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NNPCL debacle and the proverbial “Ojú la rí, ënìkan ò r’ínú”

Daily Dispatch August 3, 2025

By Sufuyan Ojeifo The confusion that has engulfed the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited [NNPCL] in recent days has become so enervating that one wonders how long the debacle will persist. Surely, there must be an end to the chaos that now defines the administration of Nigeria’s oil

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Oluwo holier than the godless Ilorin imam (1)

Daily Dispatch August 1, 2025

By Tunde Odesola (Published in The PUNCH, on Friday, August 1, 2025) Clad in a silver-colour spacesuit like Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon, I boarded my shuttle of prose – on a mission through myth and reality – to the ancient town of Ikoro-Ekiti, a lush land that existed […]

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President Tinubu and the Super Falcons Largesse – A Call for Retraction

Daily Dispatch July 31, 2025

By Godwin Kienka I had been a big fan of Bola Ahmed Tinubu from his days as Governor of Lagos State. Two things endeared him to me. One was the dualization of several inner roads in Lagos like the Ojuelegba-Lawanson Road which broke through to the FESTAC axis. Going to the Golden Tulip where I […]

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The Nyesom Wike That History Cannot Ignore

Daily Dispatch July 31, 2025

By Bemgba Iortyom All the introduction he will ever need anywhere in Nigeria today is his name – Nyesom Wike. Nothing more than that. He is easily in the bracket of the five most visible political leaders in the country currently. With President Bola Tinubu on top of it, Wike is in there with the […]

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What ADC will do differently from APC… – 2

Daily Dispatch July 30, 2025

By Bola Bolawoleturnpot@gmail.comg 0807 552 5533 (Published in my TREASURES column on the back page of the New Telegraph newspaper edition of Wednesday, 30 July, 2025) Last week, space constraints did not permit us to reveal more of what ADC will do differently from APC if the coalition of opposition politicians snatch power and run […]

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In life as in death, controversy trails Buhari – 1

Daily Dispatch July 28, 2025

By Bolanle BOLAWOLEturnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 (PUBLISHED IN MY “ON THE LORD’S DAY” COLUMN IN THE SUNDAY TRIBUNE NEWSPAPER OF SUNDAY, 27 JULY, 2025 AT PAGE 22). ‘Buhari’s presidency was a colossal disaster. He left behind a country poorer, more fractured, and more despairing than he found it. Let those who govern today and tomorrow […]