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Obasanjo Admits His Generation Has Wrong Nigeria

Daily Dispatch February 28, 2017

Onetime President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has admitted that his generation did some wrong things to Nigeria. The former Obasanjo made the assertion while speaking at the one-day Trade Fair seminar of Kaduna Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture, KADCCIMA. According to Obasanjo,

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Ogun Police Parades 50 Criminal Suspects At A Go

Daily Dispatch February 28, 2017

Omooba Risawe Fifty suspected criminals of various offences have been arrested and paraded by the Ogun State Police Command in what could be described as harvest of arrested suspects.  The Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Ilyasu who paraded , at Eleweran Police Headquarters in Abeokuta, explained that the arrest were made within two months,adding  that the […]

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Missing $49bn NNPC Money: Jonthan Denies Amaechi’s Claim

Daily Dispatch February 28, 2017

Former president, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, says Rotimi Amaechi lied over his claim that the country entered into recession because $49 billion went missing from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) under the previous administration. In a statement by Jonathan, released by one of his aides, Reno Omokri, the former president said: “In September 2013, the […]

Politics

2019: PDP Govs. May Dump Party

Daily Dispatch February 28, 2017

Following the recent development whereby People’s Democratic Party PDP allegedly known to be a corrupt party, governors elected under the party are mulling the idea of floating a new party to enable them seek re-election come 2019. This is irrespective of the outcome of the appeal filed by the Ahmed Makarfi-led national caretaker committee, before […]

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Nigerians, Eritreans Top List Of Those Taking ‘Enormous Risks’ To Europe – UNHCR

Daily Dispatch February 28, 2017

The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees has raised an alarm that refugees and migrants, many of them Nigerians, are taking more “diversified and dangerous journeys” to cross rough seas. The UNHCR Director of Europe Bureau, Vincent Cochetel, while releasing a new report: “Desperate Journeys,” on Monday in New York, said the migrants […]

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FG Plans $20b Gas Industrial Park In Niger Delta – Osinbajo

Daily Dispatch February 28, 2017

The Federal Government says it plans to establish a N20 billion gas industrial park in the Niger Delta. This followed the renewed interactive engagement with oil bearing communities in the region. The Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, said this on Monday when some international developers and investors of the project met with him at the […]