NEWS

OgunTo Employ Additional Traffic Officers For Traffic Agency

Daily Dispatch February 4, 2017

Omooba Risawe Ogun State Government has disclosed that it is going to employ additional traffic control officers under the Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps,TRACE,to raise the low numerical strength of workforce of the agency. The agency established in 2005 under enabling law signed by

NEWS

Ibori Leaves DSS Office, Heads To Delta

Daily Dispatch February 4, 2017

James Ibori has left the Department of State Services (DSS) in Abuja after holding a meeting with Lawal Daura, the director-general. The former governor of Delta state returned to the country on Saturday after serving a jail term for fraud in the UK. TheCable understands that he was picked up by DSS operatives and then taken […]

NEWS

FG To Pay Outstanding Stipends To Ex-Militants-Amnesty Office

Daily Dispatch February 4, 2017

For the fear of further uprising in the Niger Delta, the federal government has given assurance to former militant warlords under the amnesty programme of paying the monthly stipends yet to be paid to them. According to Reuters, the office of the amnesty programme, in a statement, said: “We advise all to remain calm as […]

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Iran Vows ‘Rroaring Missiles’ If Threatened, Defies New Sanctions

Daily Dispatch February 4, 2017

A Revolutionary Guards commander said Iran would use its missiles if its security is under threat, as the elite force defied new U.S. sanctions on its missile programme by holding a military exercise on Saturday. Tensions between Tehran and Washington have risen since a recent Iranian ballistic missile test which prompted U.S. President Donald Trump’s […]

LEAD STORY 2

Trump Has Only Spoken To One African Leader Out Of His 56calls

Daily Dispatch February 4, 2017

US president Donald Trump has had many conversations with world leaders since January 20th. Both Trump and Vice President Mike Pence have spoken to 56 foreign leaders. But of all the presidents, prime ministers, and royals whose calls they took, none represent the countries of Africa. He’s met with the President of Japan. He’s spoken […]

BUSINESS

Sanction on Iran: Oil Rises To $57.01

Daily Dispatch February 4, 2017

Oil prices was up on Friday on news that U.S. President Donald Trump could be set to impose new sanctions on multiple Iranian entities, raising geopolitical tensions between the two nations. Comments by Russian energy minister Alexander Novak that oil producers had cut their output in accordance with a pact agreed in December also helped […]