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Presidency Distances Self From Claims On Magu’s Confirmation Letter

Daily Dispatch January 23, 2017

President Muhammadu Buhari may have written to the Senate, asking the lawmakers to confirm the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Ibrahim Magu. Buhari’s letter was in response to the communication from the Senate on the rejection of Magu as EFCC chairman based

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N1.6b Fraud: I was Forced To Implicate Jonathan-Dudafa

Daily Dispatch January 23, 2017

A former aide to ex-President Gooluck Jonathan, Waripamo-Owei Dudafa has told a Federal High Court in Lagos that he was “tormented” by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in order to implicate the former president. Dudafa who was testifying before Justice Muhammed Idris in a trial-within-trial claimed that the statement he made to the […]

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We Are Partners Not Enemy-FG Tells #BBOG

Daily Dispatch January 23, 2017

The federal government has urged the Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) group to see government as a partner rather than an adversary in the quest to secure the release of the Chibok girls who are still in captivity. In a statement issued on Momday, minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said that the […]

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FG Plans To Raise Crude Oil Production To 2.2mbp

Daily Dispatch January 23, 2017

The Federal  government has maintained its earlier commitment to sell some of its identified but ‘yet-to-be-named’ assets as well as ensure the revamp of local crude oil refineries as part of twelve priority strategies which it is now adopting to quickly take the country out of biting recession. Also, the government said it plans to […]

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Lagos-Ibadan Rail Project: FG Releases N72bn

Daily Dispatch January 23, 2017

The Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, on Monday disclosed that the Federal Government has released N72bn counterpart fund for the construction of the Lagos-Ibadan mordernisation railway project. The minister said this at the Second Presidential Business Forum which was presided over by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo at the old Banquet Hall of the Presidential

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PDP Sleeping Lion, Not Dead Lion- Fayose

Daily Dispatch January 23, 2017

Ekiti State Governor and chair of the PDP governors’ forum, Ayodele Fayose, says the party is “sleeping, not a dead lion.” He, therefore asked for support for all-inclusive efforts to rebuild the PDP. He spoke when he visited former governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel in his Lagos residence on Sunday night. According to […]