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Clampdown on journalists: Total breakdown of democratic tolerance – Adegboruwa

Daily Dispatch January 20, 2017

Eminent lawyer and human rights activist, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, has expressed fears over the recent clampdown on the media by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government, saying the situation is a ‘tip of the iceberg.’ DAILY POST recalls that the police, on Thursday raided Premium Times head

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IPOB Solidarity Rally For Trump urns Violent, 11 Feared Killed

Daily Dispatch January 20, 2017

No fewer than eleven (11) people were feared dead during solidarity rally by the indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, for new US President, Donald Trump in Port-Harcourt, as it turned violent. In a statement by Media and Publicity ‎secretary of IPOB, Mr. Emma Powerful, alleged that the group was attacked by a combined team of […]

INTERVIEW

My Mission For Penpushing Platform, Founder

Daily Dispatch January 20, 2017

Dimeji Kayode-Adedeji is a journalist of repute and currently on the job for over two decades. He has also won various awards in journalism,and first journalist to be personally hosted with sponsored birthday party  by former President Olusegun Obasanjo. The penpusher as fondly called in the media world,has just added another innovation to news dissemination […]

TOP STORIES

Nigeria Airstrike Error: ‘I Saw Dead Children’ Eyewitness Relieves Horror

Daily Dispatch January 20, 2017

In a BBC interview, Alfred Davies, an MSF aid worker, relieves the horror of this week’s erroneous bombing by the Nigerian military of a camp for internally displaced people in Rann, in which more than 70 people – including women and children – were killed and many more wounded. Nigeria’s military has admitted that the […]

FEATURES

From Estate Agent To Gambian President

Daily Dispatch January 20, 2017

Adama Barrow, a successful property developer who has never held public office, has defied the odds to score a shock victory in The Gambia’s elections. His victory in the small West African nation’s presidential poll is arguably an even bigger shock than that of fellow property mogul in the US, Donald Trump. Mr Barrow’s opponent […]

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Leave Office Before Noon or Be Force Out- ECOWAS Leaders Tells Jammeh

Daily Dispatch January 20, 2017

West African leaders have given Yahya Jammeh a final opportunity to relinquish power after Senegalese troops entered The Gambia. Mr Jammeh has been given until noon on Friday to leave office or be forced out by UN-backed regional forces. Troops have been told to halt their advance until the deadline passes. The Economic Community of […]