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The Tinubu-Akpabio waltz

Daily Dispatch June 12, 2025

By Johnson Momodu In the sweltering heat of Abuja, where the Aso Rock Villa casts a long shadow over Nigeria’s capital, an unusual alliance is reshaping the nation’s future. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a veteran strategist with relentless drive, stands at the helm of Africa’s most populous

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Tinubu The Audacity To Hope: Two Years After

Daily Dispatch June 12, 2025

By Segun Adeleye The second year has gone since Asiwaju Bola Tinubu was sworn in as the President of Nigeria, which translates to half of his tenure already spent! At the first anniversary, the thinking in some quarters was that one year was too short to access the performance of any government. But now that […]

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A Tribute to Uncle Sam at 90

Daily Dispatch June 12, 2025

By Azu Ishiekwene I encountered the relic of his presence long before I met Sam Amuka, known as Uncle Sam. Inside a room in the far corner of the old Kudeti PUNCH building, predominantly constructed of plywood and steel frames, there was a wooden armchair that had been a fixture in Uncle Sam’s office when […]

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Gaza, Hybrid Warfare And Card Of Soft Target

Daily Dispatch June 12, 2025

By IfeanyiChukwu Afuba  Gaza reminds me of the Biafran story in two ways. As a toddler in Biafra, I was only partially blind to the horrors of war. The immunity arising from the bliss of underage, freedom of responsibility, began to wear off as succession of nights and days rolled by and intensity of the […]

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Defections: Ini Ememobong’s shining example

Daily Dispatch June 11, 2025

By Bola BOLAWOLEturnpot@gmail.com 0803 251 0193, 0807 552 5533 Recently I watched an interview that former President Olusegun Obasanjo granted on the floodgate of defections of governors and other top politicians from across the country’s political spectrum into the then ruling party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) when OBJ was in power. PDP was the […]

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Tinubu, June 12 and anatomy of a phantom coup plotter

Daily Dispatch June 9, 2025

By Stanley Ojah The humid night air hung heavy over Kaduna as Colonel Olusegun Oloruntoba was roused from sleep by an urgent pounding on his door. Before he could fully comprehend the situation, armed soldiers burst in, their faces obscured by the shadows of their berets.  The date was March 1995, marking the beginning of […]