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Politics● LowSep 11 · Sep 11, 2026, 1:52 AM

The Daily Times we wish for, but can’t have, by Azu Ishiekwene

GlobeAlert Desk · curated from Vanguard Nigeria · Sub-Saharan Africa

The piece by columnist and former Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of The Guardian, Martins Oloja, entitled “Why Should We Celebrate Daily Times @ 100, FRCN @ 75?”, published on September 5, was an angry one. And Oloja had many good reasons to be angry. Daily Times, Nigeria’s newspaper of record, was 100 years old on June 1, […] The post The Daily Times we wish for, but can’t have, by Azu Ishiekwene appeared first on Vanguard News.

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