HEALTH

CSO Urges FG To Raise Taxes, Prices Of Tobacco To Reduce Consumption

Daily Dispatch July 16, 2017

The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) has called on the Federal Government to raise taxes on and prices of tobacco to reduce its consumption in the country. Mr Auwal Rafsanjani, Executive Director, CISLAC said this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja, insisting that such measure

NEWS

Boko Haram: Group deploys 1, 730 personnel to Borno

Daily Dispatch July 16, 2017

A humanitarian organization, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Sunday said it had deployed more than 1, 700 personnel to Borno to provide emergency support services to communities ravaged by Boko Haram insurgency. The organisation also known as ‘MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES’, said it was providing intervention in the areas of health care delivery, food and nutrition […]

NEWS

CVR: INEC Displays Voter Register July 24-28

Daily Dispatch July 16, 2017

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said it would display the Voter Register for persons who registered in ongoing Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) between July 24 and July 28. Mr Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, INEC’s Director of Voter Education and Publicity, stated this on Friday in Abuja in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). He […]

TOP STORIES

Alleged Corruption: I’m ready to go to jail — Ex-Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke

Daily Dispatch July 16, 2017

Former Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, who is being investigated for a series of multi-billion dollar fraud and money laundering offences in Nigeria, the United Kingdom and America has threatened to squeal on his co-conspirators, Kola Aluko and Jide Omokore. She said after opening up on everything that transpired in the controversial fraudulent transactions,

TOP STORIES

Diezani ‘received’ £537k in rent, £393k in chauffeur services from Aluko

Daily Dispatch July 16, 2017

The civil forfeiture notice filed by the US department of justice (DOJ) to recover $144 million assets from Diezani Alison-Madueke, a former minister of petroleum resources, has given an insight into her lavish lifestyle allegedly funded by proceeds of shady oil deals. In the notice filed on Friday, prosecutors said Jide Omokore and Kola Aluko, […]

Politics

APC alleges plot to assassinate Delta Senator, Omo-Agege

Daily Dispatch July 16, 2017

Delta State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Sunday raised alarm at what it termed as an orchestrated and pre-meditated assassination attempt on the life of the senator representing Delta Central Senatorial district, Obaisi Ovie Omo-Agege. Omo-Agege The party in a statement by its acting publicity secretary, Leonard Obibi, disclosed that the senator in […]