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Rebased GDP: Understanding the Issues

Daily Dispatch July 10, 2025

By Isiaq Ajibola With the benefit of insight, not long from now, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) will release Nigeria’s rebased GDP figures, updating the nation’s economic data for the first time in over a decade. This is no small matter, considering the length of the gap. GDP rebasing

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Again, Trump’s Way or the Highway

Daily Dispatch July 10, 2025

By Azu Ishiekwene It’s hard not to love US President Donald Trump. He is the world’s most powerful president and wears his preeminence on his sleeve. Not for him the crooked modesty of the Chinese or the boring self-effacement of the British.Six months after his second inauguration, it’s been one day, one Trump. Two of […]

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APC, ADC: Spot the difference!

Daily Dispatch July 9, 2025

By Bola BOLAWOLEturnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 (Published in my TREASURES column on the back page of New Telegraph newspaper edition of Wednesday, 9 July, 2025). “ They initially romanced SDP; then discovered that it was purportedly one of the many spare tyres of the very person they are trying to unseat! They then flirted with […]

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ADA, ADC, APC: Without substance, What’s in a name?

Daily Dispatch July 8, 2025

By Zainab Suleiman Okino Nigerian politicians appear obsessed with the alphabetical positioning of political parties’ names and their corresponding acronyms on ballot papers. This obsession has created a frenzy among the political elite in their scramble to incorporate an “A” into their party names. The phenomenon manifested prominently in the new opposition coalition’s

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An Open Letter to Papa John Odigie-Oyegun: A Time for Reflection

Daily Dispatch July 7, 2025

Babafemi Ojudu Papa John Oyegun,Domo Sir, I watched my friend and compatriot in the struggle for democracy, Bashorun Dele Momodu, speak glowingly about you on television this morning. He meant well. In his usual passionate manner, he presented you as a symbol of hope and renewal in Nigeria’s political space—as a leading light in the […]

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2027: Will Governor Sule accept calls by Nasarawa North stakeholders?

Daily Dispatch July 7, 2025

In a decisive show of political solidarity, stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) from Nasarawa North Senatorial District have unanimously called upon Governor Abdullahi Sule to represent the zone in the Senate at the end of his second term in 2027. The resolution emerged from a high-stakes stakeholders’ meeting convened in Akwanga on Saturday, […]