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A laugh offering for President Tinubu

Daily Dispatch November 7, 2025

By Tunde Odesola (Published in The PUNCH, on Friday, November 7, 2025) Sometimes I wonder in my quiet moments how African forebears treated the silent assassins of the body and soul – bleeding in the head, hernia rupture, unborn extra-large child, heart attack, kidney and liver failure, among

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Video: President Tinubu’s response to US concern about terrorism in Nigeria

Daily Dispatch November 6, 2025

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Are Christians being persecuted in Nigeria as Trump claims? Report

Daily Dispatch November 6, 2025

US President Donald Trump has issued a fresh threat to target Nigeria if the government “continues to allow the killing of Christians”. In a video released on Truth Social he pledged to “do things to Nigeria that Nigeria is not going to be happy about” and “go into that now-disgraced country guns-a-blazing”. But the White

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2025: FG Should Make  U-Turn and Admit Terrorists are Majorly Targeting Christians – Prof Funmilayo Adesanya-Davies

Daily Dispatch November 6, 2025

In recent weeks, Nigeria’s response to international criticism has drawn global attention. The Federal Government was reported to have dismissed the United States’ claims about persecution of Christians in Nigeria, describing them as “based on faulty data.”(DW, 2025) Similarly, in coverage by The Guardian Nigeria, the government again downplayed concerns raised by Western

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BBC Report Exposes Intersociety’s Role in Amplifying Unverified ‘Christian Genocide’ Claims in Nigeria

Daily Dispatch November 6, 2025

By PRNigeria A recent investigation by the BBC Global Disinformation Unit has cast serious doubt on claims of a “Christian genocide” in Nigeria, revealing how the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) and allied Igbo ethnic advocacy groups propagated inflated figures and unverified narratives that have reverberated across international

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There Is No Place for a Coup in Nigeria

Daily Dispatch November 6, 2025

By Ernest Omoarelojie In recent weeks, Nigeria’s public discourse has been clouded by rumours of a foiled coup plot involving over a dozen military officers and a former governor allegedly “on the run.” While the Defence Headquarters has issued a characteristically ambiguous statement, the very persistence of these rumours—whether grounded in fact or fabricated through