COLUMNS

Where Does The PDP Go From Here?

Daily Dispatch December 28, 2025

By Taiwo Adisa The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) dropped the bombshell that leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had feared most in its December 23, 2025, communication with the party. The electoral commission’s stance that it would be unable to effect changes in the

COLUMNS

Against Dangote, NUPENG has no case

Daily Dispatch September 14, 2025

By Taiwo Adisa (Published in the Nigerian Tribune, September 14, 2025) While writing on this issue in her Funke Egbemode on Wednesday column in the Nigerian Tribune of September 10, my sister and prolific essayist, Funke Egbemode, chose to speak in parables. She talked of Dangote and his two wives and how the senior wife […]

COLUMNS

2027: Has the PDP crawled out of its challenges?

Daily Dispatch August 31, 2025

By Taiwo Adisa (Published by the Sunday Tribune, August 31, 2025) Sometime last year, I was in a conversation with a former member of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). It was in the thick of the steep cluelessness of the party’s leaders about the way out of the myriads […]

COLUMNS

Electricity Subsidy: Before We Open Another Scam Frontier

Daily Dispatch July 20, 2025

By Taiwo Adisa The lead story of The Punch edition of Friday, July 18, was capable of raising the blood pressure of many family heads in this country. The headline read: Shocking surge: Electricity subsidy jumps 220% to nearly N2tn. The headline detailed the sudden rise in the nation’s electricity subsidy scheme between 2023 and […]

NEWS

Tribune names ex-Oyo CPS General Editor

Daily Dispatch July 4, 2023

The African Newspapers of Nigeria (ANN) Plc, publishers of Tribune titles, has appointed Mr Taiwo Adisa, the immediate past Chief Press Secretary to Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, as its General Editor. With this appointment, which took effect on July 1, 2023, Adisa will serve as General Editor for Nigerian Tribune, Saturday Tribune, and […]

NEWS

COVID-19: Makinde Approved N5m For UCH In The Presence Of CMD, Assisted With Materials Worth N25m – Spokesman, Adisa

Daily Dispatch July 3, 2020

The Chief Press Secretary to Oyo State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, Mr Taiwo Adisa, has clarified that the state government, approved a sum of N5million Naira for the management of University College Hospital to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Speaking recently in a telephone interview during a programme on Fresh FM, Ibadan, Adisa stated that the […]