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Flashback: How another pandemic virus killed 500,000 Nigerians 102 years ago

Daily Dispatch April 1, 2020

By Abankula In 1918, a pandemic virus, called the Spanish flu blew across the world like the current coronavirus and killed at least 50 million people. In Nigeria, then under colonial rule, an estimated 500,000 died. There is a striking similarity between the two pandemics in the way they

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TRIBUTE: Wahab Gbadamosi: Farewell To A Jolly Good Fellow, By Kelechi Okoronkwo

Daily Dispatch March 15, 2020

In the coming days or even months, I would still be living in denial of the passing of Wahab Gbadamosi. It’s been days now after his demise at the National Hospital in Abuja. I saw his body before he was interred. But deep down inside me, I still feel that there is a distortion of […]

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The northern elite created the rampaging bandits

Daily Dispatch February 7, 2020

By Fredrick Nwabufo A study by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) put the number of out-of-school children in Nigeria to 13.5 million – as of 2018. An unimpressive mass of this number comes from Borno, Adamawa, Yobe, Jigawa, Kano, Katsina, Zamfara, and other northern states. In December 2019, Jigawa state government announced it would […]

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10 Years Impact: Tony Elumelu Foundation Enhances its Flagship Entrepreneurship Programme to Benefit More Entrepreneurs Across Africa

Daily Dispatch January 29, 2020

On the heels of the tenth anniversary of the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), the private-sector-led philanthropy focused on empowering African entrepreneurs has enhanced its flagship Entrepreneurship Programme to empower more entrepreneurs across the continent. These enhancements, which took effect from January 1, 2020—the launch of the 6th cycle of the Programme—will

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Unlawful: Dangote illegally Operates Coal Mines for Years in Kogi, Yet Government Claims not in the Know

Daily Dispatch January 6, 2020

How legal is Dangote’s operation in Kogi Coal-mining communities? “Subject to the provisions of this section, the Holder of a Mining Lease, SmaIl Scale Mining Lease or Quarry Lease shall prior to the commencement of any development activity within the lease area, conclude with the host community where the operations are to be conducted, an […]

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How NASS Members Corner Billions Via Constituency Projects-ICPC

Daily Dispatch December 16, 2019

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has revealed that Nigerian federal lawmakers, in connivance with executing agencies, have perfected fraudulent means of pocketing billions of naira under the guise of constituency projects. One of the means used in the fraudulent scheme is the duplication of contracts using the same