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Video: Govs Makinde, Bala Mohammed, Turaki Teargassed at PDP Secretariat

Daily Dispatch November 18, 2025

There is currently tension at the headquarters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Abuja over attempts to hold parallel meetings. The National Working Committee (NWC) elected in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, and the faction backed by Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom

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Taraba PDP Chairman resigns, set to join Governor Kefas in defecting to APC

Daily Dispatch November 18, 2025

The political landscape in Taraba State has taken a dramatic turn as the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Abubakar Bawa, has resigned from his position and withdrawn his membership from the party. Bawa’s resignation came shortly after his return from the PDP national convention held in Ibadan. His exit marks one of […]

BUSINESS NEWS

Delta, Rivers, Akwa Ibom lead FAAC allocations as States receive ₦4.587tn in eight months — NBS

Daily Dispatch November 18, 2025

Nigeria’s 36 states received a combined ₦4.587 trillion from the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) between January and August 2025, according to new data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). The breakdown shows that states with strong derivation earnings dominated the top of the ranking, while others with lower revenue bases received

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Air Force officer reportedly stabbed in Lagos after disrupting street football game

Daily Dispatch November 18, 2025

Residents of Oremeji, in the Shasha area of Alimosho Local Government, Lagos State, were thrown into panic on Sunday, November 9, after street urchins stabb*d a Nigerian Air Force officer. Community sources told our correspondent during a visit to the area on Saturday that the incident began after a confrontation between the officer—who was “not […]

FEATURES

How They Buy the Judges — And Break the Country

Daily Dispatch November 18, 2025

By Babafemi Ojudu A lot happens in Nigeria that, if you did not witness it yourself, you would swear it was impossible. Some events are so bizarre, so grotesque in their violation of common sense and morality, that even D.O. Fágúnwà’s magical adventures in Ìrìnkèrindò Nínú Igbo Elegbeje pale beside them. Yet these are not […]

COLUMNS

Wike, Yerima: Building something on nothing…

Daily Dispatch November 18, 2025

By Bolanle BOLAWOLEturnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 My phone rang and a professional colleague rained torrents of questions: “Assuming Nyesom Wike, the FCT minister, is a Northern Muslim, do you think Yerima would have responded to him the way he did?” “Assuming Yerima is a southerner or southern Christian, and the FCT minister is a northern […]