LEAD STORY 1

Breaking: Buhari seeks another $500m Eurobond to finance 2016 capital projects

Daily Dispatch March 15, 2017

President Muhammadu Buhari has written to the National Assembly seeking for another $500 million Eurobond to finance capital projects in the 2016 Budget. This was revealed on Wednesday during the Senate plenary. The Senate had earlier in the year secretly approved a $1 billion Eurobond

NEWS

Emir of Ilorin Holds Special Prayer Session For Buhari

Daily Dispatch March 15, 2017

The Emir of Ilorin and Chairman, Kwara State Council of Chiefs and Obas, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu Gambari, will on Friday, March 17 organise a special prayer session in honour of President Muhammadu Buhari. The Emir announced this through a statement issued by the Magaji Nda, Alhaji Salihu Mohammed Woru, in Ilorin on Tuesday and made […]

NEWS

Customs Boss, Ali Bows To Senate, Suspends Duties on Old Vehicles

Daily Dispatch March 15, 2017

The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, has officially suspended the implementation of the new controversial motor import duty payment. The suspension was contained in a statement signed and released on Wednesday, by its acting spokesman, Joseph Attah. According to the statement, the decision to suspend the vehicle duty payment policy followed a meeting between the management of

Politics

PDP Crisis: End verbal war, its ridiculing our party – Women warns Sheriff, Makarfi

Daily Dispatch March 15, 2017

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) under the aegis of PDP Women Forum, has asked the party’s National Chairman, Ali Modu Sheriff and ousted Chairman of the party’s National Caretaker Committee, Ahmed Makarfi to stop the verbal war between them. Rising from a meeting yesterday in Abuja, the women said the verbal war between Sheriff and […]

NEWS

Ogun Assembly Condemns Alleged Incessant Killings By Customs

Daily Dispatch March 15, 2017

Omooba Risawe Ogun State House of Assembly on Tuesday condemned the incessant killing of innocent citizens of the State by men of the Nigerian Customs Service describing it as a dastardly act. The lawmakers in their various submissions during today’s plenary lamented the alleged killing of a commercial driver Saubana Koleoso, whose vehicle while being […]

NEWS

Breaking News: Many Killed As Four Female Teenage Suicide Bomber Hits Maiduguri

Daily Dispatch March 15, 2017

Several people were said to have lost their lives when four female teenage suicide bombers hit Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. Sources close to Maiduguri informed that the attack occurred at the Muna garage in Maiduguri, which was just recently attacked by the insurgents. The incident was confirmed by the spokesperson to the National Emergency […]