NEWS

Group Gives President Buhari Two Weeks Ultimatum To Return To The Country

Daily Dispatch March 4, 2017

An advocacy group, Concerned Nigerians, has given Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari a two weeks ultimatum to return to Nigeria and resume his office as the president. The group said the president should come back to continue the mandate given to him by Nigerians during the 2015 elections

HEALTH

Osun Deworm 425 Children, 50 Adults

Daily Dispatch March 4, 2017

No fewer than 425 children and 50 adults were dewormed free of charge at Bode-Osi community via Iwo in Osun State by the Ayofe Health Awareness Initiative, a non-profit group as part of efforts to promote healthy living in rural areas in the state. The group conducted the free deworm in conjunction with Medicare Trust […]

NEWS

Osinbajo, Jonathan, Annan, 12 Serving and Past African Leaders Storm Abeokuta for Obasanjo’s Library Commissioning

Daily Dispatch March 4, 2017

An armada of security operatives from the Nigerian Army, Department of State Security Service (DSS), police, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) and security dogs keep vigil at the sprawling Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL), Abeokuta, Ogun State, as over 12 serving and past African presidents, governors and

NEWS

Lagos To Kano Train Skid Off Tracks

Daily Dispatch March 4, 2017

A train travelling to Kano from Lagos skidded off tracks in the early hours of Saturday. The incident occurred around Dagbolu in Osogbo, the Osun State capital. The three cargo coaches attached to the end of the passenger train got detached and moved backwards until they got to the interchange at the terminus around Old […]

NEWS

Fuel tankers bombed in Maiduguri were diverted – NSCDC

Daily Dispatch March 4, 2017

The Borno Command of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), today revealed that the three tankers destroyed by three female suicide bombers in Maiduguri on Friday, carried petrol meant for Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) mega stations. But the petrol was diverted and kept in a private home. The Commandant of the Corps, Abdullahi […]

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Turkey’s Erdogan and the Doomsday Clock on decree 687

Daily Dispatch March 4, 2017

By Frederick Alumhe Few weeks ago, the Doomsday Clock, a symbolic instrument informing people when the world is facing imminent disaster, was moved closer to its final hour.  One of the United States-based scientists, who orchestrate the clock, said it was an attention-catching signal that was meant to acknowledge “what a dangerous moment we’re in, […]