FEATURES

On Boko Haram front line, Nigerian vigilantes amass victories and power

Daily Dispatch June 15, 2017

His broken arm is in a bamboo splint, his torso pock-marked with shrapnel and his jaw wired together by a Nigerian army surgeon. But 38-year-old vigilante Dala Aisami Angwalla is undaunted by two nearly fatal brushes in the last year with Boko Haram, one involving a landmine, the other an

Sport

Serena Williams’ 75-yrs-old father moves to divorce wife over theft

Daily Dispatch June 15, 2017

Richard Williams, a tennis coach and father of female tennis sensations – Venus and Serena – has filed for divorce from his wife, Lakeisha Williams. The 75-year-old is accusing Lakeisha of stealing his social security checks and forging his signature to transfer property, which include cars and a house, to her name in court documents […]

BUSINESS

Oil hits six-week low as OPEC fails to curb oversupply

Daily Dispatch June 15, 2017

Oil prices dropped to six-week lows on Thursday, under pressure from high global inventories and doubts about OPEC’s ability to implement agreed production cuts. Brent crude oil fell 30 cents to $46.70 a barrel, its weakest since May 5 and just above six-month lows, before recovering a little ground to trade around $46.80 by 0755 […]

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Islamic State say they have captured Afghanistan’s Tora Bora caves

Daily Dispatch June 15, 2017

Pressed by Afghan and U.S. forces, Islamic State militants have seized a new stronghold in Tora Bora, a mountainous area dotted with caves along Afghanistan’s border with Pakistan, officials said on Thursday. The remote region in Nangarhar province was most famously used by al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in late 2001, in a bid […]

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

19 killed in hotel attack says police

Daily Dispatch June 15, 2017

Police said that 19 people were killed when Islamist attackers launched a car bomb and gun attack on a busy hotel and adjacent restaurant in the Somali capital. POlice officer Abdi Bashir told Reuters that a car driven by a suicide bomber rammed into the Posh Hotel in south Mogadishu on Wednesday evening before gunmen […]

Uncategorized

Trump-Russia inquiry: President ‘probed for obstruction of justice’

Daily Dispatch June 15, 2017

President Donald Trump is being investigated by special counsel Robert Mueller for possible obstruction of justice, US media reports say. They say senior intelligence officials will be interviewed on whether Mr Trump tried to end an inquiry into his sacked national security adviser, and about the firing of FBI chief James Comey. Mr Trump’s legal […]