BUSINESS

Shell lifts force majeure on Forcados oil – spokeswoman

Daily Dispatch June 7, 2017

Royal Dutch Shell lifted force majeure on exports of Nigeria’s Forcados crude oil, a spokeswoman said on Wednesday, bringing all of the West African country’s oil exports fully online for the first time in 16 months. The resumption of Forcados, which typically exports

BUSINESS

Why price of local rice is high

Daily Dispatch June 7, 2017

Rice millers in Kano State have attributed the high cost of locally-produced rice to the increasing cost of production of the commodity in the country. Mr Liman Muhammed, spokesperson, Medium and Small Scale Rice Millers Association in the state, said this during a visit to some rice mills in Kano on Wednesday. The price of […]

TOP STORIES

Breaking: Senate confirms three ambassadorial nominees

Daily Dispatch June 7, 2017

The Senate has confirmed the nomination of 82-year-old retired Justice Sylvanus Nsofor (Imo), whose appointment was rejected by the lawmakers and renominated by President Muhammadu Buhari, as ambassador of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Also confirmed at the plenary on Wednesday, based on the recommendation of the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, were Joseph Iji […]

TOP STORIES

Parents of abducted students storm Ambode’s office…. begs him to help them pay N100m ransome

Daily Dispatch June 7, 2017

It was weeping and wailing on Wednesday morning as parents of kidnapped students of the Lagos State Model College, Igbonla, Epe stormed the office of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode to demand for the release of their children 14 days after they were abducted by gunmen, reports PM News. Moruf Ramon, whose 19-year old son Isiaka Ramon […]

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

BREAKING: Military plane carrying 116 people missing

Daily Dispatch June 7, 2017

Myanmar military plane carrying 116 people went missing on Wednesday between the southern city of Myeik and Yangon, according to the office of the army chief and an airport source. “Communication was lost suddenly at about 1:35 pm (07:05 GMT) when it reached about 20 miles west of Dawei town,” the commander-in-chief’s office said in […]

LEAD STORY 2

Nothern Youths Threat: Afenifere urges Northern leaders to call their youths to order

Daily Dispatch June 7, 2017

Pan-Yoruba political organisation, Afenifere, has warned that the three months eviction issued by the Coalition of Northern Youths, CNY, for Igbos to vacate the North may be the beginning of the end of Nigeria. Spokesperson of Afenifere, Yinka Odumakin, while reacting to the eviction notice, urged Northern elders to call their youths to order. “Carrying […]