NEWS

APC lauds release of 82 Chibok girls

Daily Dispatch May 7, 2017

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has hailed the release of additional 82 Chibok girls who were abducted in 2014, saying it received the news of Saturday’s release of the kidnapped with great joy . The party, in a statement issued and signed on Sunday by its National Publicity Secretary,

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Chibok girls: Red Cross reveals role in release of Boko Haram captives

Daily Dispatch May 7, 2017

International Committee of the Red Cross (@ICRC) in Africa has revealed the role it played in the release of 82 Chibok schoolgirls from Boko Haram captivity. The agency, on Sunday, said on it acted as an intermediary between Boko Haram and the Nigerian government. Red Cross added that its vehicles were used to transport the […]

FEATURES

Nigeria battles to beat polio and Boko Haram

Daily Dispatch May 7, 2017

The man sporting a giant purple bottom adorned with a swinging horse tail is chanting to the beat of the drummers, his blue-painted face sweating copiously. Children delightedly race around the colourful clown. All except Ismail, 13, who watches from the ground, twisting his head to follow the dance. A man with a megaphone is […]

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SGF: Replace Babachir with Tony Momoh or Galadima, defunct CPC members tells Buhari

Daily Dispatch May 7, 2017

A forum of the defunct Congress for Progressives Change (CPC) members in the seventeen Southern state, on the platform of Southern Mandate has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to either consider their former national chairman Chief Tony Momoh or Eng. Buba Galadima as the next Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) in the […]

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FG frees Boko Haram detainees for Chibok girls

Daily Dispatch May 7, 2017

Nigeria’s Presidency on Saturday confirmed the release of the 82 Chibok schoolgirls after three years in  captivity and also revealed how their  freedom was negotiated. Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, said the girls were released by their captors in exchange for some Boko Haram suspects held by the […]

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VETERAN MOVIE ACTOR ‘PASTOR AJIDARA’ DIED OF KIDNEY FAILURE

Daily Dispatch May 7, 2017

A veteran Nollywood actor and founding leader of ‎Thearter Art and Movie Producers Association of Nigeria,(TAMPAN),Prince Samuel Adesanya popularly called Pastor Ajidara  has died of of kidney failure. The wife, Atinuke Adesanya who confirmed this to our correspondent said,the famous movie artise died in the early hours of Sunday at Mercy Hospital,Onikolobo,Abeokuta where