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BREAKING: Total solar eclipse completes path across America

Daily Dispatch August 21, 2017

The Great American Eclipse completed its journey across the United States Monday, with the path of totality stretching coast-to-coast for the first time in nearly a century. Totality began over Oregon at about 1716 GMT and ended at 1848 GMT over Charleston, South Carolina where sky-gazers

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Stay Home And Build, Rep Tells Nigerians Seeking Greener Pastures

Daily Dispatch August 21, 2017

The chairperson of the House of Representatives Committee on Diaspora, Rep Rita Orji (PDP, Lagos), has called on Nigerian youths in diaspora to come back home and make themselves useful instead of being targeted for hate crimes that lead to untimely deaths in the hands of citizens of they host countries. Rep Orji who stated […]

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The Grip: A poem by Linda Ochagla analysing the picture of Buhari holding Osinbanjo’s hands

Daily Dispatch August 21, 2017

The Grip The grip that says I believe in you The grip that says you are my pillar The grip that says we  will weather the storm together The grip that says I love you The grip that says I will never disappoint you The grip that says I can’t rule Nigeria alone, I need […]

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Non-Negotiable National Unity: Labour hails President Buhari

Daily Dispatch August 21, 2017

Organized labour has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s appreciation speech as “truly presidential” “timely” and “reassuring on the unity and “indissolubility” of Nigeria as a Federal Republic. In a statement in Kaduna on Monday, the General Secretary of the National Union of Textile and Garment Workers of Nigeria, (NUTGWN) an affiliate of the NLC, Comrade Issa Aremu

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Fayose Congratulates Buhari, Says Nigerians Yearn for Development

Daily Dispatch August 21, 2017

The Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors Forum and Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayo Fayose, has congratulated President Muhammadu Buhari on his return from his medical leave but reminded him that Nigerians are hungry not only for food but for development. Fayose urged the Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) federal government to face governance squarely

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APC, CSO in Ekiti State celebrate Buhari’s return, blasts Fayose over comments on the President

Daily Dispatch August 21, 2017

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State and the coalition of civil society groups on Monday trooped to the streets of Ado Ekiti, the state capital, to celebrate the return of President Muhammadu Buhari to Nigeria after 104 days in London for medical vacation. The coalition blasted Governor Ayodele Fayose over the statement credited […]