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Photos: Buhari’s media aide, Bashir Ahmad’s wedding

Daily Dispatch September 25, 2020

Personal Assistant on New Media to President Muhammadu Buhari, Bashir Ahmad has tied the nuptial knots today in Katsina. Bashir got married to his love interest, Naeemah at GRA Juma’at Mosque, Katsina after Jumat prayer. The short ceremony was witnessed by Basheer Ahmad’s friends and family

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World Peace Day: Nollywood Actor Charges Leaders On Peaceful Coexistence

Daily Dispatch September 22, 2020

By ABIODUN JIMOH, ABEOKUTA Leaders in Nigerians have been charged to desist from making utterances that are capable of disintegrating the country. Otunba Bolaji Amusan, the National President of the Theatre Arts and Motion Pictures Practitioners Association of Nigeria (TAMPPAN) gave this charge in Abeokuta in a statement to mark the year 2020 World Peace […]

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Film Industry second largest employer of labour – FG

Daily Dispatch September 22, 2020

The Federal Government has described the film industry as the second largest employer of labour in Nigeria which must be supported even as it noted that the industry contributed N83bn to the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2018.   The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed who stated this at the  inauguration […]

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Breaking: Veteran actor, Jimoh Aliu is dead

Daily Dispatch September 17, 2020

Popular veteran actor, Alhaji Jimoh Aliu (better known as Aworo) is dead. He died this morning at the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital (EKSUTH) Ado Ekiti at the age of 80 Aliu was born on November 11 1939 in Okemesi, Ekiti West local government area of Ekiti State. He was a seasoned actor, producer and […]

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Yoruba Top Actor, Ayo Akinwale, Dies

Daily Dispatch September 13, 2020

A top Nollywood actor and academic, Prof. Ayo Akinwale is dead. Akinwale, a veteran actor and lecturer at the Department of the Performing Arts, University of Ilorin, reportedly died at noon on Sunday 13th of September 2020. A statement released by Prof. Abdulrasheed Adeoye, Dean, Faculty of Arts, Unilorin, reads; “If life is not vanity […]

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CBAAC urges end to slavery, others

Daily Dispatch September 8, 2020

The Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilisation (CBAAC) on Tuesday called for an end to all forms of slavery, servitude, racism, prejudice, racial discrimination and social injustice. Its Director-General, Oluwabunmi Amao, made the call during a public lecture organised in commemoration of the 2020 UNESCO International Day for Remembrance of Slave Trade and […]