HEALTH

WHO deploys 190 personnel to fight meningitis in Sokoto

Daily Dispatch May 4, 2017

The World Health Organisation said it had deployed 190 Polio Eradication Initiative officers to Sokoto State to support the government’s fight against Cerebro Spinal Meningitis. WHO Country Representative to Nigeria, Dr. Wondimagegnehu Alemu, said this in Abuja on Thursday. Alemu said PEI

BUSINESS

Nigeria imports N567bn worth of petrol in first quarter of 2016-NBS

Daily Dispatch May 4, 2017

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Nigeria imported 4.05 billion litres of Premium Motor Sprit (PMS) popularly known as petrol valued at N566.96 billion in first quarter of 2017. The NBS gave the figure in “Petroleum Products Import Statistics for Ist quarter 2017’’ released by the bureau on Thursday in Abuja. The bureau stated […]

TOP STORIES

Next Ebola Outbreak ‘inevitable’ WHO

Daily Dispatch May 4, 2017

A new outbreak of the Ebola virus is “inevitable” but a new vaccine and rapid-response measures mean it will be more effectively contained, the head of the World Health Organization said Thursday. The Ebola crisis that began in December 2013 killed 11,300 people in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia and has left thousands more survivors […]

TOP STORIES

RCCG’s Assistant GO dies nine months into tenure

Daily Dispatch May 4, 2017

The Redeemed Christian Church of God has announced the death of the Assistant General Overseer and Pastor-in-charge of RCCG, West African coast, Pastor Olu Obanure. Obanure became the Assistant General Overseer in charge of Establishment following his investiture at the 64th Annual Convention of the church last August. According to a statement announcing Obanure’s demise

Politics

Supreme Court fixes date to entertain PDP’s appeal

Daily Dispatch May 4, 2017

The Supreme Court on Thursday fixed May 25 to hear the application for the withdrawal of an appeal filed against the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff. Senator Ahmed Makarfi, the Chairman of the National Caretaker Committee of the PDP, had approached the apex court to challenge the affirmation of […]

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Former U.S. president Obama endorses Macron in French campaign

Daily Dispatch May 4, 2017

Former U.S. President Barack Obama endorsed centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron for France’s presidential election to be held on Sunday. Obama in a video message, praised Macron for appealing “to people’s hopes and not their fears”. “The French election is very important to the future of France and the values that we care so much about,” […]