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Sheriff reveals why Goodluck Jonathan failed to release Chibok girls

Daily Dispatch May 9, 2017

The Ali Modu Sheriff faction of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has given their own reason why the Goodluck Jonathan’s administration failed to get a good deal for the release of the over 200 school girls abducted by Islamic insurgents, Boko Haram back in 2014. As against the statement

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Breaking: NASS Increase 2017 Budget by N143bn

Daily Dispatch May 9, 2017

The National Assembly has raised the 2017 budget by over N143bn, up from President Muhammadu Buhari’s original proposal of N7.298tn. The new figure is now N7.441tn.  Details later…

Politics

BREAKING: Cross River senator, Enoh, decamps from PDP to APC amid protest

Daily Dispatch May 9, 2017

Senator from Cross River Central, John Enoh, on Tuesday announced his defection from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the All Progressives Congress, APC. Speaking on the floor of the senate, Enoh, who is the Chairman of the senate committee on finance, disclosed that he had registered as a member of the APC in his […]

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BREAKING: Senate reads President Buhari’s letter saying his vacation period is indefinite

Daily Dispatch May 9, 2017

The Nigerian Senate has read a letter from President Muhammadu Buhari on his travel to the United Kingdom for medical check-up. The letter read was read by Senate president Bukola Saraki during plenary on Tuesday, May 9. In the letter, the President said he had no definite date for his return as his doctors would […]

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Why Some Abducted Chibok School Girls Refuse Freedom-Negoatiator

Daily Dispatch May 9, 2017

Some of the Chibok schoolgirls abducted three years ago by the extremist Boko Haram sect refused to be part of a group of 82 girls freed at the weekend, a mediator involved in the release said on Monday. The militants on Saturday released 82 schoolgirls out of the more than 200 they kidnapped in April […]

BUSINESS

FIRS steps up enforcement, shuts tax-owing companies in Lagos, Abuja, Imo

Daily Dispatch May 9, 2017

In continuation of its enforcement initiative, the Federal Inland Revenue Service on Monday sealed premises of tax-owing companies in Lagos, Abuja and Orlu, Imo State. In Lagos, the FIRS team, led by Anita Erinne, sealed Autobahn Techniques Limited at 348, Ikorodu Road over an aggregate tax debt of N76.7 million. Also sealed were Winelight Analytical […]