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No Soldier Was Kidnapped In Lagos – Army

Daily Dispatch February 22, 2017

The Nigerian Army has denied the widely circulated news that dare-devil kidnappers abducted a lieutenant in the Nigerian Army in Abule Ado area of FESTAC town, Lagos state in the evening of Monday, February 20. The Nigerian Army says a soldier widely reported to have been kidnapped in Lagos

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Buhari’s health not as terrible as speculated in media – Presidency speaks vacation extension

Daily Dispatch February 22, 2017

The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari’s health status is not as terrible as speculated. Adesina made this known on Wednesday in Channels Television. Asked when exactly Buhari would return to Nigeria, Adesina said, “He communicated the National Assembly and that letter of […]

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Breaking: Senate protest failure of Ministers to appear at budget defence, adjourns

Daily Dispatch February 22, 2017

The Senate has protested the failure of some Ministers and Chief Executive Officers to attend the budget defence of their Ministries, Departments and Agencies. The Senate expressed its angst on Wednesday during plenary. It thus adjourned plenary over the issue. The Senate and the House of Representatives had about three weeks ago adjourned plenary to […]

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Osinbajo ignored Jonathan’s call – Fani-Kayode

Daily Dispatch February 22, 2017

Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode has revealed that Acting President Yemi Osinbajo ignored the call of former President Goodluck Jonathan when security operatives barricaded the International Conference Centre, ICC. Recall that stakeholders of the Ahmed Makrfi’s faction of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, had scheduled an emergency meeting at the ICC,

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Osinbajo withhold assent of four bills

Daily Dispatch February 22, 2017

The Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo has withheld assent to four bills forwarded to him by the National Assembly. President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki made the disclosure while reading a letter from the acting President during Wednesday’s plenary. According to the letter, Osinbajo spotted various administrative hiccups on the bills passed into law. The Bills

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I did not bribe Justice Ademola with N500,00 -Buhari

Daily Dispatch February 22, 2017

President Muhammadu Buhari has dismissed reports saying he bribed Justice Adeniyi Ademola of an Abuja Federal High Court with the sum of N500,000. In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, the President said described the report which claimed Buhari’s former lawyer, Kola Awodein, gave Ademola N500,000 at the behest of his certificate