BUSINESS

UBA empowers next generation of leaders as 700 youths join GMAP initiative

Daily Dispatch October 21, 2025

Africa’s Global Bank, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, continues to demonstrate its commitment to youth empowerment and leadership development as 700 young professionals joined the bank through the Graduate Management Accelerated Programme (GMAP), signalling a major investment in the next

NEWS

Tinubu replaces Yilwatda with Dr. Bernard Doro

Daily Dispatch October 21, 2025

President Bola Tinubu has nominated Dr. Bernard Mohammed Doro from Plateau State as Nigeria’s new Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction. The nomination has been sent to the Senate for confirmation. Dr. Doro’s appointment follows the elevation of Prof. Nentawe Goshwe Yilwatda, the former minister, to the position of National Chairman of the All […]

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

French ex-president Sarkozy begins jail sentence for campaign finance conspiracy

Daily Dispatch October 21, 2025

Nicolas Sarkozy has become the first French ex-president to go to jail, as he starts a five-year sentence for conspiring to fund his election campaign with money from late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Not since World War Two Nazi collaborationist leader Philippe Pétain was jailed for treason in 1945 has any French ex-leader gone behind […]

NEWS

Nnamdi Kanu’s Lawyer speaks from Kuje Prison: ‘I’m safe and in good health’

Daily Dispatch October 21, 2025

Aloy Ejimakor, the arrested lawyer of the detained Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader, Nnamdi Kanu, has spoken up about the state of his health from detention. Ejimakor was arrested on Monday in Abuja during a protest organised under the banner “#FreeNnamdiKanuNow” convened by a human rights activist and politician, Omoyele Sowore. In a post […]

NEWS

FG to create 20,000 jobs annually under Jubilee Fellows Programme 2.0 – Shettima

Daily Dispatch October 21, 2025

Vice President Kashim Shettima has announced that the Federal Government will generate at least 20,000 new jobs every year through the second phase of the Nigeria Jubilee Fellows Programme (NJFP 2.0). Speaking ahead of the programme’s official launch on October 22 in Abuja, Shettima said the initiative aligns with President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda […]

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FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, holds monthly media chat on Friday

Daily Dispatch October 21, 2025

Having concluded 20 days of projects commissioning and flag-off, the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, will hold his monthly Media Chat on Friday, October 24, 2025. The Senior Special Assistant, Public Communications and Social Media, Mr. Lere Olayinka disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday. According to Mr. Olayinka the projects flag-Off and commissioning, which started […]