NEWS

Buhari: Why I declared public holiday in Kogi – Gov. Bello

Daily Dispatch August 22, 2017

Kogi State governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, has said that the public holiday he declared on Monday, 21st August was to celebrate an African icon, President Muhammadu Buhari who went on a medical trip abroad and came back in good health. The governor who spoke through his Director General on Media

TOP STORIES

83 Children Used As ‘Human Bombs’, 55 Girls, 27 Boys, And One Baby Strapped To A Girl – UNICEF

Daily Dispatch August 22, 2017

The United Nations voiced alarm Tuesday at Boko Haram jihadists’ surging use of children, mainly girls, as human bombs in northeastern Nigeria, describing the practice as an “atrocity”. The Islamists have for several years been using children to attack crowded markets, mosques, and camps for internally displaced people in northeast Nigeria and the broader Lake […]

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Remains of missing U.S. sailors found

Daily Dispatch August 22, 2017

U.S. Navy and Marine Corps divers on Tuesday found some remains of missing sailors inside sections of a guided-missile destroyer that collided with a merchant vessel near Singapore, the commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet said. The USS John S. McCain and the tanker Alnic MC collided on Monday while the U.S. ship was approaching […]

Politics

No place called middle-belt in Nigeria – Ambassador Kwande declares

Daily Dispatch August 22, 2017

Former Nigerian Ambassador to Switzerland and one of the founding members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Ambassador Yahaya Kwande has declared that there is no place called middle-belt in Nigeria, adding that ‘North is north.’ Kwande, who is a member of the Northern Elders Forum, insisted that the North remains one, while noting that […]

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Red Cross: 700 feared dead as South Asian floods pour downstream

Daily Dispatch August 22, 2017

The Red Cross on Tuesday said flood crisis was rapidly becoming worse in South Asia, where flooded rivers killed no fewer than 700 people.  It said that the situation had caused the people living in the region to rush from Nepal to India and Bangladesh. “This is the worst flooding that parts of South Asia […]

EDUCATION

Ghost Workers: SUBEB Conducts Biometric Verification

Daily Dispatch August 22, 2017

The Jigawa State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), on Tuesday, said it had begun the biometric verification of its staff to uncover ghost workers. The board’s spokesman, Mallam Wasilu Umar, made this disclosure in Dutse. Umar said the exercise would cover staff at the SUBEB headquarters in Dutse, as well as in the Local Government […]