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NDLEA Smashes Cocaine Cartels Behind 6 UK-bound Shipments, Arrests Arrowhead, 5 Others

Daily Dispatch October 5, 2025

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have dismantled two major drug cartels behind six different consignments of cocaine concealed in walls of stainless cups, body cream and hair gel containers. The spokesman of the anti-narcotics agency, Femi Babafemi, in a statement

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Why security measures were emplaced around Senate President’s office- Source

Daily Dispatch October 5, 2025

Contrary to widespread misleading media reports, the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio did not bar any group of persons from passing through the walkway leading to his office. What the memo issued by the Sergeant-at-Arms did was to advise groups of persons against converging on the walkway. The measure, THE CONCLAVE learnt, was taken to decongest […]

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Dangote, NUPENG, PENGASSAN and public interest…

Daily Dispatch October 5, 2025

By Bolanle BOLAWOLEturnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 (Written for ON THE LORD’S DAY column in the Sunday Tribune newspaper edition of Sunday, 5 October, 2025). Two of my ardent readers and friends prevailed on me to comment on the on-going scuffle between Dangote refinery on the one hand and the two Labour unions in the oil […]

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I,too, must get American in-laws, the efficacy of prayers and other matters,

Daily Dispatch October 5, 2025

By Hassan Gimba (2) Whoever tells you prayers don’t work does not know nothing! Kai, this speaking like a Yankee wannabe has pushed me off my regular lane. By the way, who has even observed that – because of this fixation with wanting to get an American-branded new wife and parents-in-law, which will lead to American kids, has made me

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Fifth Columnists and The Futility of Negative Narratives Around The DSS

Daily Dispatch October 5, 2025

By Onyema Nwabueze, feminwabuking@gmail.com, Imo State For a while now, the DSS have earned commendations from unusual quarters across the country. It would rarely be a surprise especially to the average Nigerian, when commendations for Government agencies run with taxpayer’s funds, come from top Politicians and Government functionaries – these are usually considered

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Polaris Bank, NCF Expand Tree Planting Drive to Lagos, Ogun, and Kaduna States

Daily Dispatch October 3, 2025

Polaris Bank, in partnership with the Nigeria Conservation Foundation (NCF), has extended its nationwide tree planting campaign to three key locations: The Lekki Conservation Centre in Lagos State, the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), Ogun State and Sardauna College Kaduna, Kaduna State. The initiative, first launched in 2024 during the Bank’s World