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Hajj Fare: NAHCON Boss urges intending pilgrims to pay balance

Daily Dispatch July 10, 2017

The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria has urged 2017 intending pilgrims, who had paid the initial deposits for the exercise, to pay the balance immediately. Alhaji Yusuf Ibrahim, the NAHCON Commissioner in charge of Policy, Administration and Finance, made the plea on Sunday in Lagos. Ibrahim

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59 ex-militants obtain degrees from Benson Idahosa University, 12 with first class

Daily Dispatch July 10, 2017

The Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Brigadier General Paul Boroh, has said 12 out of 59 ex-militants who graduated from the Benson Idahosa University, Edo State bagged First Class Honours. Boroh, also Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in […]

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Kwara youths threaten to initiate Saraki’s recall process

Daily Dispatch July 10, 2017

A youth organization in Kwara State, Kwara Youths Stakeholders Forum, KYSF, has threatened to begin a recall process of Senate President, Bukola Saraki. The threat was contained in a statement jointly signed by its president, Charles Olufemi Folayan, Deputy President, Ahmed Alanamu, and Secretary Abolarin Olusola. The organization said the long-running face-off between the

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Quit notice: Nigerian students set to shutdown Kaduna

Daily Dispatch July 10, 2017

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), has vowed to mobilise over 5,000 students and 60 affiliate associations across the country to occupy Kaduna State from September 30 to October 3. National President of NANS, Aruna Kadiri, who made this disclosure at a press conference held on Sunday, said the decision of the Nigerian students was […]

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NAF commences surgical intervention scheme for IDPs

Daily Dispatch July 10, 2017

The Nigerian Air Force says it has commenced surgical intervention scheme for the Internally Displaced Persons in Bama, Dalori and Banki camps, all in Maiduguri, Borno State. Air Commodore Olatokunbo Adesanya, the Director of Public Relations and Information, NAF Headquarters, made this known in a statement in Abuja on Sunday. Adesanya stressed that the scheme […]

INTERVIEW

My crime life, by Evans

Daily Dispatch July 10, 2017

Billionaire kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, popularly known as Evans, in a revealing interview told New Telegraph details of his life of crime and the road to his arrest by the Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Team. Excerpts: In 2006, you went for a bank robbery in Lagos and got shot…. It’s not true! It was […]