Politics

Don’t Run APC Like a Dictator – Frank Tells Oyegun …Says Chairman Plotting to Chase Out Tinubu, Others

Daily Dispatch January 26, 2017

Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Comrade Timi Frank,  has warned the National Chairman of the party to stop running APC like a dictator. Frank explained that the plan  by the chairman to review party’s constitution “is a grand plot against

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Introduce Two Exchange Rate Regime- Sen. Akume Urges FG

Daily Dispatch January 26, 2017

Senator George Akume has called on the Federal Government to introduce only two exchange rate regime in order to secure local currency and strengthen implementation of 2017 Budget. While contributing to the budget debate, Akume explained that the multiple exchange rate regime where each sector has its foreign exchange rate was responsible for instability of […]

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UK Court to Rule if Nigeria Shell Claims Can Proceed

Daily Dispatch January 26, 2017

More than 40,000 Nigerians will on Thursday discover if London’s High Court can rule on their pollution claims against Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell over spills in the Niger Delta. The Guardian report that lawyers for the claimants are demanding action from Shell to clean up spills that have devastated their communities for decades, but the […]

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President’s Death Rumour: Leave Me Out of It- Saraki

Daily Dispatch January 26, 2017

The Senate President Bukola Saraki has condemned the attempt by some section of the media to drag him into the death rumour of President Muhammadu Buhari. Saraki advised those peddling such news not to involve him in the matter. In a statement issued by his Special Adviser on media Yusuf Olaniyonu Saraki said he had […]

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Turkey’s Erdogan and ISIS New Breeding Ground

Daily Dispatch January 26, 2017

By Ismail Yakob It is no longer news that for sometime now, the radical terrorist group, the Islamic State also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)  has been terrorizing several parts of the world. The group, which still control swathe of areas in Syria and Iraq, where it originated from, has […]

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Court orders interim forfeiture of Malabu oil block, OPL 245 To FG

Daily Dispatch January 26, 2017

A Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday ordered the interim forfeiture of Oil Prospecting License (OPL 245) to the Federal Government pending investigation and prosecution of suspects in the $1.1bn Malabu Oil scam. Justice John Tsoho granted the order shortly after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission move an ex parte on Thursday. The […]