INTERNATIONAL NEWS

11 beheaded in Libya attack: Pro-Haftar forces

Daily Dispatch August 23, 2017

At least 11 people were beheaded on Wednesday in an attack on a checkpoint controlled by Libyan military strongman Khalifa Haftarsouth of Tripoli, a spokesman for his forces said.  “At least nine soldiers were beheaded… in addition to two civilians killed in the same way” at

NEWS

FG working to release fund for next batch of retirees — PenCom

Daily Dispatch August 23, 2017

The Acting Director-General of National Pension Commission (PenCom), Mrs Aisha Dahir-Umar, on Wednesday said the Federal Government had begun modalities for pension payments to next batch of retirees. Dahir-Umar told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that Federal Government and PenCom had been working on modalities to enable it to release substantial fund […]

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

20 South Africa inmates escape during police truck ambush

Daily Dispatch August 23, 2017

An armed gang freed 20 prisoners in South Africa by ambushing a police truck transporting them from court back to their cells, authorities said Wednesday. During the incident, which occurred south of Johannesburg on Tuesday, a group of men armed with rifles surrounded the truck which was ferrying the prisoners, most of them still awaiting […]

BUSINESS

Shell To Start Gas Production At Expanded Nigeria Project

Daily Dispatch August 23, 2017

Anglo-Dutch oil major Royal Dutch Shell has started gas production from the second phase of the Gbaran-Ubie project in Nigeria’s Niger Delta, the company said on Wednesday. The project is an expansion of the Gbaran-Ubie development which opened in June 2010. Shell, through its Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria subsidiary, said the project would […]

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Tanzania MP arrested for ‘insulting’ president

Daily Dispatch August 23, 2017

Tanzanian opposition MP has been arrested for insulting the president, his party said Wednesday, after revealing an aeroplane bought for the national carrier was being held in Canada over unpaid debts. It is the sixth time this year the opposition’s deputy leader, Tundu Lissu, has been arrested. Last week Lissu said a Bombardier Q400, bought […]

LEAD STORY 2

N11tn electricity scam: ICC hears SERAP’s petition against Obasanjo, Jonathan

Daily Dispatch August 23, 2017

The International Criminal Court in The Hague is considering the petition on the allegations of widespread, systematic and large-scale corruption in the electricity sector since the return of democracy in 1999 and under the governments of former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and Goodluck Jonathan in Nigeria, anti-corruption advocacy group