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JUST IN: America warns citizens about Nigeria, says Boko Haram ‘planning to kidnap westerners’

Daily Dispatch May 6, 2017

Foreign Office has warned westerners travelling to Nigeria to be careful as the Islamic terrorists, Boko Haram is “actively planning to kidnap” westerners to raise ransom money for their fight. The foreign office, according The Telegraph, says the sect is planning to kidnap foreign workers in

ENTERTAINMENT

VETERAN MOVIE ACTOR,’PASTOR AJIDARA’ DOWN WITH KIDNEY AILMENT, NEEDS N12MILLION FOR TRANSPLANT

Daily Dispatch May 6, 2017

A veteran movie actor and founding leader of ‎Thearter Art and Movie Producers Association of Nigeria,(TAMPAN),Samuel Adesanya popularly called Pastor Ajidara  is down with kidney ailment. The family said the household name artise who is a retiree of Ogun State Judiciary is in urgent need of N12million for a transplant operation,but ironically,the government is owing […]

LEAD STORY 1

Nigerian officials jailed for selling food aid

Daily Dispatch May 6, 2017

Two Nigerian officials have been jailed for selling food aid meant for people fleeing militant attacks and food shortages in the country’s north-east. The two sold 180 bags of rice donated by an international aid agency, the court in Maiduguri, Borno State, heard. They were jailed for two years and fined 1m naira ($3,200; £2,500) […]

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Tanzania school bus crash kills dozens

Daily Dispatch May 6, 2017

More than 30 people – almost all of them schoolchildren – have been killed in a bus crash in northern Tanzania, officials say. They say the bus plunged off the road in a steep ravine near the town of Karatu. A number of people were hurt. Officials later tried to remove survivors and dead bodies […]

EDUCATION

UTME: JAMB urges candidates to crosscheck data before midnight on Saturday

Daily Dispatch May 6, 2017

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has urged prospective candidates for its Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) to crosscheck the data on their registration forms for the last time on May 6. The board’s Head of Media and Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin, made the call in an interview with the News Agency if Nigeria […]

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Soyinka urges EFCC to prosecute detractors on fight against corruption

Daily Dispatch May 6, 2017

Nigeria’s Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, on Saturday in Lagos, called for the prosecution of those he described as detractors in the fight against corruption in the country. Prof. Soyinka made the call at the opening of his Vision of the Child Art Exhibition, 2017 edition, at Freedom Park, Lagos with the theme: Enhance the Heritage; […]