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Safinatu: The story of President Buhari’s first wife

Daily Dispatch June 20, 2022

BY ABIYAMO 2  INTRODUCTIONShe was very shy and described as a ‘retiring woman’. Yet, this graceful lady who did much of her activity in the background exerted her influence on Nigeria’s most powerful man for 20 months. This is the story of Safinatu, the first wife of President Muhammadu

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How Buhari saved APC from ”political disintegration”

Daily Dispatch June 13, 2022

President Muhammadu Buhari in the course of the week appraised the series of consultations held so far towards getting a widely acceptable presidential standard bearer for the governing All Progressives Congress (APC). The president, who met with members of the National Advisory Council of the APC on June 5, rightly predicted a successful party’s convention […]

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Sokoto: ‘Astronomical’ rise in IGR by Tadaferua Ujorha who was in Sokoto

Daily Dispatch June 13, 2022

Recently Abdulsamad Dasuki, the former Commissioner of Finance, Sokoto state, handed over to Dahiru Abbas, the Permanent Secretary in the ministry. At the ceremony Dasuki drew attention to the reforms which the Tambuwal administration had carried out in the finance ministry. He went down memory lane and recalled that when the administration came on board, […]

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Pomp and ceremony as AAA hits 80

Daily Dispatch June 13, 2022

By Sufuyan Ojeifo He is strategic and methodical. His disciplined lifestyle, shaped by his military background, has explicably morphed into a life of deliberateness, of intentional interventions and solemn engagements in Nigeria’s socioeconomic and political space. He has, in so doing, carved a niche for himself in the twilight of his eon as a consequential […]

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How Far Can Atiku Go Without Obi?

Daily Dispatch June 12, 2022

By Kunle Awosiyan The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, former vice president Atiku Abubakar cannot win the 2023 election without the eastern bloc behind him. And by extension he will need somebody like the candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi to go far. But for pride sake, I do not see Obi […]

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Osun 2022: Factors that might stop PDP’s Ademola Adeleke’s dream of governing Osun

Daily Dispatch June 4, 2022

As the July 16 governorship election of Osun State draws near, the race like it happened in 2018 has been narrowed down to two major contenders; incumbent Governor Adegboyega Oyetola and Senator Ademola Adeleke. Undoubtedly, Ademola Adeleke who only became a politician by accident some five years ago after his brother and political patriarch of […]