NEWS

Bill on whistle blowers protection passed by the Senate

Daily Dispatch July 19, 2017

The Whistle Blowers Protection Bill sponsored by Sen. Biodun Olujimi (PDP-Ekiti) was passed on Wednesday after a third reading passed by the Senate. Presenting report on the bill before its passage, Chairman, Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matter, Sen. David Umaru, said a

Politics

APC governors insists the party’s national convention will not hold until President Buhari returns

Daily Dispatch July 19, 2017

Governors on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), on Wednesday, said the party’s national convention must wait until the return of President Muhammadu Buhari. At the end of a closed-door meeting with the National Working Committee (NWC), led by Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, it was resolved that President Buhari, currently attending to his health […]

Sport

34 Years After, Reps Demand Compensation For Mexico 83 Flying Eagles

Daily Dispatch July 19, 2017

More than three decades after members of the Flying Eagles national team qualified Nigeria for her first ever FIFA organised tournament in Mexico in1983, the House of Representatives on Wednesday called on the Federal Government to redeem its promise of rewarding the team based on the feat. The resolution followed the consideration and adoption of […]

NEWS

Agitation For Restructuring, Result Of Weak Govt Institutions – Utomi

Daily Dispatch July 19, 2017

A renowned Economist, Prof. Patrick Utomi, has said that the current agitation for restructuring of the country was as a result of impunity and weak government institutions. Utomi made the remark on Wednesday in a lecture he delivered at the 2017 Law Week organised by the Nigerian Bar Association, Warri branch. The News Agency of […]

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Boko Haram: Rescue abducted women, Osinbajo orders security agencies

Daily Dispatch July 19, 2017

ACTING President Yemi Osinbajo has directed Nigeria’s military and intelligence agencies to take all necessary steps including coordinating with our international partners to rescue the abducted women, as well as to ensure further tightening of security in and around Borno State. The women, who  were abducted by the insurgents along Maiduguri- Damboa road last month, were

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FEC approves petroleum policy that will change Nigeria from an oil producing nation to a gas producing country

Daily Dispatch July 19, 2017

The Federal Executive Council has authorised the implementation of the Nigerian Petroleum Policy as government bids to end fuel importation by 2019. Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, told State House correspondents after the council’s regular meeting in Abuja on Wednesday that the essence of the new Nigerian Petroleum Policy approved by FEC was