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Remove Magu or else we’ll not screen INEC Commissioners-Senate Tells Buhari

Daily Dispatch March 28, 2017

The Senate on Tuesday put on hold the screening of the 27 Commissioners proposed for the Independent National Electoral Commission by President Muhammadu Buhari. The Senate took the action on Tuesday. It demanded the removal of the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes

NEWS

2017 Budget: Dogara Gives Committees Friday Deadline To Submit Reports

Daily Dispatch March 28, 2017

The Speaker House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara, on Tuesday, gave a Friday deadline to committees yet to submit the report of 2017 budget to the Committee on Appropriation to do so. Dogara gave the deadline at plenary and said that there was the urgent need for the House to conclude work on the 2017 […]

NEWS

For Stealing N170 Man Sentenced To 2 Months Imprisonment

Daily Dispatch March 28, 2017

A Karmo Grade I Area Court in Abuja on Tuesday sentenced one Wisdom Gabriel, 22, to two-month imprisonment for stealing N170 at a chemist’s shop in old Karmo Market. The judge, Mr. Abubakar Sadiq, however, gave the convict N5,000 option of fine. The judge said the sentence would serve as a deterrent to others that may be […]

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Boko Haram Abducts 10 in Borno

Daily Dispatch March 28, 2017

Defence Corps in Borno, Mr Ibrahim Abdullahi, said suspected Boko Haram members had invaded Konduga Local Government Area and abducted four women and six youths. Abdullahi said in Maiduguri on Tuesday that the insurgents had also invaded Mittiri, Akalli and Arribbari villages in the same Konduga local government area. “Our intelligence report had indicated that […]

BUSINESS

Agriculture, solid minerals can pay Nigeria’s debt — Ogbeh

Daily Dispatch March 28, 2017

Chief Audu Ogbeh, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, says foreign exchange from agriculture and solid minerals could service the country’s debt and loan profile. Ogbeh made the assertion on the sideline of the National Agribusiness Youth Training Programme funded by the Federal Government and the African Development Bank (AfDB) in Abuja on Tuesday. […]

LEAD STORY 2

Letter demanding release of ex-Adamawa Governor, Ngilari on health grounds was forged – Prisons CG,

Daily Dispatch March 28, 2017

The Comptroller-General (CG) of the Nigeria Prisons Service (NPS), Ja’afaru Ahmed, has denied knowledge of a letter said to have emanated from his office; which demanded for the release of former governor of Adamawa state, Bala Ngilari, from prison custody on health grounds. Just yesterday, an Adamawa High Court presided by Justice Nathan Musa, ordered […]