NEWS

Police arrest two with explosives in Nasarawa

Daily Dispatch June 9, 2017

The Nasarawa State Police Command on Friday announced the arrest of two men with suspected Improvised Explosive Device. The command’s Public Relations Officer, Kennedy Idirisu, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lafia that the men were arrested in Loko Local Government Area of the state. He

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Another 19-year-old lady escapes from Sambisa Forest

Daily Dispatch June 9, 2017

The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps in Adamawa State says it has rescued Mumina Hamidu, a 19-year-old lady who escaped from Boko Haram insurgents in Sambisa Forest. Briefing newsmen on the development Friday in Yola, the state Commandant of NSCDC, Aliyu Ndanusa, said Mumina was rescued with her eight-month-old baby on Thursday. Ndanusa said […]

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Eviction Threat: You do not have the mandate to speak for the North-Southern Kaduna Peoples Union tells Northern Youths

Daily Dispatch June 9, 2017

The Southern Kaduna Peoples Union (SOKAPU) says the coalition of northern youth who ordered Igbo to leave the north do not have the mandate to speak for the entire region. In a statement in Kaduna on Friday, SOKAPU said the position of the coalition should not be taken as that of the entire north. Yakubu […]

NEWS

Money from North was used to develop Igbo, Yoruba lands – Ango Abdullahi

Daily Dispatch June 9, 2017

The spokesperson of the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, Ango Abdullahi has alleged that resources from the North was used to develop other regions of Nigeria. Abdullahi made the claim while berating people of the South for saying people of the North were cheating them in the area of resource control. Speaking in Zaria on Friday, […]

ENTERTAINMENT

Tuface pledges to donate proceeds to UNHCR for IDPs, refugees

Daily Dispatch June 9, 2017

Music icon, Innocent Idibia, popularly known as Tuface, has pledged to donate the proceeds from his song to the UN High Commission for Refugees, Nigeria to assist Internally Displaced Persons. Tuface, who is the Chairman of the Tuface Foundation, made the pledge on Thursday when he visited the UNHCR office in Abuja. He said that […]

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PHOTOS: EFCC seals alleged Patience Jonathan”s multi-billion naira property

Daily Dispatch June 9, 2017

The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) today sealed a multi-billion naira property allegedly belonging to a former first lady of Nigeria, Patience Jonathan. The property located in Abuja around Mabushi area was marked “keep off” “under Investigation” and so on.