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GOCOP to Institute Dotun Oladipo Prize for Online Journalism

Daily Dispatch September 11, 2026

The Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) has announced plans to institute the Dotun Oladipo Prize for Online Journalism in honour of its former president and founding member, who died on August 25, 2026, at the age of 56. GOCOP Deputy President, Olumide Iyanda, disclosed this on

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Dotun Oladipo: Beyond death’s bloody fangs

Daily Dispatch September 11, 2026

By Tunde Odesola (Published in The PUNCH, on Friday, September 11, 2026) Before I encountered one of Nigeria’s funniest and roundest fabulists, Gbenga Adeboye, aka Funwontan, I had long encountered a miniature fabulist in Nurudeen Awolaru, my classmate at St Paul’s Anglican Primary School, Idi-Oro, Lagos State. Nuru’s brilliance didn’t shine through the pages of […]

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The Sunday Stew: Death Be Not Proud: Publisher Dotun Oladipo and the Tolling Bell

Daily Dispatch September 6, 2026

By Max Amuchie At just 56, Dotun Oladipo has left us far too soon. John Donne, the 17th-century English poet and cleric, wrote words more than four centuries ago that seem almost written for a moment such as this: “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, […]

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The Grim Reaper Snatched Dotun Oladipo

Daily Dispatch August 30, 2026

By Kazeem Akintunde It was Benjamin Franklin, an American polymath, who gave the world one popular quote on death. Franklin, in one of his writings, was emphatic when he stated that “death takes no bribes.” Franklin was born on January 17, 1706, and died on April 17, 1790. Perhaps, there won’t be any need for him […]

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Nigeria Has Lost a Media Light, Opeifa Mourns Dotun Oladipo

Daily Dispatch August 30, 2026

The Managing Director of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), Dr Kayode Opeifa, has described the death of former President of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP), Dotun Oladipo, as a major loss to Nigeria’s media industry and the nation. Oladipo, who was 56, was the publisher of The Eagle Online until his death. He […]

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Dan Agbese: A boss and a friend

Daily Dispatch December 15, 2025

By Dotun Oladipo There are two things I avoid when people I adore die: I don’t write tributes and I avoid their burial. Twice in the last few years I have broken the second one: Attended their burials. The first was for my father-in-law, Alhaji Suleiman Yusuf, who is better known as Salam Salam. The […]