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To protect life, stop hard drugs

Daily Dispatch March 10, 2023

By Emmanuel Onwubiko Certain occurrences compel the rational thinker to locate the reason for them within the context of altered state of mind or under some influences such as alcohol or hard drugs. Two of those happened yesterday in Lagos and Enugu, simultaneously. In Enugu, former capital of

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How Marwa’s NDLEA Saves Europe

Daily Dispatch February 22, 2023

By Emmanuel Onwubiko Just a little story to try to breakdown the import of this flowery title of this piece. It is generally known that some highly uneducated rich elites from the South East of Nigeria suffer from the affliction of pride and excessive penchant for titles or what some wordsmith appropriately called as titlemania. […]

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Buhari’s legacy Highway to Dambatta and Daura

Daily Dispatch February 15, 2023

By Salisu Na’inna Dambatta The ceremonial flag-off of the dualisation of the section of the A2 national trunk highway from Miltara to go through Dambatta, Kazaure, Daura and end at Kwangwalam, has delighted millions of Nigerians and friends of the country who ply that route regularly. The ceremony was jointly conducted in Kazaure by the […]

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Governor Ademola Adeleke, his certificate forgery and Osun Tribunal: Matters Arising

Daily Dispatch February 8, 2023

By Ismail Omipidan Today, I want to revisit the certificate forgery matter of Governor Ademola Adeleke so as to let Nigerians know that there are plethora cases around the issue. But before I proceed, let me digress a bit. By my nature, I discuss, contextualise and analyse issues based on facts presented. After observing the […]

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Many FCT residents allege banks officials hoarding, selling cash

Daily Dispatch February 6, 2023

FCT residents have continued to face difficulty in accessing the newly redesigned Naira notes, attributing the challenge to bank officials, who they say allegedly hoard and selling the legal tender. The stakeholders urged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to impose heavy sections on Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) found complicit in fuelling the Naira scarcity, […]

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Osun: How BVAS exposed PDP’ rigging machine

Daily Dispatch January 30, 2023

By Ismail Omipidan When in August 2022, I announced to the whole world that in Osun, my Principal, Adegboyega Oyetola, did not lose the July 16 Governorship election, but only lost the vote count, some Nigerians, especially sympathisers of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, were furious. They called me names. But they could not marshall […]