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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

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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 […]

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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 police pensioners are passing through. Let me […]

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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 […]