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Letter to Mrs. Kemi Badenoch on the Machete and Prison Story

Daily Dispatch August 3, 2025

By Adeola Agoro Dear Mrs. Kemi Badenoch, I’ve watched many of your videos where you speak of Nigeria, not in bright colours, but often in shades of grey and black. That’s fine. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions. Thankfully, personal opinions do not alter the truth in the minds of those

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In life as in death, controversy trails Buhari – 2

Daily Dispatch August 3, 2025

By Bolanle BOLAWOLEturnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 (Published in my ON THE LORD’S DAY column in the Sunday Tribune newspaper edition of Sunday, August 3, 2025). Last week I printed here one of the two write-ups on President Muhammadu Buhari that I said aligned with my own views on the late president’s place in history. Today […]

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Buhari: May our subsequent leaders die at home (3),

Daily Dispatch August 3, 2025

By Hassan Gimba Yes, indeed, the late Muhammadu Buhari was perhaps the best politician of the Fourth Republic. He knew what he was doing when he spoke of Sharia in Sokoto, which caused him problems with the South and Northern Christians. But that solidified his Northern Muslim base and assured him of a solid 12 […]

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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 crown jewel. To say that the vast […]

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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 […]