NEWS

HOW I ESCAPE FETISH ATTACK WHILE WORKING TOWARDS REALISATION OF JOURNALISTS ESTATE, FUNKE FADUGBA

Daily Dispatch July 10, 2017

A two time Chairman of Lagos Council of‎ Nigeria Union of Journalists,(NUJ)Deaconess Funke Fadugba on Sunday  narrated how she almost got harmed by spiritual attack while working the reaisation  of Journalists Estate located in Arepo along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. She made the revelation at a

HEALTH

HIV/AIDS: 1m Nigerians may die by 2022 – DG NACA

Daily Dispatch July 10, 2017

Dr. Sani Aliyu, the Director-General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS, has said Nigeria must take full sponsorship of its HIV/AIDS programme or risk losing one million of its citizens currently living with the disease before 2022. Aliyu stated this while fielding questions from State House correspondents in Abuja on Sunday. He […]

TOP STORIES

Fresh Boko Haram’s attacks worrisome – Ndume

Daily Dispatch July 10, 2017

Sen. Ali Ndume (APC/Borno South) has expressed deep concern over fresh attacks by Boko Haram in Borno, and described the situation as “worrisome”. Ndume, currently serving a six-month suspension, told journalists in Maiduguri on Sunday that he would have invited security chiefs to explain what was happening, if he was in the Senate Chambers. “In […]

NEWS

North-East rebuilding a difficult task, says PCNI

Daily Dispatch July 9, 2017

Alhaji Tijjani Tumsah, Vice Chairman, Presidential Committee on the North-East Initiative (PCNI), says it may take a minimum of ten years before appreciable progress can be made in rebuilding the North-East following Boko Haram attacks. Tumsah made this known at a Forum with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja. He said […]

NEWS

Social injustice causing hatred, crimes, terrorism in Nigeria – Canadian criminologist

Daily Dispatch July 9, 2017

The Carnegie African Diaspora Fellow in the Department of Sociology, University of Ibadan stated this in a public lecture entitled, “Alienation as A Harbinger of Criminal Resistance” delivered at the Faculty of the Social sciences of the premier university. To reduce the spate of criminal resistance, Oriola asked the federal government to provide safety nets […]

LEAD STORY 2

Maitama’s Death, Great Loss To Nigeria – Gen. Abdulsalam

Daily Dispatch July 9, 2017

Former Head of State Gen. Abdulsalam Abubakar on Sunday, described the death of late Maitama Sule as touching. Abubakar, who said this in Kano when he paid condolence visit to Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje, stressed that the elder statesman’s death was a great loss to Kano and Nigeria as a whole. ‎ He said that the […]