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‘I will support Atiku even if Buhari declares to contest in 2019’- Aisha Alhassan declares

Daily Dispatch September 6, 2017

The Minister of Women Affairs, Aisha Alhassan, has declared that he would support former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar even if President Muhammadu Buhari declares to contest in 2019. Speaking with BBC Hausa, Alhassan explained that her choice of Abubakar was predicated on the fact that the

BUSINESS

MAN gets interim management committee

Daily Dispatch September 6, 2017

The Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi on Wednesday inaugurated six-man Interim Management Committee to restructure Maritime Academy of Nigeria (MAN), Oron. Amaechi, while inaugurating the committee in Abuja, said that the Federal Government had approved the implementation of the reports earlier submitted by the committee. He said that the committee was earlier

NEWS

135,000km road network in Nigeria un-tarred- ICRC

Daily Dispatch September 6, 2017

The Director-General, Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC), Mr Chidi Izuwah, said on Wednesday that about 135,000 kilometres of road network in the country were un-tarred. Izuwah said this in Abuja at the 2017 Otis Anyaeji and Nigerian Society of Engineers Annual lecture. He spoke on the theme “Transportation Infrastructure as a Catalyst for Economic

Politics

Ekiti 2018: PDP stakeholders adopt Fayose’s Deputy as sole guber candidate

Daily Dispatch September 6, 2017

Less than twelve months to the 2018 governorship election in Ekiti State, critical stakeholders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the State have adopted the Deputy Governor, Prof Kolapo Olusola, from Ekiti South Senatorial District, as the preferred candidate of the party. Adoption of the deputy governor, who is a professor of Building Technology […]

NEWS

EFCC arrests Gombe SEMA boss over alleged diversion of relief materials

Daily Dispatch September 6, 2017

Operatives of the Gombe Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, said they have arrested the Executive Secretary of the Gombe State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Dr. Danlami Arab Rukuje, over alleged involvement in the diversion of materials meant for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). The graft agency stated this in a statement […]

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Benue flood: VP Osinbajo arrives Makurdi

Daily Dispatch September 6, 2017

The Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, has arrived the camp of internally displaced persons in Makurdi for a first-hand assessment of damages caused by the August 27 flood. He was accompanied by two ministers, Tunde Fashola and Audu Ogbeh. Mr. Ogbeh hails from the state. They were received at Makurdi airstrip by Governor Samuel Ortom, who […]