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Garba Shehu: Buhari won’t resign… he has done nothing wrong

Daily Dispatch August 7, 2017

Garba Shehu, spokesman of President Muhammadu Buhari, has urged protesters demanding the president’s resignation to do their research well as the president has done nothing wrong. The protesters had marched to Aso Rock on Monday, asking the president, who has been receiving medical attention in

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Why IBB, Obasanjo, Abdulsalami Abubakar are conspiring against Buhari – Lawmaker, Kassim‎ claims

Daily Dispatch August 7, 2017

A member of Nassarawa State House of Assembly, Kassim Mohammed Kassim, has accused former Presidents, Olusegun Obasanjo, ex-military Head of State, Ibrahim Babangida and ex-military Head of State Abdulsalami Abubakar, of “conspiracy against good governance” of President Muhammadu Buhari. Kassim, who made the claim under the aegis of The Democratic Youth Congress, Kassim

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Paris Club Refund: Court freezes bank accounts of Abia, Cross River, Delta states

Daily Dispatch August 7, 2017

Justice Yusuf Halilu of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court has issued an ex-parte order directing that the Paris-London Club Refund bank accounts of Abia, Cross River, and Delta states be frozen. The accounts to be frozen are listed as follows: Abia state Paris and London Club Debit Refund, 1019892950, UBA Bank Plc; CRS […]

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Anambra church attack: Perpetrators won’t go scot-free-Osinbajo

Daily Dispatch August 7, 2017

Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has vowed that the perpetrators of Sunday’s attack on St. Philip Catholic Church Ozubulu in Anambra State would not go scot-free. Osinbajo made the declaration on Monday in a statement issued be his spokesman Laolu Akande. The Acting President said he has since been receiving regular updates on the status of investigations into […]

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Delta to sack 530 civil servants – Gov. Okowa

Daily Dispatch August 7, 2017

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State said the state government would disengage 539 civil servants who were not able to scale through the recently concluded verification for civil servants. Okowa said this on Monday in Asaba when he received the final report of the Verification Committee, which had Chief Nkem Okwuofu as the Chairman. He […]

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South West PDP Meets, Moves against Erring Members

Daily Dispatch August 7, 2017

  The leadership of the Southwest Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday held a stakeholders’ meeting at the Civic Centre, Agodi, Ibadan with a sole agenda to reposition the party ahead of the 2019 general elections. The meeting which was anchored by the National Vice Chairman(Southwest PDP), Chief Olorogun Eddy Olafeso had 20 members from […]