Politics

Cabinet reshuffle long overdue-Rochas

Daily Dispatch August 21, 2017

Rochas Okorocha, governor of Imo state, says cabinet reshuffle is long overdue. Okorocha said this when he featured on Sunday Politics, a programme on Channels Television. “It is long overdue,” he said in response to a question on cabinet reshuffle. Okorocha, who was among the six governors

ENTERTAINMENT

BBC Pidgin takes to the airwaves in Nigeria

Daily Dispatch August 21, 2017

Imagine a language without an alphabet, held together without grammar or spelling, which changes every day but is nonetheless spoken and understood by more than 75 million Nigerians. So how would a global mega-broadcaster like the BBC go about reaching this vast, young and un-tapped audience? On Monday the British media giant will launch an […]

TOP STORIES

Ojukwu and i believed in one, united Nigeria —Buhari

Daily Dispatch August 21, 2017

In unequivocal address to Eastern groups agitating for the renegotiation of the Nigerian unity and calling for a separatist State of Biafra, President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the late Igbo leader, Dim Odimegwu Ojukwu, believed in the need to keep Nigeria undivided, and that he also shares the same view. Since President Muhammadu Buhari […]

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Buhari shocks the nation- Dr. Mao Austin

Daily Dispatch August 21, 2017

Nigerians who had probably waited to hear a bombshell from President Muhammadu Buhari as he addressed the nation this morning must have been shocked. This was the observation of journalism teacher, Dr. Mao Austin, in an analysis monitored on Radio Nigeria. Austin said Buhari’s speech was “well and okay, having taken care of Nigerians’ concerns […]

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Nationwide Broadcast: Unity of Nigeria remain sacrosanct-Buhari

Daily Dispatch August 21, 2017

President Muhammadu Buhari has shocked those clamouring for the disintegration of Nigeria, saying that the unity of Nigeria remained sacrosanct. Buhari made this comment Monday morning via a nationwide broadcast. The President warned that his government would not condone elements beating war drum. He recalled that “In 2003 after I joined partisan politics, the late […]

EDUCATION

Fed govt stops seven varsities from running management courses

Daily Dispatch August 20, 2017

The Federal Government has asked seven federal universities of Agriculture and Technology to stop running Management courses and focus on their core mandate. The directive was handed down to the authorities of the seven universities by the Ministry of Education after it was approved recently by the Federal Executive Council (FEC). Already, the Joint Admissions […]