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Why Buhari’s economic model can’t work – Emir Sanusi

Daily Dispatch April 6, 2017

The Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi ll, has said the economic model of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government cannot work. Speaking at the Kaduna State Economic Summit in Kaduna, on Wednesday, the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, said the Federal Government was

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Meningitis: What I actually said – Zamfara Governor, Yari

Daily Dispatch April 6, 2017

The Zamfara State Governor, Abdulaziz Yari Abubakar, on Wednesday explained that he only urged Nigerians to pray against out break of deadly diseases but did not attribute the outbreak of Cerebral Spinal Meningitis to God’s punishment for fornication. In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Public Enlightment, Ibrahim Dosara, the governor explained […]

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FG spends 66% of revenue on debt servicing – Sanusi

Daily Dispatch April 5, 2017

Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammad Lamido Sanusi, on Wednesday said the Federal Government is spending a whopping 66 per cent of the country revenue on servicing of interest on debts leaving only 34 per cent for capital and recurrent expenditures. Addressing the second Kaduna Economic and Investment Summit, tagged Kadinvest 2.0, which kicked off Wednesday […]

LEAD STORY 1

Borno records 3,800 new cases of HIV in IDPs camps

Daily Dispatch April 5, 2017

Malam Barkindo Saidu, the Executive Secretary, Borno Agency for the Control of HIV/AIDS (BOSACA), says 3,800 new cases of HIV infections have been recorded in Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in the state. Saidu told newsmen in Maiduguri on Wednesday that the new cases were recorded after voluntary screening in 15 IDPs camps in the […]

LEAD STORY 2

Boko Haram faction denies claims of starvation in new video

Daily Dispatch April 5, 2017

The faction of the rogue Boko Haram militant group led by Abubakar Shekau released a video on Tuesday denying that fighters are dying of hunger in its  strongholds in the northeast. “There is no food that we lack in this forest of Sambisa. It is not true that we have run out of food supply […]

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ICPC Investigating Utilisation of TETFund Grants, says Nta

Daily Dispatch April 5, 2017

The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) has set up a committee to investigate  the use of funds disbursed by Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) to universities. The Commission’s Chairman , Mr Ekpo Nta, made this known in Kaduna, on the  sideline of a five-day strategic action plan implementation retreat organised for […]