NEWS

Comptroller of Customs Uniform: Hameed Ali To Seek Legal Interpretation

Daily Dispatch March 15, 2017

Following the stand of the Senate that the Comptroller of Customs, Hameed Ali should appear before it in uniform, the CGC has disclosed that he might seek legal interpretation. The Senate had invited the Customs CG to appear before it on the controversial motor duty paymentand he should do so

NEWS

Breaking: Magu arrives National Assembly for screening

Daily Dispatch March 15, 2017

The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, has arrived the National Assembly ahead of his screening by the Senate. Magu is to be screened by the Senate for his confirmation as the substantive chairman of the EFCC. On arrival, Magu went straight to the office of the Senior Special Assistant […]

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Breaking: Buhari seeks another $500m Eurobond to finance 2016 capital projects

Daily Dispatch March 15, 2017

President Muhammadu Buhari has written to the National Assembly seeking for another $500 million Eurobond to finance capital projects in the 2016 Budget. This was revealed on Wednesday during the Senate plenary. The Senate had earlier in the year secretly approved a $1 billion Eurobond requested by Buhari, also for the financing of the 2016 […]

NEWS

Emir of Ilorin Holds Special Prayer Session For Buhari

Daily Dispatch March 15, 2017

The Emir of Ilorin and Chairman, Kwara State Council of Chiefs and Obas, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu Gambari, will on Friday, March 17 organise a special prayer session in honour of President Muhammadu Buhari. The Emir announced this through a statement issued by the Magaji Nda, Alhaji Salihu Mohammed Woru, in Ilorin on Tuesday and made […]

NEWS

Customs Boss, Ali Bows To Senate, Suspends Duties on Old Vehicles

Daily Dispatch March 15, 2017

The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, has officially suspended the implementation of the new controversial motor import duty payment. The suspension was contained in a statement signed and released on Wednesday, by its acting spokesman, Joseph Attah. According to the statement, the decision to suspend the vehicle duty payment policy followed a meeting between the management of

Politics

PDP Crisis: End verbal war, its ridiculing our party – Women warns Sheriff, Makarfi

Daily Dispatch March 15, 2017

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) under the aegis of PDP Women Forum, has asked the party’s National Chairman, Ali Modu Sheriff and ousted Chairman of the party’s National Caretaker Committee, Ahmed Makarfi to stop the verbal war between them. Rising from a meeting yesterday in Abuja, the women said the verbal war between Sheriff and […]