TECHNOLOGY

UNILAG Students Have Built First ‘Electric Car’ in Africa

Daily Dispatch March 8, 2017

A group of Nigerian students came together to create Africa’s first electric car from scratch, using locally sourced materials. The project began was said to have commenced in 2014 and by 2015 the students had built a zero emission electric powered prototype vehicle called the ‘DOVE P1’.

BUSINESS

N541bn Unpaid Debt: Three Banks Sets To Take Over Etisalat

Daily Dispatch March 8, 2017

Three Nigerian banks are set to take over telecommunications firm, Etisalt today over unpaind N541billion debt. Premium Times reported that the move follows the failure of the Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) to broker a peaceful resolution between Etisalat Nigeria and a consortium of banks. The banks involved are: Guaranty Trust Bank, Access Bank and Zenith Bank

COLUMNS

ONUKABA, WHY DID THE ROAD TURN?

Daily Dispatch March 8, 2017

I lost a friend the other day. And I guess we all, the literary and media community in particular, lost a priceless jewel in Onukaba’s death. In events like this, I am always quickened to deconstruct my mind’s obsession with a line or two of a dirge. And that would unbundle my heart. But in […]

Politics

PDP crisis: Makarfi’s Faction Reportedly Bows To Sheriff’s Leadership

Daily Dispatch March 8, 2017

The Senator Ahmed Makarfi-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has accepted that the National Chairman of the Party, Senator Ali-Modu Sheriff should go ahead and conduct the national convention. The reconciliation committee of the party led by Bayelsa Governor, Seriake Dickson, on Tuesday, submitted its report to Sheriff at the national secretariat of the

NEWS

Lagos NUJ Holds Tribute Nite for Adinoyi-Ojo, Two Others

Daily Dispatch March 8, 2017

The Nigeria Union of Journalists, Lagos State Council is to hold a Tribute Nite for three of its members that died in the last two weeks. The late members, according to Assistant Secretary of the NUJ in Lagos State, Alfred Odifa, in a statement, are Onukaba Adinoyi-Ojo, formerly of The Guardian chapel and ex-Managing Director […]

BUSINESS

Forex: CBN Pumps Additional $100m Into Market

Daily Dispatch March 7, 2017

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Tuesday injected another sum of 100 million dollars into the inter-bank foreign exchange market, its acting Director, Corporate Communications, Isaac Okorafor has said. Okorafor said the measure became necessary as part of the initiatives to make Forex easily accessible, thereby crashing demand at the black market. The director made