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BREAKING NEWS… $43.4m Cash Haul: EFCC Operatives Storm NNPC Official, Nnamdi-Ogbue’s Abuja Residence

Daily Dispatch April 13, 2017

The operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Thursday afternoon stormed the Abuja residence of the former the former Managing Director of the Petroleum Products Marketing Company (PPMC) and later Managing Director of NNPC Retail, Mrs. Esther Nnamdi-Ogbue who was retired

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Boko Haram attacks military checkpoint, kills soldier

Daily Dispatch April 13, 2017

Boko Haram sects on Wednesday attacked military checkpoint outside the city of Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria, a military officer and vigilante told AFP. On Wednesday evening, two male suicide bombers detonated their explosives at a checkpoint in Dalori, a village on the outskirts of Maiduguri near a camp for internally displaced people, they said. At […]

TOP STORIES

Esther Ogbhue Denies Owing N15bn Recovered By EFCC From An Apartment In Ikoyi

Daily Dispatch April 13, 2017

The sacked Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation NNPC retail, Mrs. Esther Nnamdi-Ogbhue has denied owning the recovered N15billion nor own the apartment. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday uncovered yet another stash of foreign currencies and Naira notes in Lagos. At the end of counting, the sums stood at $43.4 million,

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Borussia Dortmund attack: Iraqi suspect ‘linked to IS’

Daily Dispatch April 13, 2017

German prosecutors say they have no evidence so far linking a man held over the bomb attack against the Borussia Dortmund team bus to the crime. But they have requested an arrest warrant to keep the 26-year-old Iraqi national in custody. The man, identified only as Abdul Beset A, is suspected of membership in an […]

FEATURES

The joy of a Christian-Muslim wedding among Egypt’s Nubians

Daily Dispatch April 13, 2017

The attacks this week on Coptic churches in northern Egypt underline the dangers faced by the country’s Christian minority. But among the Nubians – an ancient nation that lives along the upper reaches of the Nile – Muslims and Christians mostly live in harmony. Nicola Kelly attended a Muslim-Christian wedding, celebrated discreetly after nightfall, in

HEALTH

Mirinda, Lucozade Unsafe For Nigerian Consumers

Daily Dispatch April 13, 2017

​T​he Consumer Protection Council (CPC) ​has declared Mirinda and Lucozade soft drinks unsafe for Nigerian consumers. The council said both beverages contained benzoic acid level above the limit approved by the Nigerian Industrial Standard (NIS). The Council said in a statement yesterday in Abuja that while the NIS limit for benzoic acid is 250mg/Kg, when […]