HEALTH

Meningitis: Relief as UNICEF donates 850,000 vaccines, N17m to Sokoto state

Daily Dispatch April 26, 2017

The United Nations Children Fund [UNICEF] has donated 850,000 doses of vaccines to Sokoto State government to tackle Cerebrospinal Meningitis in the state. Mohammad Mohiuddin, UNICEF chief, Sokoto Zonal Office, made the disclosure on Wednesday in Sokoto at a sensitisation meeting for media

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Breaking: Again court orders interim forfeiture of Patience Jonathan’s $5.8m

Daily Dispatch April 26, 2017

Justice Mojisola Olatoregun of a Federal High Court, Lagos on Wednesday granted a fresh ex parte application ordering the forfeiture of $5.8 million belonging to a former First Lady, Patience Jonathan. The fresh forfeiture order is coming a day after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission withdrew an application challenging a court order unfreezing the […]

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Buhari seeks N/Assembly approval to take $6.9b loan

Daily Dispatch April 26, 2017

President Muhammadu Buhari has requested for the approval of the National Assembly to borrow $6.9b for infrastructural development. Buhari in a letter read by the Senate President, Bukola Saraki said $5.8bn would be borrowed from the Chinese Exim bank for the repair of the railway transport sector. The $1.1b loan would be taken from the […]

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Buhari will work from home, asks officials to bring files

Daily Dispatch April 26, 2017

The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed on Wednesday said President Muhammadu Buhari will now operate from his official residence. He made the disclosure while addressing State House Correspondents at the end of the meeting of the Federal Executive Council, FEC on at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Mohammed said the President needed some rest […]

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Updated:If Buhari dies, I will kill 200 people – Police officer …..police authority commence investigation

Daily Dispatch April 26, 2017

The police authority has commenced investigations into the threat by a police officer to kill two hundred (200) should President Buhari dies. The Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Moshood Jimoh, said the police headquarters was already aware of the post and has commenced investigation into the post. According to him, investigation had commenced with a […]

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To mark 500 days of El-Zakzaky’s detention, Shiites take to the streets of Abuja

Daily Dispatch April 26, 2017

Members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) on Wednesday, April 26, occupied the streets of Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city. The protesters led by the former social media director of the Peoples Democratic Party and convener of the Concerned Nigerians Deji Adeyanju protested the prolonged detention of leader Ibrahim El-Zakzaky. The supporters in their hundred […]