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Concerns rise over security and governance in Benue State

Daily Dispatch November 21, 2025

The Center for Democracy and Human Rights (CEDEHUR) has expressed deep concern over the worsening security and administrative situation in Benue State under Governor Hyacinth Alia. In a press statement read by Comrade Adebayo Lion Ogory in Abuja, CEDEHUR highlighted a series of violent

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Abiodun Mourns Segun Awolowo

Daily Dispatch November 21, 2025

Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun has described the passing of Mr. Olusegun Awolowo Jr., grandson of the late Nigerian nationalist and statesman, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, as a deeply profound personal loss. The governor, in a condolence message, said the death of the lawyer and former Executive Director/CEO of the Nigerian Export Promotion Council at […]

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Fayose-Obasanjo: Two eboras dragging same pair of trousers (1)

Daily Dispatch November 21, 2025

By Tunde Odesola (Published in The PUNCH, on Friday, November 21, 2025) Accident and misfortune have no permanent abodes, though both roam aimfully about, looking to pounce. They are identical twins with different temperaments: one sprints, the other stalks. Sometimes they travel separately, sometimes hand-in-hand, depending on the havoc at hand. Swift or slow, they […]

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Segun Awolowo, grandson of Obafemi Awolowo, dies at 62

Daily Dispatch November 20, 2025

Olusegun Awolowo (Jr), the former Executive Director of the Nigerian Export Promotion Council and the grandson of the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, is dead. The deceased, the son of Obafemi Awolowo’s first child, Olusegun (Sr), died at the age of 62 on Thursday, November 20, 2025. His demise was announced via a statement issued […]

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Why I did not sentence you to death – Judge explains to Kanu

Daily Dispatch November 20, 2025

Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has explained why he declined to impose the death penalty on Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), despite finding him guilty of terrorism charges. Delivering judgment on Thursday, Justice Omotosho said he would have opted for capital punishment but noted that […]

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Breaking: Court sentences IPOB Leader Nnamdi Kanu to life imprisonment

Daily Dispatch November 20, 2025

Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court in Abuja has handed a life imprisonment sentence to the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. The verdict, delivered on Thursday, comes four years after Kanu was arrested in Kenya under disputed circumstances and extradited to Nigeria to face a seven-count terrorism […]