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ISWAP Fighters Fear for Families After Airstrikes in Sambisa, Intelligence Reveals

Daily Dispatch April 9, 2026

Fresh intelligence has revealed growing anxiety among suspected fighters of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) over the safety of their families following recent airstrikes in Sambisa Forest, underscoring mounting internal strain within the insurgent group. Security sources

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SDP Chairmanship crisis: Appeal Court affirms Gabam-led leadership

Daily Dispatch April 9, 2026

…Says party has valid guber candidate in Ekiti The Court of Appeal, Abuja Division has affirmed Shehu Gabam as the authentic National Chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), The unanimous judgment of a three-member panel of Justices of the appellate court delivered on March 27, 2026, is on appeal marked, CA/ABJ/CV/126/2026 filed by aggrieved […]

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Tinubu Inaugurates Lagos Projects Executed by Governor Sanwo-Olu

Daily Dispatch April 9, 2026

President Bola Tinubu has inaugurated the new Open-Mende-Ojota Link Bridge Project, The Lagos State Geographical Information System and the Multi-agency complex, Alausa, now known as Bola Ahmed Tinubu Administrative Complex in Lagos State. The President was represented at the ceremony by Senate President Godswill Akpabio, who formally inaugurated the projects on behalf of

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West Africa’s Child Protection Laws Under Scrutiny

Daily Dispatch April 8, 2026

….as ECOWAS Lawmakers Confront “Implementation Failure” A growing disconnect between policy promises and real-life protection for vulnerable children has come under sharp scrutiny as lawmakers across West Africa begin high-level deliberations in Freetown. The ECOWAS Parliament on Wednesday opened a five-day Joint Committee Meeting aimed at tackling what officials

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Youth Exclusion Could Derail Development Goals, UN Issues Urgent Warning

Daily Dispatch April 8, 2026

A senior United Nations official has issued a strong warning that governments and institutions risk deepening instability and policy failure if they continue to sideline young people, insisting that meaningful youth inclusion is now a critical condition for peace, stability, and sustainable development. Speaking in Abuja at an interactive session with youth, the United

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Agitations for Reparation a Dying Cause?

Daily Dispatch April 8, 2026

By Zainab Suleiman Okino The recent UN resolution that recognised the trans-Atlantic slave trade as the “gravest crime against humanity” did not reverberate across the world as it should have, not even among Africans in the diaspora or those back home. I had expected the resolution to be amplified far and wide for the world […]