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Staff accuses APC NWC of selling donated Sallah rice 

Daily Dispatch September 2, 2017

Staff of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) at the its national Secretariat located at 26 Blantyre street have accused the National Working Committee of the party of selling larger percentage of Sallah rice donated by some prominent members for staff. The staff are also complaining

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Sallah: Katsina State donates N147.9m to pilgrims

Daily Dispatch September 2, 2017

The Katsina State Government has announced a donation of N147.9 million equivalent to SRA1.5 million (Saudi Riyals) to its 4,930 pilgrims as ‘Sallah gift’ during the 2017 hajj. Alhaji Mannir Yakubu, the Amirul-Hajj and leader of the state government delegation to Saudi Arabia for hajj, disclosed this on Saturday while addressing the pilgrims. He said […]

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Security alert: Police storm South East, South-South

Daily Dispatch September 2, 2017

The Nigerian police have increased the strength of its personnel in South East and South South to tackle any breach of peace. According to Punch, the increase is proactive measure on any threat peace that may arise from the activities of Biafran agitators ahead of the upcoming Anambra State governorship election. Biafra agitators had warned that […]

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Boko Haram: Chief of Air Staff, Abubakar orders total cleanse of Sambisa Forest

Daily Dispatch September 2, 2017

The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, has ordered the complete clearance of Sambisa Forest. Abubakar noted that the time had come to completely cleanse the forest in order to forestall attempts by the Boko Haram insurgent group to further carry out attacks against Nigerians. Sadique gave the directive while hosting the Air […]

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Sallah: Buhari splashes N.25 million, rice, a bull on corps members

Daily Dispatch September 2, 2017

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday splashed N250,000 on National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members serving in his home town of Daura. The President also gave them a bull and 10 bags of rice to mark the Muslim Eid-el-Kabir celebrations. The youth corps members visited the President in his Daura residence after the Eid prayers where […]

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CAN Rejoices with Muslims at Eid-el-Kabir …asks government to douse the tension in the country

Daily Dispatch September 2, 2017

The President, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), his eminence, Rev Dr Samson Olasupo Ayokunle, on behalf of the Nigerian Christians rejoices with Muslims in the country as they join their counterparts all over the world in celebrating this year Eid-el-Kabir. Ayokunle who seizes the occasion to task both the government at all levels and the […]