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State Governors reveal when they will pay salaries

Daily Dispatch June 2, 2017

Nigerian governors, on Friday said they will off-set outstanding salaries and allowances owed their workers as soon as a second tranche of funds from the Paris Club loan refund is released.   The governors under the aegis of Nigeria Governors Forum, made the remark in a statement issued by

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Police Command in Kano warns against provocative preaching

Daily Dispatch June 2, 2017

Islamic Scholars and other people delivering sermons, lectures or preaching have been warned against the use of provocative and inciting language during the ongoing Ramadan period and beyond. This is contained in a statement signed by the Kano State Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Magaji Majiya, which was issued to newsmen on Friday in […]

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Osinbajo signs executive orders to fast-track business operations-Presidency

Daily Dispatch June 2, 2017

The Presidency has given reasons why Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo signed three executive ordrs, saying it was in a bid to ease business operations, fast-track budget submission and promote made in Nigeria products. A statement by Osinbajo’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, disclosed that the signing of the order will also “significantly

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UK govt to charge Nigerians, others for visa email enquiries

Daily Dispatch June 2, 2017

The British High Commission has announced that email enquiries by visa customers applying from outside the UK would attract a fee as from June 1. The high commission made this known in a brief report on changes to UK Visas & Immigration customer care operations made available by the Media Officer, Joseph Abuku, in Abuja […]

HEALTH

Hajj 2017: FG to deploy surveillance medical officers- Adewole

Daily Dispatch June 2, 2017

Federal Government has approved the deployment of surveillance officers as part of the medical mission to the 2017 Hajj pilgrimage. Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole made the disclosure during a meeting​ with officials of​ National Hajj Commission of Nigeria​, NAHCON.​ ​He explained that the deployment was aimed at detecting and controlling any disease among the

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Six dead, 30 injured as Boko Haram bombs IDP camps

Daily Dispatch June 2, 2017

About six persons have been killed and 30 others injured following a Boko Haram bomb attack on a camp housing displaced persons in northern Cameroon. The twin blasts which tore through the camp in the town of Kolofata, occurred about 6am after two bombers sneaked into the camp and detonated their bombs killing themselves, the […]