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Boko Haram: 46,000 IDPs return to Borno from Cameroon, Chad, Niger – NEMA

Daily Dispatch July 22, 2017

The National Emergency Management Agency says 46,000 Internally Displaced Persons displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency have returned to Borno State. Alhaji Mustapha Maihaja, the Director General of NEMA, made this known while distributing relief materials to the displaced persons in Banki,

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FG assesses liberated communities in Borno

Daily Dispatch July 22, 2017

The Federal Government has embarked on an assessment of communities liberated in the counter-insurgency operations in Borno, to facilitate re-constitution of civil authorities in the affected areas. Alhaji Mustapha Maihaja, the Director-General, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), told the Presidential Committee for North-East Initiative which visited some

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198 Saudi Arabia returnees arrive Kano

Daily Dispatch July 22, 2017

The Federal Government on Saturday received no fewer than 198 Nigerians illegally residing in Saudi Arabia at the Malam Aminu Kano International Airport at about 10 am. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that this number was out of the 1,800 Nigerians living illegally in Saudi Arabia, who were given amnesty to return to […]

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Nigeria losses N2.03t from poor infrastructure yearly – ICRC

Daily Dispatch July 22, 2017

The acting Director-General, Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission, Chidi Izuwah, has said the country losses two per cent of its Gross Domestic Product yearly due to inadequate infrastructure. The country’s 2016 nominal GDP was N101.59 trillion and two per cent of that figure gives N2.03 trillion. Izuwah said this in Abuja at the signing of a Memorandum […]

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PHOTONEWS: NCC holds workshop for Judges on legal issues in telecommunications

Daily Dispatch July 22, 2017

The Nigerian Communications Commission has concluded a workshop for judges on legal issues in telecommunications. The workshop, which held in Abuja, is the 13th edition. Photos below:

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

German Jihadi girl Wenzel arrested in Iraq

Daily Dispatch July 22, 2017

A German teenager, Linda Wenzel, suspected of joining the Islamic State jihadists in Iraq has been arrested in Mosul, a German judicial source said Saturday. “The Dresden prosecutor confirms that Linda Wenzel  was identified in Iraq,” where the 16 year-old girl is receiving German consular assistance, said the prosecutor’s office in Dresden, near the teen’s eastern […]