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The mistakes that leaders make

Daily Dispatch March 9, 2025

By Bolanle Bolawole Leaders at both local and international levels make mistakes that reverberate with dire consequences for themselves, their peoples, and other peoples all over the world. Mistakes that leaders make often lead to wars – be they at local or international level as well. Lives

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Like journalism, like footballing?

Daily Dispatch March 3, 2025

By Bolanle BOLAWOLEturnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 Although I love watching football, I am not a football fanatic. Each time I sit before the television, it is almost always going to be to watch one football match or the other. I don’t like watching movies. They seem to me a world of make-believe and illusion. They […]

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Why are Yoruba always the ‘problem’ of Nigeria?

Daily Dispatch December 18, 2024

By BOLA BOLAWOLE “And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel? And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father’s house…” 1 Kings 18: 17 – 18). There are occasions when a writer sets out to write one thing but […]

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Fear history!

Daily Dispatch September 15, 2024

By Bolanle BOLAWOLEturnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 Just as they say that social media neither sleep nor slumber, history also never forgets! The saying goes that today’s happenings constitute tomorrow’s history. Some of my contemporaries at Great Ife used to summarise History, my course of study, as “Oba ku; Oba je” meaning, one king dies and […]