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Secession: Shelve your idea- Emir of Katsina urges agitators

Daily Dispatch July 20, 2017

The Emir of Katsina, Alhaji Abdulmumini Kabir has urged those calling for secession to shelve the idea. He stated that Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo and other tribes are brothers. Kabir said this when the Pro-Chancellor of University of Ilorin, Abdullah Oyekan paid him a visit at his palace in Katsina.

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FG offered me Biafra without Rivers, Benue — Nnamdi Kanu

Daily Dispatch July 20, 2017

The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, on Wednesday disclosed that the Federal Government offered him Biafra Republic while in prison with only the five South East States as the component parts, but he rejected it. According to Kanu, he rejected it because that did not constitute the complete Biafra, adding […]

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Bill on whistle blowers protection passed by the Senate

Daily Dispatch July 19, 2017

The Whistle Blowers Protection Bill sponsored by Sen. Biodun Olujimi (PDP-Ekiti) was passed on Wednesday after a third reading passed by the Senate. Presenting report on the bill before its passage, Chairman, Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matter, Sen. David Umaru, said a thorough job was done to ensure that the bill stood […]

Politics

APC governors insists the party’s national convention will not hold until President Buhari returns

Daily Dispatch July 19, 2017

Governors on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), on Wednesday, said the party’s national convention must wait until the return of President Muhammadu Buhari. At the end of a closed-door meeting with the National Working Committee (NWC), led by Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, it was resolved that President Buhari, currently attending to his health […]

Sport

34 Years After, Reps Demand Compensation For Mexico 83 Flying Eagles

Daily Dispatch July 19, 2017

More than three decades after members of the Flying Eagles national team qualified Nigeria for her first ever FIFA organised tournament in Mexico in1983, the House of Representatives on Wednesday called on the Federal Government to redeem its promise of rewarding the team based on the feat. The resolution followed the consideration and adoption of […]

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Agitation For Restructuring, Result Of Weak Govt Institutions – Utomi

Daily Dispatch July 19, 2017

A renowned Economist, Prof. Patrick Utomi, has said that the current agitation for restructuring of the country was as a result of impunity and weak government institutions. Utomi made the remark on Wednesday in a lecture he delivered at the 2017 Law Week organised by the Nigerian Bar Association, Warri branch. The News Agency of […]