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Nuclear Truths and Selective Justice: The Treaty and the West’s Dance With ‘Hypocrity’ (1)

Daily Dispatch June 22, 2025

By Hassan Gimba The Arbiter It is a new” word, huh? Hypocrity. Well, it is not a word in usage. But come, you must have seen its closeness to hypocrisy. OK, hypocrisy is the act of pretending to have virtues, beliefs, or feelings that one does not possess, especially when

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2027: The frontline formation of the Nigeria Coalition Alliance Against Tinubu and Kashim Shettima was built on weak concrete.

Daily Dispatch June 21, 2025

By Dr. James Bwala The 2027 formation of the Nigeria Coalition Alliance against the Tinubu-Shettima ticket marks a significant moment in Nigerian political history. This coalition, led by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former governor of Rivers and Minister Rotimi Ameachi, former governor of Osun State and Minister of Interior Rauf Aregbesola, former Senate

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Herdsmen and crabs swimming in Benue’s river of blood

Daily Dispatch June 20, 2025

By Tunde Odesola Long before man dug a hole in every inch of the earth searching for oil, the crab had been in the business of oil drilling. The crab’s house – I mean its burrow – not its shell, is an oil rig at work. For many Great Akokites, the most beautiful site in […]

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Not The Iran We Thought It Was: What Has Changed in the Persian Gulf

Daily Dispatch June 19, 2025

By Azu Ishiekwene On paper, it looked like a mismatch. Iran is not only one of the oldest and most established places in the Persian Gulf but also at least 75 times the size of Israel, with a population nine to ten times larger. Size for size, it’s a modern-day David and Goliath match-up, with […]

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Israel vs Iran: What is Nigeria’s foreign policy thrust?

Daily Dispatch June 19, 2025

By Bola BOLAWOLEturnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533, 0803 251 0193 “Countries have no permanent friends or enemies but permanent interests” – Lord Palmerston, 19th century British Prime Minister. I was aghast when I read of Nigeria poking her nose into the scuffle between Israel and Iran. What is our own, as they say, in the long-standing […]

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A Trial, A Seized Passport , An Abridged Citizenship

Daily Dispatch June 17, 2025

By Is’haq Modibbo Kawukawumodibbo@yahoo.comOn Monday, June 16th, 2025, I drove the 58 kilometers from Abuja to Gwagwalada. My mission was to secure a new Nigerian passport. Those who follow African liberation struggles would have remembered June 16th, as the 49th anniversary of the Soweto Massacre of 1976. An event that reverberated all over the world, […]