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Celebrating The Life And Time Of A Creative Legend: Afolabi Olabimtan

Daily Dispatch August 29, 2023

By: Dapo Oke The news came like a raging fire in the dusk of 27th August 2003, precisely ten years ago that Afolabi Atanda, Son of Pa Thomas Ojelabi, the Poet had passed away at the ripe age of 71. From the seat of power in Abuja to the periphery of Ogun State and the […]

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Local Government In Nigeria And The Constitutionality Question!

Daily Dispatch August 27, 2023

By Tunde Ogunmola “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them”, says Albert Einstein. According to Professor Nchuchuwe, while borrowing a leaf from the definition of Democracy by Abraham Lincoln, he said, Local Government is the government of the people by the people and for the people at […]

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TO ‘EBONY’ AND ‘IVORY’: A TRIBUTE.

Daily Dispatch August 25, 2023

By Mohammed Adamu PreambleAt last I found it. Yes, the picture that speaks a thousand words! I knew I had it somewhere. Because I know I keep virtually every ‘keep-able’ memento about myself! I do not know how or why I do it, but I do it! If, some fourty or more years ago, you […]

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Gov. Abba Yusuf’s Superlative 100 Days In Office

Daily Dispatch August 23, 2023

By Abdulmalik Suleiman Like similar other governors that were sworn in on the 29th of May this year, the tenure of the incumbent chief executive governor of Kano State, Engineer Abba Kabir Yusuf is expected to mark 100 days in office in few days to come, and it is only fit and proper that a […]

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Book Review: Cyber Politics – Social Media, Social Demography and Voting Behaviour in Nigeria

Daily Dispatch August 21, 2023

By Azu Ishiekwene Author: Dr. Omoniyi P. Ibietan Publisher: Premium Times Books Year: 2023 Pages: 460 Date: July 25, 2023, Abuja, Nigeria My job today is to review the book, and not the man. But since the man made the book, I would, to slightly paraphrase Oscar Wilde, overcome by yielding to the temptation of reviewing the man.  In […]

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El-Rufai: Tough on the Job but Never Deficient in Humanity

Daily Dispatch August 12, 2023

By Terna Francis Ph.D …by the time I returned to Kaduna state, where I was born and raised in 2019, I was jobless. Though the primary aim of my coming back to the state was to undertake a Doctorate degree program at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, how I was going to do that without a […]