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Tinubu, EFCC And Saturday’s Osun Governorship Election

Daily Dispatch August 10, 2026

By Kazeem Akintunde A total of 2.34 million registered voters are expected to cast their ballot on Saturday to elect a new Governor for Osun State. The voters are to choose amongst 14 governorship candidates cleared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the exercise. Of

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Osun election: Àtàọ́ja should stop running joro-jara-joro

Daily Dispatch July 24, 2026

By Tunde Odesola (Published in the PUNCH, on Friday, July 24, 2026) It’s midmorning in Àtàọ́ja’s palace. The sun beamed a friendly smile, quite different from the furious furnace it was preparing for the afternoon. As gently as the breeze caressed the trees in the palace, two pigeons landed on silent feet in the courtyard. […]

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Gov. Adeleke: We Won’t Sack You for Loving Your Job

Daily Dispatch July 22, 2026

By Kunle Awosiyan About 30 years ago, I nearly lost my job at Fototek Industry because I loved what I was doing. At the time, the late one-man band maestro, Dipo Sodipo, popularly known as Pope, dominated the airwaves. His songs were always playing in our Ebute Metta office on Cemetery Road, where I worked […]

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Governor Adeleke and a tale of three Ataojas

Daily Dispatch July 17, 2026

By Tunde Odesola (Published in The PUNCH, on Friday, July 17, 2026) Many miles apart, two babies were born to different couples in the twilight and dawn of the 18th and 19th centuries. Eleven years was the age difference between them. On the eighth day after his birth, in the year 1892, the older baby […]

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Adeleke: Crime cannot dethrone Apetu and enthrone Oluwo

Daily Dispatch May 15, 2026

By Tunde Odesola (Published in The PUNCH, on Friday, May 15, 2026) In April 2025, woe wore a wear of shame on the Apetu of Ipetumodu, Oba Joseph Olugbenga Oloyede, in faraway United States, when he was indicted in a multimillion-dollar fraud case. Before his arrest and indictment, Oloyede, like the tail of the squirrel, […]

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Osun State’s Staff Payroll Debacle

Daily Dispatch March 2, 2026

By Kazeem Akintunde On August 15th, the people of Osun State will head for the poll to elect a new Governor. The incumbent, Ademola Adeleke, formerly of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), will be on the ballot but this time, as the flag bearer of the Accord Party, believing that he deserves a second term […]