathan Won’t Contest, Whatever the Courts Say

Daily Dispatch September 4, 2025

By Azu Ishiekwene After the main opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) announced last week that it would zone the presidency to the South in 2027, some names have been widely mentioned as possible frontrunners. Former President Goodluck Jonathan and the Labour Party’s presidential

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The looming gubernatorial contests in Ekiti, Osun…

Daily Dispatch September 3, 2025

By Bola BOLAWOLEturnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 (Published in the TREASURES column on the back page of the New Telegraph newspaper edition of Wednesday 3 August, 2025). “Last week we postponed discussion on the coming governorship elections in Ekiti and Osun states…” “Yes! Nigeria has become a country of one day, one trouble. If you don’t […]

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2027: Governor Bala Mohammed’s Confusing Signals

Daily Dispatch September 2, 2025

BY ZAINAB SULEIMAN OKINO In 2023, Governor Bala Mohammed was presumed to be nursing presidential ambitions. Though still in his first term as governor of Bauchi state, it was nearly inconceivable that a first-term governor would throw his hat in the ring unless he was 100 percent certain. He couldn’t have been, because Tinubu almost […]

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Understanding BPP DG’s case for procurement lawyers

Daily Dispatch September 1, 2025

By Sufuyan Ojeifo Nigeria has never been short of lawyers. The country produces them in battalions, armed with wigs, gowns, and a fondness for quoting obscure Latin phrases that leave fellow citizens scratching their heads. What Nigeria has lacked, however, are lawyers who can save a road before it crumbles; or, rescue a power plant […]

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Did Ifa Fail The People Of Ipetumodu?

Daily Dispatch September 1, 2025

By Kazeem Akintunde The people of Ipetumodu, a bustling community in Ife North Local Government area of Osun State in 2019, selected Prince Joseph Olugbenga Oloyede to be the new Apetu of Ipetumodu after the demise of Oba James Adedokun Adegoke Akunraaledoye II who joined his ancestors in 2017.The two-year gap of enthroning the new […]

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2027: Has the PDP crawled out of its challenges?

Daily Dispatch August 31, 2025

By Taiwo Adisa (Published by the Sunday Tribune, August 31, 2025) Sometime last year, I was in a conversation with a former member of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). It was in the thick of the steep cluelessness of the party’s leaders about the way out of the myriads […]