NEWS

We can fight hate speech without trampling on citizens’ rights – Shehu Sani

Daily Dispatch August 18, 2017

The senator representing Kaduna Central, Sen. Shehu Sani, Friday, said that Nigerians can fight hate speech without violating the right to freedom of opinion and the right to condemn the government, if they involve themselves and come together to agree on one simple definition of the term ‘Hate

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Africa must solve its problems – Osinbajo, Kagame

Daily Dispatch August 18, 2017

Acting President Yemi Osinbajo and newly re-elected President Paul Kagame say Africa must begin to look inwards to solve its numerous problems, noting that “Africa can indeed solve its own problems.’’ Both leaders spoke today in Kigali, the Rwandan capital at the inauguration of President Paul Kagame for a third term. Prof. Osinbajo said in […]

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UN: 5.2m Boko Haram victims need food assistance

Daily Dispatch August 18, 2017

The United Nations says 5.2 million people affected by the Boko Haram crisis are in need of food assistance. Speaking on Thursday in an interaction with people at Bakassi internally displaced persons camp in Maiduguri, Edward Kallon, UN personnel, said it had put measures in place to provide food assistance to about 3.9 million displaced […]

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Atiku commends FG for classifying hate speech as terrorism act

Daily Dispatch August 18, 2017

The former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, Friday, extolled the Nigeria federal government for its decisions to append hate speeches into the 2011 Terrorism Act. Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, on Thursday, charged leaders to speak up saying that it was such silence that promoted the genocide in Nazi Germany and Rwanda.   Supporting the laudable position […]

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Spanish police kill five terror suspects

Daily Dispatch August 18, 2017

Spanish police have killed five terror suspects after confronting them early on Friday in a town south of Barcelona, where on Thursday a suspected Islamist militant had driven a van into crowds, killing 13 people and wounding close to 100 others. Islamic State said the perpetrators had been responding to its call for action by […]

EDUCATION

Parents urge ASUU to end strike

Daily Dispatch August 18, 2017

Parents in the university town of Nsukka have appealed to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to suspend its ongoing strike, considering the setback and suffering it would cause students and their parents. Some parents, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Nsukka on Friday, said that if the strike was […]