INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Trump pardons convicted Binance founder ‘CZ’ Zhao 

Daily Dispatch October 24, 2025

U.S. President Donald Trump has pardoned Changpeng Zhao, the convicted founder of the Binance cryptocurrency exchange, the White House said Thursday, in the latest move by Trump to boost the crypto industry and expunge its past misdeeds.Zhao, a billionaire known as “CZ” who is one

NEWS

NNPC Ltd Hails President Tinubu on Ekperikpo, Mshelbila’s Emergence as Chairman, Secretary General of GECF

Daily Dispatch October 23, 2025

NNPC Ltd has congratulated President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for his role in the emergence of Nigeria’s candidate Dr. Philip Mshelbila, Managing Director of Nigeria LNG Ltd as the new Secretary General of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF), describing it as a historic moment for Nigeria and a testimony to the Federal Government’s Gas Agenda […]

COLUMNS

Aparutu and His Life Coach

Daily Dispatch October 23, 2025

By Azu Ishiekwene Putting it nicely, Aparutu is the Yoruba word for a joker, a clown. In August 1986, when I first arrived at the wooden, fabricated office of PUNCH in Kudeti, Ikeja, Lagos, for a vacation job, that was how the editor then, Alhaji Najeem Jimoh, referred to me: Aparutu.He wasn’t being mean or […]

EDUCATION

Obasanjo, President Ruto meet to faciltate establishment of Bells University in Kenya

Daily Dispatch October 23, 2025

… as Olota seeks for teaching hospital in domain Former Nigerian President and Chief Promoter of the Bells University Ota, Ogun State Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has disclosed that talks have been started with the Kenyan President, William Ruto to have the establishment of the 20 year-old institution in the Eastern Africa country. Obasanjo made this […]

NEWS

NSCEA condemns death sentence on Sunday Jackson

Daily Dispatch October 23, 2025

…. Calls for Justice and Fairness The Nigerian Supreme Council for Ecclesiastical Affairs (NSCEA) has condemned the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the death sentence of Sunday Jackson, a farmer from Adamawa State, describing it as a miscarriage of justice and calling for an urgent review of the case. Sunday Jackson was convicted of killing […]

NEWS

Tinubu commended for breakthrough by DSS, NASENI in production of modern security equipment

Daily Dispatch October 23, 2025

The Department of State Services (DSS), in partnership with the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI), has achieved a major feat towards technological self-reliance in Nigeria’s security sector. Making the disclosure in Abuja, NASENI Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Khalil Suleiman Halilu, said the high-tech equipment which