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The Domestic Goat In Ukana and The Community Yam in Abuja

Daily Dispatch October 22, 2025

By: Celestine Mel For a time, I held my peace. Deliberately, almost ceremonially. I told myself, “Not every family thunder deserves an echo. Let this one pass.” But the drums grew louder and the dance more disgraceful. The cacophony refused to fade; instead, it swelled into a full-blown

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The unbreakable Akpabio: Strength in the face of falsehood

Daily Dispatch October 20, 2025

By Eseme Eyiboh In the grand theatre of Nigerian public life, where noise often masquerades as news and envy parades as activism, one truth remains constant: the measure of a leader’s vision is often revealed by the weight of the storms they must weather. The recent deeply personal attacks aimed at the President of the […]

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Akpabio celebrates Gen. Gowon @ 91

Daily Dispatch October 19, 2025

….Says he remains a beacon of unity, national healing President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, GCON has felicitated the former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon, GCFR on his 91st birthday. Akpabio in a congratulatory message he personally signed, said Gen. Gowon ‘s policy of ‘No Victor, No Vanquished’ after the civil war remains […]

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Akpabio is not a killer — Akwa Ibom elder

Daily Dispatch October 19, 2025

Chief Nse Ntuen, an Akwa Ibom elder and former member, Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly and has known Senator Godswill Akpabio for over 50 years, has strongly condemned and unequivocally dismissed the recent wave of unfounded allegations and tirade of abuse directed at the President of the Senate. In a detailed statement issued in […]

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Uma Ukpai was God’s General, man of global impact’ — Akpabio mourns

Daily Dispatch October 14, 2025

The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has said that he received with a heavy heart the news of the passing of the founder of Uma Ukpai Evangelistic Association, Reverend Uma Ukpai, who passed on at the age of 80. For several decades Evangelist Uma Ukpai, though an International Evangelist who preached the good news […]

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The Trials and Triumphs of a Resilient Nigeria’s 10th Senate

Daily Dispatch October 11, 2025

By Eseme Eyiboh In the unfolding story of Nigeria’s democracy, the Senate remains one of its most enduring symbols of institutional resilience and national balance. Beyond the spectacle of debates and the colour of political persuasion, it is the grand arena where the destiny of the nation is shaped, refined, and defended through rules, order, […]