NEWS

Airforce personnel kills female colleague in Benue

Daily Dispatch March 12, 2017

An Airforce personnel, Aircraft Man (ACM), Kalu B.A who is serving with the Nigerian Airforce (NAF) base in Makurdi today shot his female colleague dead over suspicion that she was cheating on him. Daily Trust gathered that Kalu had pulled the trigger on his deceased girlfriend, Aircraft Woman,

Politics

APC will soon collapse – Makarfi

Daily Dispatch March 12, 2017

Former governor of Kaduna state and factional caretaker committee chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ahmed Makarfi, has predicted that the All Progressive Congress (APC) will soon plunge into crisis just like what the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are passing through. “Of course, we in the PDP are passing through our problems. Yes, […]

NEWS

Nigeria Has Over 68, 000 Prison Inmates- Prison Boss

Daily Dispatch March 12, 2017

The Nigerian Prison Service has disclosed that over 68,000 inmates are accommodated in the prison facilities throughout the country as at March 2017. The Controller General of Nigerian Prison Service, Jaafaru Ahmed, made the disclosure in an interview with the Economic Confidential. Ahmed said the agency has reopened prison farm centres towards self-sufficiency in food

NEWS

Alleged $229,000 fraud in Foreign Ministry: SERAP gives Onyeama 7 days to recall whistle-blower

Daily Dispatch March 12, 2017

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Geoffrey Onyeama, requesting him to use his “leadership position to ensure and facilitate the immediate and unconditional reinstatement of whistle-blower, Ntia Thompson. He was sacked for exposing an alleged $229,000 fraud in the Ministry of Foreign

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Ex-Governor fingered in Deziani’s $115m polls slush fund defects to APC

Daily Dispatch March 12, 2017

Alhaji Mamuda Shinkafi, a former Governor of Zamfara State, on Sunday defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress. Shinkafi became governor in 2007 on the platform of All Nigeria Peoples Party and defected to the Peoples Democratic Party in 2008. He however lost to the APC in 2011 and had since then remained in the […]

NEWS

I needs urgent medical attention, Andrew Yakubu tells EFCC

Daily Dispatch March 12, 2017

The detained former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Andrew Yakubu, has raised alarm over his continued detention by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) alleging that the commission has denied him access to medical attention. Yakubu is being detained by the EFCC following an alleged recovery of $9,772,800 and