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Buratai Gives Troops 40 Days To Capture Shekau Dead Or Alive

Daily Dispatch July 22, 2017

The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, has directed Maj.-Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru, the Theatre Commander, Operation Lafiya Dole, Maiduguri, to capture Abubakar Shekau, self-styled leader of the Boko Haram sect, “dead or alive”. Buratai further directed the Theatre commander to do so

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15, 000 Nigerian girls in Italy forced into prostitution-IOM

Daily Dispatch July 22, 2017

The International Organisation for Migration on Friday said thousands of Nigerian migrant girls brought to Italy were in great danger of being forced into prostitution in Europe. The number of female Nigerians, many of them minors, often naive about their fate at the hands of traffickers, arrived by sea in Italy surged over the past three years […]

LEAD STORY 2

Obasanjo mock Americans’ over choice of Trump

Daily Dispatch July 22, 2017

Americans are humans too like Africans in choosing Donald Trump as president, former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo, said in a rare reflection that appeared to have mocked the US election last November. “The fact that America can produce a Trump in this day and age, it means Americans are as human as we are,” he […]

NEWS

Lack of appropriate marking caused Rann’s bombardment – DHQ

Daily Dispatch July 21, 2017

Defence Headquarters has explained that “lack of appropriate marking’’ caused the mistaken air strike by the Nigerian Air Force on Rann in Borno, where a number of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) were killed. The incident occurred on Jan. 17 at Rann, headquarters of Kala Balge Local Government Area of the state. Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, the […]

NEWS

Warri church where single ladies queue up behind men of their choice to propose marriage [VIDEO]

Daily Dispatch July 21, 2017

The Founder and General Overseer of Christ Mercyland Deliverance Ministry, in Warri, Delta State, Prophet Jeremiah Omoto Fufeyin, shocked his congregation when his prophecy took a different turn as he called out single men and women in his church and asked them to select their partners from among themselves. During the selection, long queues emerged […]

BUSINESS

Sterling Bank writes FG over $46.5 million due to state

Daily Dispatch July 21, 2017

Sterling Bank has written to the government’s accountant to say it has not withheld $46.5 million the government says it should hand over. A Nigerian court has ordered seven local banks, including Sterling Bank, to transfer a combined $793 million to the government immediately, and a government lawyer said on Thursday the lenders had withheld money […]