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HEALTH

IAS, WHO collaborate on new HIV research agendas

Daily Dispatch July 23, 2017

To improve the outcomes for children and adolescents living with HIV, the International AIDS Society(IAS) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have developed new priority research agendas. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the IAS’s Collaborative Initiative for Paediatric HIV

Politics

Those calling for Saraki’s recall embarrassing God- Group

Daily Dispatch July 23, 2017

A political group of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Progresives Youth Forum (PYF) has described as ‘laughable’ and embarrassment to God, those making move within the Kwara Central Senatorial zone to recall the Senate President Abubakar Bukola Saraki. A statement signed on Sunday in Abuja by the PYF Chairman and Secretary Alhaji Mahmud Lawal and

Obasanjo reveals those who gave him $150,000 to start life after leaving prison in 1998

Daily Dispatch July 23, 2017

Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has revealed that the founder of Cable News Network, CNN, Ted Turner and Ford Foundation both gave him the sum of $150,000 as a lifeline after he was released from prison by former Head of State, Gen Abdulsalami Abubakar(rtd) in 1998. Obasanjo, who disclosed that he left prison broke, added that […]

ENTERTAINMENT

60 % of proceeds from Tuface concert for IDPs–UNHCR

Daily Dispatch July 23, 2017

Sixty per cent of the proceeds realised from the Tuface charity concert would be channelled toward providing protection and empowerment of the Internally Displaced Persons in the North-East. Mr Jose-Antonio Canhandula, Country Representative, United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), has said this at a charity concert on Saturday in Abuja. The concert was

NEWS

Fight against trafficking: NAPTIP set to work with Italian security authorities

Daily Dispatch July 23, 2017

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) says it will work in partnership with Italian security authorities to ensure effective fight against human trafficking. In a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja, Mr Josiah Emerole, NAPTIP’s Press and Public Relations Officer, said human traffickers’ activities would be tremendously curtailed with

BUSINESS

BUA Group, Virgin Mobile and Vodacom seeking to buy former Etisalat Nigeria

Daily Dispatch July 23, 2017

Three companies BUA Group, Virgin Mobile from the United Kingdom and Vodacom of South Africa have shown strong interest in 9Mobile, formerly Etisalat Nigeria. A few others have also signified interest to takeover 9Mobile which still enjoys large patronage and loyalty despite its crisis. DAILY POST gathered that the number one item on negotiations with […]