INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Earthquake In Southern Philippines Kills Four, Damages Infrastructure

Daily Dispatch February 11, 2017

Four people died and more than 100 were injured after a powerful earthquake struck the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines late Friday, damaging some structures and cutting power in many areas, local officials said. The 6.7 earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km and the epicenter

Sport

17 Angola Football Fans Killed In Stampede

Daily Dispatch February 11, 2017

Seventeen football fans have been reportedly killed in a stampede at a football stadium in the northern Angolan city of Uige on Friday, February 10, 2017. The tragic incident occurred in the duel between Santa Rita de Cassia and Recreativo de Libolo in Angola’s domestic League football. According to police official Orlando Bernardo who witnessed […]

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$20bn NNPC fraud: EFCC Discovers Diezani’s $37.5m Lagos Mansion

Daily Dispatch February 11, 2017

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has discovered a $37.5m (N11.75bn) luxury high-rise building on Banana Island, Ikoyi, Lagos, allegedly belonging to the embattled former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke. This is just as the EFCC revealed on Friday that it discovered $9.3m and £74,000 belonging to a former Group Managing Director, Nigerian

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Osinbajo Regrets Oil Has Become A Curse To Niger-Delta Region

Daily Dispatch February 10, 2017

The Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo on Friday regretted that oil has become a curse or burden to communities in the oil-rich Niger Delta region. He said this was despite that over 50% of the nation’s non-oil revenues was determined by oil. Osinbajo said this at a town hall meeting he had with stakeholders in Yenagoa, […]

Politics

Edo Election Tribunal: PDP Closes Case

Daily Dispatch February 10, 2017

The Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) and Osagie Ize-Iyamu, its candidate in the Sept. 28, 2016 governorship election, on Friday closed their case before the Justice Ahmed Badamasi-led three-member election petition tribunal in Benin. The petitioners are challenging the declaration by the Independent National Election Commission(INEC) of Mr Godwin Obaseki as winner of the

BUSINESS

Nigeria Loses $80b Annually To Oil Installation Vandalism-Kachikwu

Daily Dispatch February 10, 2017

Minister of State for Petroleum, Mr. Ibe Kachikwu, says Nigeria is losing at least $80bn annually to vandalism of oil facilities in the Niger Delta. Kachikwu made this known on Friday in Yenagoa at the resumed dialogue with Niger Delta stakeholders as part of the visit of Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, to Bayelsa. He […]