BUSINESS

Nigeria’s GDP Growth Rate Contracted By -1.3% in Fourth Quarter of 2016

Daily Dispatch February 28, 2017

The National Bureau of Statistics on Tuesday released the Gross Domestic Product growth rate for the country with the economy recording a contraction of -1.3 per cent in growth rate in the fourth quarter of 2016. The NBS in the report explained that in real terms, the economy recorded a decline

NEWS

Breaking: Senate fixes date to screen Onnoghen for confirmation as CJN

Daily Dispatch February 28, 2017

The Senate on Tuesday fixed March 1 for the screening of Justice Walter Onnoghen for confirmation as the Chief Justice of Nigeria. The President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, announced the date at the resumption of plenary for the week on Tuesday. Onnoghen has been in office in acting capacity since last year. […]

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Obasanjo Admits His Generation Has Wrong Nigeria

Daily Dispatch February 28, 2017

Onetime President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has admitted that his generation did some wrong things to Nigeria. The former Obasanjo made the assertion while speaking at the one-day Trade Fair seminar of Kaduna Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture, KADCCIMA. According to Obasanjo, though his generation made some mistakes, they also laid the foundation for the […]

NEWS

Ogun Police Parades 50 Criminal Suspects At A Go

Daily Dispatch February 28, 2017

Omooba Risawe Fifty suspected criminals of various offences have been arrested and paraded by the Ogun State Police Command in what could be described as harvest of arrested suspects.  The Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Ilyasu who paraded , at Eleweran Police Headquarters in Abeokuta, explained that the arrest were made within two months,adding  that the […]

NEWS

Missing $49bn NNPC Money: Jonthan Denies Amaechi’s Claim

Daily Dispatch February 28, 2017

Former president, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, says Rotimi Amaechi lied over his claim that the country entered into recession because $49 billion went missing from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) under the previous administration. In a statement by Jonathan, released by one of his aides, Reno Omokri, the former president said: “In September 2013, the […]

Politics

2019: PDP Govs. May Dump Party

Daily Dispatch February 28, 2017

Following the recent development whereby People’s Democratic Party PDP allegedly known to be a corrupt party, governors elected under the party are mulling the idea of floating a new party to enable them seek re-election come 2019. This is irrespective of the outcome of the appeal filed by the Ahmed Makarfi-led national caretaker committee, before […]