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BREAKING: Senate bans UK from sending prisoners back to Nigeria

Daily Dispatch May 2, 2017

The Senate has placed a ban on the transfer of Nigerian citizens imprisoned in the United Kingdom back to the country. The Senate came to this resolution following a motion moved by deputy senate president Ike Ekweremadu. The motion was titled “Urgent need to regularize the agreement

BUSINESS

NNPC Supplies the Most Reliable and Cheapest Power to Nigerians- Baru

Daily Dispatch May 2, 2017

The Group Managing Director, Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation NNPC, Dr. Maikanti Baru has disclosed that the corporation supplies the “most reliable and cheapest power’’ to Nigerians. Baru made the statement in Houston on Monday while addressing newsmen on the sidelines of the 2017 Offshore Technology Conference. OTC is an annual conference of experts in the […]

NEWS

Breaking: Senate drops Peace Corps bill

Daily Dispatch May 2, 2017

The Senate on Tuesday dropped the Peace Corps bill till further notice over allegation of collection of money from the corps. The National Commandant of the Nigerian Peace Corps, Dickson Akoh, was in March detained by the Police. Akoh was later arraigned for presiding over an illegal organization after his arrest by the police and […]

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Breaking: Court remands Sule Lamido in prison custody

Daily Dispatch May 2, 2017

A Jigawa State Magistrate Court has remanded former governor of the state, Sule Lamido, in prison custody. Mr. Lamido is to be in the Dutse prison until May 4 when applications for his bail will be decided, Chief Magistrate Usman Lamin ruled. The magistrate said he needed time to decide on the application for bail […]

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Buhari’s health: Obasanjo, Babangida, Abdulsalami in closed door meeting

Daily Dispatch May 2, 2017

Three former Heads of State – Generals Olusegun Obasanjo, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida and Abdulsalami Abubakar – on Monday met behind closed doors over the health status of President Muhammadu Buhari. The meeting, which took place in the Hilltop Mansion of Babangida in Minna, the Niger State capital, was said to have taken place between “late […]

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We Will Continue To Be Efficient And Make Every Naira Count – Adeosun

Daily Dispatch May 2, 2017

The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, has outlined some steps on how Nigeria’s economy should be taken out of recession. She was one of the guests on the 2017 special May Day edition of the programme, The Platform; a lecture series organised by the Covenant Christian Center Lagos. While addressing Nigeria’s financial crisis, Mrs […]