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A Tactical Cold War Has Just Began

Daily Dispatch July 11, 2025

By Musa Ismail Kontagora, PhD. The cabals in the Villa have succeeded in pushing the VP to the wall. They may be ignorant of the magnifying tendency of this war. He logically declared cold war and willing to give this administration the last straw that will break the camel back. The regrouping

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APC, ADC: Spot the difference!

Daily Dispatch July 9, 2025

By Bola BOLAWOLEturnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 (Published in my TREASURES column on the back page of New Telegraph newspaper edition of Wednesday, 9 July, 2025). “ They initially romanced SDP; then discovered that it was purportedly one of the many spare tyres of the very person they are trying to unseat! They then flirted with […]

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ADA, ADC, APC: Without substance, What’s in a name?

Daily Dispatch July 8, 2025

By Zainab Suleiman Okino Nigerian politicians appear obsessed with the alphabetical positioning of political parties’ names and their corresponding acronyms on ballot papers. This obsession has created a frenzy among the political elite in their scramble to incorporate an “A” into their party names. The phenomenon manifested prominently in the new opposition coalition’s

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2027: Will Governor Sule accept calls by Nasarawa North stakeholders?

Daily Dispatch July 7, 2025

In a decisive show of political solidarity, stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) from Nasarawa North Senatorial District have unanimously called upon Governor Abdullahi Sule to represent the zone in the Senate at the end of his second term in 2027. The resolution emerged from a high-stakes stakeholders’ meeting convened in Akwanga on Saturday, […]

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ADC: Zulum dismisses defection rumour, affirms loyalty to APC

Daily Dispatch July 6, 2025

Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum has dismissed speculation in some sections of the online media that he would lead five other governors in defecting to the opposition coalition party, the African Democratic Congress (ADC). Zulum, in a statement by his spokesperson, Dauda Iliya at the weekend, described the rumour as unfounded and baseless fabrication […]

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Ganduje: Why are they resigning?

Daily Dispatch July 3, 2025

By Bola BOLAWOLEturnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 (Published in my TREASURES column on the back page of the New Telegraph newspaper of Wednesday, 2 July, 2025). Three highbrow resignations of recent are those of the presidential spokesperson, Ajuri Ngelale; the NNPC Limited spokesperson, Olufemi Soneye, and now the chairman of the ruling party, All Progressives Congress […]