BUSINESS

Nigeria Inches Closer To 40 Billion Barrels Oil Reserve Target

Daily Dispatch June 29, 2017

Efforts by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation to grow the nation’s crude oil reserves to 40 billion barrels by the year 2020, received a major boost on Thursday with the execution of a tripartite agreement in Abuja. The agreement was between the NNPC/FIRST Exploration & Production

NEWS

Sexual harassment: Every Nigerian family has a victim – Senate

Daily Dispatch June 29, 2017

The senate has said that there was no family in Nigeria that does not have a victim of sexual harassment by male lectures in Tertiary Institutions. Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, the sponsor of the bill that criminalised lecturer-student relationships in Tertiary Institution disclosed this in Abuja on Tuesday. The interview was made public by Bamikole Omishore, […]

BUSINESS

Nigeria can generate $10bn from honey, hives – USAID official

Daily Dispatch June 29, 2017

Mr David Musa, the Team Leader, USAID Bee Keeping Pollination Project, says Nigeria can generate over 10 billion dollars from local and international trade in honey and other hive products. Musa disclosed this during an interview on the sideline of a Capacity Building Workshop for bee-farmers in Goshen, Nasarawa State on Thursday. ‘‘Honey trade can […]

LEAD STORY 1

Evans, files fresh suit against police, seeks N300m in damages

Daily Dispatch June 29, 2017

Suspected billionaire kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike aka Evans, has again dragged the Inspector General of Police, and three others before a Federal High Court in Lagos over his alleged illegal detention. In the new suit filed on Thursday, Evans is claiming N300m as general and exemplary damages against the police for alleged illegal detention and unconstitutional

LEAD STORY 2

UK Deports 28 Nigerians

Daily Dispatch June 29, 2017

The Government of the United Kingdom on Thursday deported 28 Nigerians for committing immigration-related offences in the country. The Nigerians were sent back home barely 48 hours after 23 Nigerians were deported from Spain and five days after another batch of 34 were jointly deported by the governments of Switzerland, Germany, Iceland, Austria, Belgium and […]

NEWS

Four feared killed in Kwara communal clash

Daily Dispatch June 29, 2017

Four people, including a graduate, were feared dead on Thursday following a crisis that erupted between neighbouring Ilofa and Odo-Owa communities in Oke-Ero Local Government Area of Kwara State. Scores of other victims with gunshot injuries were said to have been rushed to the hospital for treatment as many houses were allegedly razed in the […]