NEWS

Tinubu’s comment on Buhari’s ill-health is deceptive – Group

Daily Dispatch May 9, 2017

A political movement, National Forum of Democrats (NFD), has described as insincere, comments by the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, over the health challenges of President Muhammadu Buhari saying the words were meant to please the President

NEWS

No scarcity of Passport Booklets -Immigration Service

Daily Dispatch May 8, 2017

The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) on Monday denied that there has been scarcity of Passport Booklets across all Passport Issuing Centres in the country. The Service spokesman, Sunday James in a statement on behalf of the Comptroller General of Immigration Service, Muhammad Babandede claimed that there were Passport Booklets across all the Service’s issuing centres […]

NEWS

Gunmen kill 15 in Benue

Daily Dispatch May 8, 2017

Gunmen have killed at least, 15 people in three villages of Logo local government areas of Benue State. Daily Trust gathered that the gunmen suspected to be herders on Sunday and Monday afternoon invaded the rural localities of Tse Akaa, Mba’abaji and Tse Orlalu all in Ugondo Mbanar District of Logo. The State Commissioner of […]

LEAD STORY 1

China Donates $5m To Provide Food For IDPs In Northeast

Daily Dispatch May 8, 2017

The Chinese Government has committed $5m to boost the humanitarian support of World Food Programme to Internally Displaced Persons in the northeastern part of Nigeria. The Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, Zhou Pingjian, made this known on Monday during the presentation of 4.3 metric tonnes of rice to WFP in Maiduguri. Pingjian said that the support […]

BUSINESS

CBN pumps $81.2m for BTA, PTA, tuition fees, SMEs segments

Daily Dispatch May 8, 2017

Following last Friday’s injection of $389 million into the retail segment of the forex market, the Central Bank of Nigeria on Monday intervened with $81.2 million in the invisibles and Small and Medium Enterprises segments. A breakdown of the interventions indicated that the Bank provided $44 million to meet customers’ requests for invisibles such as […]

NEWS

Sokoto State Attorney General Has No Right To Take over EFCC’s Case

Daily Dispatch May 8, 2017

Barely a week after a controversial ruling by Justice Idrissa Kolo of the Federal High Court sitting in Sokoto which authorised the Attorney General, AG, of Sokoto State to take over the prosecution of the case of Mohammed Bello, a serving Commissioner in the state and former Permanent Secretary of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs […]