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Ile-Ife, Benue Crisis: IGP Meets Buhari

Daily Dispatch March 24, 2017

The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris on Friday briefed President Muhammadu Buhari on security crises in the country. This included the Zaki Biam crisis in Benue State and Ile-Ife crisis in Osun State which resulted in the death of many Nigerians. Speaking with State House

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

President Sacks Information Minister

Daily Dispatch March 24, 2017

The President of Tanzania, John Magufuli has fired his Information Minister, Culture, Arts and Sports, Nape Nnauye. Magufuli sacked Nnauye just days after the Minister ordered a probe into an alleged raid on a private television station by a senior government official on March 17. The President, who immediately replaced Nnauye with Harrison Mwakyembe has […]

NEWS

For Cheating On Her Husband, House Wife Infected With HIV/AIDS

Daily Dispatch March 24, 2017

Nemesis caught up with a married woman simply identified as Oluchi, who is now battling to safe her life after been infected with HIV/AIDS by her man friend. Oluchi who has been married to her husband over five years, was said to be having amorous with her office mate under the pretense of paying her […]

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Hosni Mubarak: Egypt’s former dictator freed after six years in custody

Daily Dispatch March 24, 2017

Egypt’s former dictator Hosni Mubarak has left the Cairo military hospital where he had been held in custody for much of the past six years, and returned to his home in the Cairo suburb of Heliopolis, his lawyer said. Mubarak, 88, was acquitted by Egypt’s highest appeals court on 2 March of conspiring to kill […]

COLUMNS

Understanding Buhari, by Azu Ishiekwene

Daily Dispatch March 24, 2017

Creative dysfunction is sometimes an unofficial government tool. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo occasionally set top government officials up against themselves to test their loyalty or ideas. But there was no doubt who was in charge. US President, Donald Trump, is reputed to have the worst cabinet in modern US history, comparable in its dysfunctionality only […]

BUSINESS

Nigeria’s Economic Structure Obstructs Development – Ogunseye

Daily Dispatch March 24, 2017

A Development Expert Bolaji Ogunseye, has said that the way Nigeria is structured will not bring economic development or get the country out of recession. He noted that there is no synergy between the Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Speaking as a guest on Channels Television’s breakfast programme, Sunrise Daily, […]