NEWS

NCDMB, Gazems Venture Conclude Vocational Training For Lagos Youths

Daily Dispatch December 20, 2025

The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) and Gazems Venture have successfully concluded a Vocational Training and Empowerment Program on CCTV, DSTV, and Security System Installation for youths in Lagos State. The initiative aimed to equip young Nigerians with practical

FEATURES

How procurement reforms engineered a trillion-naira turnaround for Nigeria

Daily Dispatch December 20, 2025

By Sufuyan Ojeifo For decades, Nigeria’s public procurement system laboured under an unenviable reputation. It was widely perceived as a creaking colonial inheritance, labyrinthine in process, porous in execution, and more feared as a bureaucratic choke point than respected as a tool of governance. Procurement was something to be survived, not something to be leveraged.

HEALTH

Stakeholders unveil regional think thank, declare action on maternal, newborn deaths, others

Daily Dispatch December 20, 2025

A Regional Body of academia and experts in the health sector has been inaugurated with the goal of accelerating innovations in maternal, newborn, child, nutrition and health (MNCH&N) outcomes across sub-Saharan Africa.The Regional Think Tank which was formed in Abuja, Nigeria’s federal capital, comprising experts from across sub-Saharan Africa draws its mandate from

NEWS

Zulum disburses N1bn, trains 1,050 youths on GSM repairs

Daily Dispatch December 20, 2025

Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Umara Zulum, has launched an empowerment package worth N1,000,000,000 targeting thousands of young residents, mostly GSM repairers and technicians. The initiative targets 1,050 youths who will be trained on phone repairs and maintenance;  about 3,000 other apprentices will receive cash. Each of them will receive a complete set of

NEWS

As trial of suspected Deeper Life Church attackers speed up, victims, survivors laud DSS

Daily Dispatch December 20, 2025

…Believe justice will be served Following the recent arraignment by the Department of State Security (DSS) of Abdulmalik Abdulazeez Obadaki, the suspected mastermind of the 2012 gun attack on a Deeper Life Bible Church, Otite, near Okene, in Kogi State, which killed over 19 worshippers, families of victims and survivors have thanked the secret police […]

NEWS

Budget: Tinubu allocates ₦5.41trn to Defence, Prioritises Food Security, Targets One Million Hectares for Farming

Daily Dispatch December 19, 2025

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has outlined key priority areas of his administration, with significant budgetary allocations to defence and security, infrastructure, education, and health, while reaffirming food security as a national priority. According to the breakdown, the defence and security sector received the highest allocation of ₦5.41 trillion, reflecting the Federal