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2023: It will be great injustice if I don’t contest, says Osinbajo

Daily Dispatch April 25, 2022

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), on Monday, said it would be injustice if he did not contest the 2023 election with his vast experience in the last seven years in office. Osinbajo said this when he visited Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State in his office in Akure. The vice

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We can make the Commonwealth a real global power

Daily Dispatch April 25, 2022

By MUHAMMADU BUHARI What becomes of the Commonwealth should one of its 15 members that is not a republic join those 39 others which are? With Jamaica considering such a move, this question is being asked. But it is misplaced: the modern Commonwealth was constituted in 1949 specifically to accommodate a republic – newly independent India […]

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Re-election: Buhari congratulates French President, Macron

Daily Dispatch April 25, 2022

President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated French President, Emmanuel Macron on winning a second term in office. President Buhari said that the French President’s victory makes history as the only sitting leader of the country to return in two decades. The President affirmed that the iconic leadership style of the French President, who spent six months […]

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Presidency accuses Kukah, others for 12 Tucano Fighter Jets’ delayed delivery

Daily Dispatch April 24, 2022

In 2005, a US National Intelligence Council paper “Mapping Sub-Saharan Africa’s Future” floated the idea there could be a military coup in Nigeria. At the time this was hardly an earth-shattering prediction: 2005 was only six years after the return of civilian democratic rule and just over a decade since the Abacha military coup of […]

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Buhari mourns Alaafin of Oyo Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III

Daily Dispatch April 23, 2022

President Muhammadu Buhari condoles with the Government and people of Oyo State over the passing of Alaafin of Oyo, Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III, 83, whose reign covered major historic transitions in the country, and witnessed transformations in his domain. The President affirms that the Alaafin of Oyo’s 52 years rule was remarkable in many ways, […]

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Jonathan demands automatic presidential candidacy to join APC

Daily Dispatch April 23, 2022

Former Nigeria’s president, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, will join the All Progressives Congress (APC) if President Muhammadu Buhari endorsed him as the party’s automatic presidential candidate, according to a report by Saturday PUNCH. The medium reported that some northern emirs had reached out to the former President, asking him to contest, while he had so far […]