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Nigeria loses to N30 trillion to cabal at ports – Senate

Daily Dispatch July 21, 2017

Nigeria recently lost N30 trillion to a cabal at its ports, documents available to the country’s Senate have shown. The Nation reports that chairman of the Senate joint committee on Customs and Marine transport investigative panel, Senator Hope Uzodinma, as making the disclosure on Thursday,

HEALTH Uncategorized

Mosquito: Scientists releasing 20m to shrink disease carrying mosquitoes

Daily Dispatch July 21, 2017

This summer, scientists in California are releasing 20 million mosquitoes in an effort to shrink the population of mosquitoes that can carry diseases. It sounds counter-intuitive. But the plan is to release millions of sterile male mosquitoes, which will then mate with wild female mosquitoes. The eggs the females lay won’t hatch, researchers say. The […]

NEWS

Adoke files UN human rights complaint against FG, EFCC

Daily Dispatch July 21, 2017

Mohammed Adoke, a former attorney-general of the federation, has filed a human rights complaint against the federal government at the United Nations Human Rights Committee. He also named the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in the complaint, accusing the agency “of unmitigated acts of persecution, intimidation, harassment, threat of deprivation right to

Politics

Restructuring: Don’t anger Nigerians, Timi Frank warns APC …Demands removal of El-rufai as restructuring panel chairman

Daily Dispatch July 21, 2017

Restructuring: Don’t anger Nigerians, Timi Frank warns APC …Demands removal of El-rufai as restructuring panel chairman Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Comrade Timi Frank, has warned his party leadership not to embark on a project that will anger Nigerians or playing with the sensibility of most citizens who

NEWS

UN rallies more support for Nigerian women

Daily Dispatch July 21, 2017

UN has urged international community to scale up support for women and girls for  Nigeria to  realise it’s target on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). UN Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed made the call on Thursday in Abuja  at a briefing on the findings of the UN mission on issues affecting women in Nigeria Mohammed urged […]

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Use of pre-registered SIM cards poses a severe threat to national security-IGP

Daily Dispatch July 21, 2017

The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Ibrahim Idris on Thursday stated that the use of pre-registered subscriber identification module, SIM, cards is a severe threat to national security and governance. He spoke at a one-day sensitisation workshop for law enforcement agencies in the northeast zone on telecommunications issues organised by the Nigerian Communications