LEAD STORY 1

Presidency yet to receive 2017 budget after 3 days of passage by NASS

Daily Dispatch May 14, 2017

Acting President Yemi Osinbajo is yet to receive the 2017 Appropriation Bill, 72 hours after it was passed by the National Assembly. The Presidency has confirmed it was still awaiting the passed budget from the legislature. Osinbajo’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mr Laolu

EDUCATION

UTME: Hitch-free examination in most North East states

Daily Dispatch May 13, 2017

The Computer-Based Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination was conducted without hitches by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board in all the states of the North East, with the exception of Borno State, where delays were experienced at the University of Maiduguri centres following multiple bomb blasts. The News Agency of Nigeria Correspondents who visited the

BUSINESS

Reps directs NNPC to disclose cost of imported petrol

Daily Dispatch May 13, 2017

The House of Representatives Ad hoc Committee on Review of Pump Price of Petrol has directed the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation NNPC and its subsidiaries to make public the true cost of imported petrol. The Chairman of the Committee, Rep. Raphael Igbokwe, gave the directive in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) […]

LEAD STORY 1

EFCC didn’t freeze NGF account-Barkindo

Daily Dispatch May 13, 2017

The Nigerian Governors Forum has denied media reports that its accounts have been frozen by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The Director of Media of the NGF, Abdulrazak Barkindo, who denied the reports in a telephone conversation on Saturday said that an earlier decision of the court to stop usage of the NGF’s account […]

NEWS

Police connived with kidnappers, abduct housewife, demand N40m ransom – Keyamo

Daily Dispatch May 13, 2017

A Lagos-based legal practitioner, Festus Keyamo, has accused the Delta State Police Command of conniving with kidnappers and attempting to cover up their crime. Keyamo, who urged the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to carry out a thorough investigation into the kidnap of a housewife, believes the N5 million ransom paid by his client, […]

NEWS

Police storm kidnappers’ den, rescue white man, recover 5000 ammunition, 60 magazines

Daily Dispatch May 13, 2017

Gunfire rocked the Igando area of Lagos State on Friday as teams of policemen from Anti-Kidnapping Squad and Special Anti-Robbery Squad stormed a kidnappers’ hideout to rescue a white man. The operation was led by the officer in charge of Anti-Kidnapping Squad, a Chief Superintendent of Police, Akinade Adejobi, and the Second-in-Command of SARS, a […]