BUSINESS

Breaking: Inflation rate drops to 16.05%

Daily Dispatch August 28, 2017

The National Bureau of Statistics has released the Consumer Price Index which measures inflation, with the index dropping marginally from 16.1 per cent in June to 16.05 per cent in the month of July. The Bureau in the report on Monday, said this is the sixth consecutive time that the index

TOP STORIES

Pressures from UK intelligence and security reports forced President Buhari’s Return To Abuja

Daily Dispatch August 28, 2017

Intelligence reports suggests that President Mohammadu Buhari’s sudden return last Saturday may have been forced ahead of his planned arrival by pressures from UK intelligence and security reports over planned protest at Abuja House in London by Diaspora Nigerians. There had been enfeebled campaign outside the Abuja House, London, despite growing angst and anger at […]

NEWS

Amazing! Talented Nigerian man constructs bicycle that operates with generator engine (photos)

Daily Dispatch August 28, 2017

A Nigerian man in Borno state has constructed a local bicycle that operates with a generator engine. NAIJ.com gathered that the bicycle was spotted in Maiduguri the capital of Borno state. An unidentified man was spotted riding it. The generator engine powered bicycle is built like a tricycle with three tyres, two at the back and […]

NEWS

We will do the needful to ensure that Diezani is repatriated to answer the allegations-EFCC assures protesters

Daily Dispatch August 28, 2017

Charles Oputa, popularly known as Charly Boy, on Monday led a protest to the headquarters of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Abuja to demand the extradition of Diezani Alison-Madueke, former minister of petroleum resources,  from the UK to Nigeria. The protesters, who converged on the premises of the anti-graft agency, wielded a […]

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

German nurse suspected of killing 84 patients

Daily Dispatch August 28, 2017

German male nurse jailed for life two years ago for killing two patients with lethal drug overdoses is now a suspect in at least 84 more murders, police said Monday. Niels Hoegel, 40, was jailed in February 2015 for two murders of intensive-care patients at the Delmenhorst hospital near the northern city of Bremen. Police […]

LEAD STORY 2

15,000 rendered homeless as flood submerges seven communities in Benue

Daily Dispatch August 28, 2017

No fewer than 15,000 persons have been rendered homeless as flood wreaked havocs in Benue communities during the weekend. The affected areas include Benue radio station and Wurukum Market. Other communities affected were Welfare Quarters, Benue State University community, New Kanshio village, Rice Mill Wadata, as well as Idye and Achusa villages.The State Commissioners for