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Gun-blazing Wike ń f’ikú ṣeré

Daily Dispatch April 10, 2026

By Tunde Odesola (Published in The PUNCH, on Friday, April 10, 2026) In Nigeria’s bustling cyberspace, Albert Ofosu Nketia is a name that needs an introduction, but his face doesn’t. At barely seven, Nketia’s meme is potentially the most popular kid video in the Nigerian social media

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Agitations for Reparation a Dying Cause?

Daily Dispatch April 8, 2026

By Zainab Suleiman Okino The recent UN resolution that recognised the trans-Atlantic slave trade as the “gravest crime against humanity” did not reverberate across the world as it should have, not even among Africans in the diaspora or those back home. I had expected the resolution to be amplified far and wide for the world […]

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FCCPC and digital theft: time to act

Daily Dispatch April 7, 2026

By Segun Adediran For those who studied Economics at the Ordinary Level in the 1970s, the name O.A. Lawal likely rings a bell. His seminal work, O’ Level Economics of West Africa, outlines the four pillars of production—land, labour, capital, and enterprise—as the essential resources for creating value. Centuries earlier, in 1776, Adam Smith published […]

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Jos Killings: Tinubu’s Stopover And Mutfwang’s Armoured Vehicle Theatrics

Daily Dispatch April 6, 2026

By Kazeem AkintundePresident Bola Ahmed Tinubu was in Jos, the Plateau State capital, on Thursday last week to condole with the people of the state over Palm Sunday’s terror attack at Angwan Rukuba, Jos North Local Government Area by unknown gunmen that left 28 people dead and several others injured.The condolence visit, which was more […]

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Amupitan: What history?

Daily Dispatch April 5, 2026

By Taiwo Adisa,PhD (Published by the Sunday Tribune, April 5, 2026) Parents of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) did a good job when they gave their son a unique name, Amupitan, clearly indicating that the child shall be a man of history. Already, the professor of Law has hit some historical […]

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The Sahel: Seeing Through Russia’s Disinformation Playbook in Africa

Daily Dispatch April 4, 2026

By Umarou SanouAfrica is no stranger to foreign influence, be it from superpowers or emerging powers, from the West to the East, from Washington to Beijing, from the Kremlin to Paris, and from Tel Aviv to Tehran, among others. But what is unfolding today in the Sahel goes beyond influence; it is a deliberate, structured […]