ENTERTAINMENT

[Update] BREAKING: Renowned Yoruba author, Adebayo Faleti, is dead

Daily Dispatch July 23, 2017

A renown Yoruba veteran actor, broadcaster, poet and writer, Chief Adebayo Faleti has passed away. Adebayo, an old student of Ibadan Boys High School died Sunday morning at University College Hospital, Ibadan at about 6. am according to sources. Chief Adebayo who happened to be one of the

NEWS

Boko Haram attack in Kano was led by a dismissed military officer – Police

Daily Dispatch July 23, 2017

The police in Kano State ​has given details of how its men overpowered members of the Boko Haram in a gun battle in Kano.​ Kano State Police Commissioner, Rabiu Yusuf, told ​newsmen that ​Boko Haram gunmen were led by a dismissed military officer who was training the others. ​He recalled that ​the ​exchange of fire […]

NEWS

Double pay to ex-govs: SERAP woos Fayemi for crusade

Daily Dispatch July 23, 2017

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, (SERAP) has urged Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr Kayode Fayemi, “to join us in promoting and supporting legislative measures to redirect public funds spent to provide life pensions to former governors for the benefit of the most marginalized and disadvantaged Nigerians. The group in an open letter asked […]

NEWS

KNSG to increase fertilizer’s production with new machine worth N250m

Daily Dispatch July 23, 2017

The Kano State Government (KNSG) has bought a new fertilizer blending machine worth N250 million as part of efforts to reinvigorate its existing fertilizer blending  plant at Kano State Agricultural Supply Company (KASCO) and increase production. The state Commissioner for Agriculture, Dr Nasiru Gawuna, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano on Sunday […]

NEWS

Anambra: 700 suspected cultists, 38 armed bandits arrested in 3 weeks, says CP

Daily Dispatch July 23, 2017

No fewer than 700 suspected cultists and 38 suspected armed robbers were arrested in different parts of Anambra in the last three weeks, Mr Garba  Umar , the state Commissioner of Police, has said. Umar told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Awka that the arrests were clear signal that Anambra was no longer […]

BUSINESS

UK to invest in Nigeria’s energy sector

Daily Dispatch July 23, 2017

Britain has expressed its readiness to invest in pipeline infrastructure, renewable energy, gas and power of the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry. British High Commissioner, Mr. Paul Arkwright, made this promise when the Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mr. Ndu Ughamadu, visited the Chancery of British High Commission