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Rann Error Airstrike: “Most of the dead and injured were women and children”-MSF

Daily Dispatch January 22, 2017

On 17 January at least 90 people were killed and 120 wounded in an airstrike carried out by the Nigerian military on a camp for displaced people in Rann, in the east of Nigeria‘s Borno state. An MSF medical team, which had started work in the camp just a few days earlier, provided first

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Watch Your Ultrances: Sultan Warns Religious Leader

Daily Dispatch January 22, 2017

Watch Your Ultrances: Sultan Warns Religious Leader The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, has advised religious leaders to disdain from making inciting statements capable of igniting trouble among Nigerians. Abubakar made the call at the Abdullahi Fodio award presentation and book launch in Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi State on Saturday. The Sultan pointed out that […]

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Invasion Of Premium Times: Call MilitaryTo Order‎, Nigerians Tells Buhari

Daily Dispatch January 21, 2017

Omooba Risawe Media practitioners and public analysists have called on President Muhammed Buhari to cautioned the military over the invasion of Premium Times,and arrest of publisher and a reporter by security operatives. The call was made on Friday on a live radio programme,\’gentlemen of the press\’ of Sweet F.M based in Abeokuta, Ogun State Capital. […]

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Trump, sworn in as U.S. president, promises to put ‘America First’

Daily Dispatch January 20, 2017

Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States on Friday, succeeding Barack Obama and telling a bitterly divided country he will pursue “America First” policies at home and abroad. As scattered protests erupted elsewhere in Washington, Trump raised his right hand and put his left on a Bible used by […]

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Premium Times: SERAP, NUJ drag FG, others to UN over ‘crackdown on journalists

Daily Dispatch January 20, 2017

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project and the Nigerian Union of Journalists have sent an urgent appeal to David Kaye, the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, requesting him to “urgently intervene to prevail on the Federal Government, the Nigerian Army, police and several […]

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Anti-Trump Activists Try To Block Access To Inauguration

Daily Dispatch January 20, 2017

Liberal activists protesting U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration scuffled with police in Washington on Friday after attempting to block the Republican real estate developer’s supporters streaming in for the ceremony. About 900,000 people were expected to pack the grassy National Mall facing the Capitol, where Trump will be sworn in, as well as the parade […]