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Famine: Nigeria, Norway and Germany Will Today Organise A Conference To Raise Fund For North East, Lake Chad Region

Daily Dispatch February 24, 2017

  Nigeria, Norway and Germany will today Friday organise an International Conference in Oslo aimed at increasing funding for the crisis in north-east Nigeria and the wider Lake Chad region. Hundreds of thousands of children under the age of five in north-eastern Nigeria will suffer from

BUSINESS

Former IMF Chief Gets Four Years in Jail For Embezzlement in Spain

Daily Dispatch February 24, 2017

The former International Monetary Fund chief Rodrigo Rato has been sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison for misusing corporate credit cards while in charge of two leading Spanish banks at the height of the country’s financial crisis. Rato, also a former a Spanish economy minister and deputy prime minister, was found guilty on Thursday of […]

NEWS

UN Sympathise With Nigeria Over Recent Death of 5 Boundary Officials

Daily Dispatch February 24, 2017

The Special Representative of the Secretary-General, United Nations for West Africa, Amb. Mohamed Chambas has commiserated with the people and Government of Nigeria over the recent killing of some boundary officials. The message was in a statement signed by Mr Kabir Bala, Resident Information Officer, Thursday in Abuja. It will be recall that three Nigerian […]

LEAD STORY 2

800,000 People Commit Suicide Annually – WHO

Daily Dispatch February 24, 2017

No fewer than 800,000 people commit suicide every year, the World Health Organization (WHO) has reported on Thursday. According to the report released by WHO, depression is now also the leading cause of disability worldwide, affecting more than 300 million people, the majority of them women, young people and the elderly. WHO, in the report, […]

LEAD STORY 1

Senate Ordered Evacuation of Beggars, Prostitutes, Others in FCT

Daily Dispatch February 24, 2017

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Commissioner and Commandant, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) have been mandated by the Senate to evacuate beggars, hoodlums and commercial sex workers from the streets of the FCT. Chairman, Senate Committee on FCT, Senator Dino Melaye, stated this yesterday at a media briefing in Abuja. Senator Melaye, […]

NEWS

Xenophobia: My two kids in critical condition, says Nigerian victim

Daily Dispatch February 23, 2017

A South Africa- based Nigerian businessman, Mr Abayomi Oyetoro, said on Thursday that  his two children were still in critical condition in a hospital after Saturday’s  xenophobic attacks in that country. Oyetoro said in Pretoria, South Africa, that he threw his children, aged six and nine years, over a neighbour`s fence when a mob attacked […]