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Dignifying The Nigeria Police

Daily Dispatch July 28, 2025

By Kazeem Akintunde Retired Police officers took to the streets across the country last week Monday to protest poor retirement benefits and meagre monthly pensions. One of the protesters who retired as a Chief Superintendent of Police, Manir Lawal, aged 67, painted a gory picture of what most

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President Tinubu, 2027 and Buhari’s sad death

Daily Dispatch July 27, 2025

By Tunde Rahman As if blessed with clairvoyance or possibly having a premonition of President Muhammadu Buhari’s imminent death, former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Boss Mustapha, seemed to have stirred up the debate around the former President’s political strength and likely impact on the 2027 election, even in death. On Wednesday, […]

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Buhari: May our subsequent leaders die at home (2)

Daily Dispatch July 27, 2025

By Hassan Gimba The late General Buhari was a man who, on two occasions, was welcomed into office by Nigerians who dared to hope for a better country. The first was in December 1983, and the second was 32 years later, in 2015. I do not want to include 2019, because it was a defining […]

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Tinubu’s Strategic Maneuver: Balancing Ethno-Religious Dynamics in Appointing Professor Nentawe Goshwe Yilwatda as APC Acting National Chairman

Daily Dispatch July 26, 2025

By Oliver Okeke [Don Olive] President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s political acumen was on full display in a move that caught many within the All Progressives Congress (APC) off guard. Like a bolt from the blue, Professor Nentawe Yilwatda emerged as the anointed replacement for the outgoing APC National Chairman, Abdullahi Ganduje, who stepped aside amid […]

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What ADC will do differently from APC… – 1.

Daily Dispatch July 26, 2025

By Bola BOLAWOLEturnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 Two weeks ago in this column, I asked what the African Democratic Congress (ADC), the emerging coalition of some of the country’s leading politicians, will do differently from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). An amused reader called and engaged me in the argument you are about to read. […]

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Again, Buhari nails Femi Adesina to the cross

Daily Dispatch July 25, 2025

By Tunde Odesola By some indices of human assessment, such as professionalism, intellect, carriage, humility, handsomeness, etc., the erstwhile Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari (of bitter memory), Mr Femi Adesina, was not cut from the same cloth as many of his colleague editors. There was the tale of a toad-eyed, bosomy and big-mouthed female […]