NEWS

Police arrest driver for supplying fuel, food to Boko Haram insurgents

Daily Dispatch April 30, 2017

The Police Command in Borno said on Sunday that it had arrested a driver, Malam Modu Mustapha, suspected to be purchasing fuel and food items for Boko Haram insurgents. Mr Damian Chukwu, the Commissioner of Police in the state, told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Maiduguri that the suspect was

LEAD STORY 2

Group carpets OBJ, says he lacks moral standing to condemn Goodluck Jonathan

Daily Dispatch April 30, 2017

A Coalition of Civil Society groups in the Niger Delta, today carpeted former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, stating that he lacked the moral standing to saying Dr. Goodluck Jonathan did not have the capacity to rule Nigeria. The group described the comments credited to the former president as irresponsible and baseless. In a Joint Statement Signed […]

COLUMNS

Who is afraid of Prof. Stephen Ikani Ocheni as Minister?

Daily Dispatch April 30, 2017

When the Holy Bible declares that the heart of a man is desperately wicked, who would have imagined that such doctrinal revelation could be redefined and taken to a new low by those who physically appear in the cloak of academics but in reality are the very definitions of sadists, traducers, shadow chasers, rabble rousers, […]

BUSINESS

Nigeria loses $850m to gas flaring in 2015- DPR

Daily Dispatch April 30, 2017

The Department of Petroleum Resources said that Nigeria, the ninth largest gas producing nation in the world, lost over 850 million dollars to gas flaring in 2015. Mrs Pat Maseli, Deputy Director, Head, Upstream, DPR, gave the statistics at the just concluded 10th Annual Sub-Saharan Africa Oil and Gas Conference in Houston, Texas, U.S. This […]

NEWS

SERAP rejects World Bank’s explanation on Abacha loot spending

Daily Dispatch April 30, 2017

The World Bank has been accused of resorting to technicalities rather than explaining how the loot recovered from late military junta, Gen. Sanni Abacha was spent. A human rights advocacy group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project made the accusation in response to the World Bank response that it cannot locate any additional information on the […]

LEAD STORY 2

N15bn Recovered From Ikoyi: Lawyer Sues EFCC

Daily Dispatch April 30, 2017

An activist lawyer, Mr. Olukoya Ogungbeje, has sued the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission urging the court to suspend action on the forfeiture application filed by the agency in respect of the cash sums of $43,449,947, £27,800 and N23,218,000 recovered from an apartment in the Ikoyi area of Lagos State. Ogungbeje, who sued the EFCC […]