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Saraki, Dogara visit Buhari in London

Daily Dispatch August 17, 2017

President Muhammadu Buhari has again hosted the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara, at the Abuja House in London.Buhari received Saraki and Dogara on Thursday.Details of the visit were still sketchy as at

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Amnesty: Environmental failure caused Sierra Leone flood disaster

Daily Dispatch August 17, 2017

The magnitude of damage caused by a mudslide in Sierra Leone was due to the government’s failure to implement housing and environmental policies, Amnesty International said Thursday. “While flooding is a natural disaster, the scale of the human tragedy in Freetown is, sadly, very much man-made,” the human rights group’s deputy director of global issues, […]

FEATURES

Chibok girls say kidnap by Boko Haram was accidental

Daily Dispatch August 17, 2017

e mass abduction of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls from Chibok – the biggest publicity coup of Boko Haram’s jihadist insurgency – was the accidental outcome of a botched robbery, say the girls who spent three years in their brutal captivity. The Chibok girls made the surprise revelation in secret diaries they kept while held […]

NEWS

Another Nigerian Uchena Eloh killed in South Africa

Daily Dispatch August 17, 2017

Nigerian Union in South Africa on Thursday said that another Nigerian, Mr Uchena Eloh, has been killed in the Western Cape Province of that country. Kanayo Onwumelu, Chairman, Western Cape chapter of the union, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on telephone from Cape Town that Eloh was strangled to death by South African […]

NEWS

Ebonyi State releases N1.5b for pension, gratuity arrears

Daily Dispatch August 17, 2017

The Ebonyi Government on Thursday released N1.5 billion to settle arrears of workers’ pension and gratuities accruing from Oct.2, 2016 to June 6, 2017. Senator Emmanuel Onwe, the state Commissioner for Information and Orientation, disclosed this in a statement in Abakaliki. According to him, the decision was sequel to a report submitted by the committee […]

BUSINESS

Kachikwu decries high cost of oil production

Daily Dispatch August 17, 2017

 Minister of Petroleum Resources, Dr Ibe Kachikwu has decried the high cost of oil production at 32 dollars per barrel, saying it makes cost of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) very expensive. Kachikwu made the assertion at the 2017 Annual Conference of the National Association of Energy Correspondents (NAEC), in Lagos. The minister said that the […]