BUSINESS

Nigeria can generate $10bn from honey, hives – USAID official

Daily Dispatch June 29, 2017

Mr David Musa, the Team Leader, USAID Bee Keeping Pollination Project, says Nigeria can generate over 10 billion dollars from local and international trade in honey and other hive products. Musa disclosed this during an interview on the sideline of a Capacity Building Workshop for bee-farmers

LEAD STORY 1

Evans, files fresh suit against police, seeks N300m in damages

Daily Dispatch June 29, 2017

Suspected billionaire kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike aka Evans, has again dragged the Inspector General of Police, and three others before a Federal High Court in Lagos over his alleged illegal detention. In the new suit filed on Thursday, Evans is claiming N300m as general and exemplary damages against the police for alleged illegal detention and unconstitutional

LEAD STORY 2

UK Deports 28 Nigerians

Daily Dispatch June 29, 2017

The Government of the United Kingdom on Thursday deported 28 Nigerians for committing immigration-related offences in the country. The Nigerians were sent back home barely 48 hours after 23 Nigerians were deported from Spain and five days after another batch of 34 were jointly deported by the governments of Switzerland, Germany, Iceland, Austria, Belgium and […]

NEWS

Four feared killed in Kwara communal clash

Daily Dispatch June 29, 2017

Four people, including a graduate, were feared dead on Thursday following a crisis that erupted between neighbouring Ilofa and Odo-Owa communities in Oke-Ero Local Government Area of Kwara State. Scores of other victims with gunshot injuries were said to have been rushed to the hospital for treatment as many houses were allegedly razed in the […]

Politics

Okun residents in Lagos back Melaye’s recall

Daily Dispatch June 29, 2017

Okun indigenous groups and township associations in Lagos on Thursday said they are in support of the electoral processes to recall Senator Dino Melaye, representing Kogi West Senatorial District from the Red Chamber. The group in a statement signed by Rotimi Ajibulu and Adebukola Ebenezer, said Okun residents in Lagos are very happy with the […]

TOP STORIES

N23million Scam: EFCC arrests NABDA DG

Daily Dispatch June 29, 2017

The Director-General National Biotechnology Development Agency NABDA, Professor Lucy Ogbadu has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over alleged N23 million fraud. The spokesman of the commission, Wilson Uwujaren, disclosed this in a statement he issued on Thursday. Uwujaren said Ogbadu was picked up by EFCC operatives in Port Harcourt, Rivers