NEWS

NAF allays fears over night flying training in Maiduguri

Daily Dispatch August 3, 2017

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on Thursday urged residents of Maiduguri not to panic over spate of aircraft hovering the sky at night in the metropolis. Squadron Leader Obi Obassi, Spokesman of NAF 105 Composite Group, Maiduguri, said in statement that the flying was part of routine exercise.

HEALTH

NAFDAC seals 3 shops in Maiduguri

Daily Dispatch August 3, 2017

The National Agency For Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Thursday said it had sealed three shops in Borno over alleged circulation of unwholesome products. Malam Nasiru Mato, the agency’s Zonal Director, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Maiduguri. Mato alleged that the shop owners were selling

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Al Qaeda frees South Africa’s McGowan 6 years after

Daily Dispatch August 3, 2017

Stephen McGowan, the South African who was kidnapped by al Qaeda from the Mali tourist town of Timbuktu in 2011, has been released and is back home, foreign minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane said on Thursday. McGowan, who had been touring Mali on motorbikes with a German, a Swede and a Dutch national, was undergoing medical tests […]

BUSINESS

MMM Ponzi scheme in a comeback bid

Daily Dispatch August 3, 2017

The money making scam, Mavrodi Mundial Moneybox (MMM), that collapsed months ago, has launched a weekly promotional stunt, obviously aimed at wooing old and unsuspecting new ‘investors’. A letter displayed on the pages of participants of the scheme, urges them to invite new members. Members must invite new participants and register them as referrals to […]

NEWS

Nigerian Pirates Kidnap Moroccan Crew

Daily Dispatch August 3, 2017

Nigerian pirates have kidnapped five crew members, three of them from Morocco, from a general cargo vessel identified as the Panama-flagged Oya 1 around 15 nautical miles south west of Bonny Island. The kidnapping, according to World Maritime News, quoting Moroccan media, occurred 31 July. The attack was confirmed by IMB Piracy Reporting Centre. “The […]

BUSINESS

Northern governors to revive Bank of the North

Daily Dispatch August 3, 2017

The 19 Northern governors have ‎kick-started a fund raising drive to reinvigorate the Bank of the North which was merged with some financial institutions about a decade ago. ‎ Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State disclosed this while addressing members of the State’s Executive Council in Kano.‎ Ganduje said that governors of 19 Northern states […]