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Banki, a city groaning under yoke of Boko Haram homeless

Daily Dispatch May 4, 2017

The Nigerian Army calls it “New Banki City”, an optimistic name conjuring up visions of modern housing. The reality is an overcrowded camp for 32,000 desperate people made homeless by Boko Haram. In this ravaged corner of northeast Nigeria, the Islamists frequently launch attacks on military

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A Nigerian’s nightmare failed bid to migrate to Europe

Daily Dispatch April 28, 2017

This year alone over 40,000 migrants have crossed the Mediterranean, many of them are Nigerians. The BBC’s Martin Patience has been to Nigeria’s Benin City where many of the migrants start their journey. It was the most difficult decision Kelvin Imasuen ever made – he would risk everything in a bid to reach Europe. “I […]

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Abia: Sycophancy at its peak

Daily Dispatch April 17, 2017

Sycophancy can indeed be a messy PR formula. The amazing thing about it, is that it is usually a product of an emotional hysteria. Almost, always, a sycophant hardly even knows when he has drifted from the realm of reality and plunged himself into the ignoble act of sycophancy. In Abia State, sycophancy has been […]

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The joy of a Christian-Muslim wedding among Egypt’s Nubians

Daily Dispatch April 13, 2017

The attacks this week on Coptic churches in northern Egypt underline the dangers faced by the country’s Christian minority. But among the Nubians – an ancient nation that lives along the upper reaches of the Nile – Muslims and Christians mostly live in harmony. Nicola Kelly attended a Muslim-Christian wedding, celebrated discreetly after nightfall, in

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THE MYTH OF BADAGRY 250 YEAR OLD IROKO TREE AND THE DAUNTLESSNESS OF LAGOS FIREFIGHTERS

Daily Dispatch March 27, 2017

By Bola Ajao Like the story of the burning Bush and the invincibility of the Bush in the bible where Moses saw a baffling sight on Mount Horeb “the Bush was on fire and did not burn up”, the ancient town of Badagry also in the past few weeks was agog for visitors coming from […]

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The Jagaban Of Nigeria (Borgu) @65

Daily Dispatch March 27, 2017

FULL NAME:              Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu DATE OF BIRTH:       29 March 1952 (age 65) OCCUPATION:          Accountant, Politician MARITAL STATUS:  Married INTRODUCTION Bola Ahmed Tinubu was elected Senator for the Lagos West constituency in Lagos State, Nigeria in 1993, he also was elected […]