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How Aliko Dangote became the richest person in Africa

Daily Dispatch October 9, 2018

At the age of 21, Aliko Dangote borrowed $3,000 from his uncle to import and sell agricultural commodities in Nigeria, his native country. His business venture quickly became a success, and as a result, he managed to repay the entire loan within three months of starting operations. For the

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ANALYSIS OF THE MASSIVE FINANCIAL CORRUPTION AT THE PDP PRIMARY/NATIONAL CONVENTION by Sirajo Sabo Gassol

Daily Dispatch October 8, 2018

There are at least 4,000 delegates participating in PDP’s presidential primary election. Saraki is paying each delegate $1,000 (N350,000), that is potentially $4Million (N1.4 Billion) for delegates alone, his opening bid as at yesterday. Atiku opened his own bid at $5,000 (N1,750,000) per delegate, or $20,000,000 (N7 Billion) for all the delegates. Nyesom Wike was

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Trending Video: What Obasanjo said about Atiku

Daily Dispatch October 8, 2018

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo is certainly not a fan of Atiku Abubakar, his former vice-president, who is now the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party. His various testimonials about his former deputy are trending online. The 72 year-old former customs officer, emerged on Sunday as the opposition’s standard bearer for the 2019 election, to […]

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PDP Convention: Delegates shop for highest bidder

Daily Dispatch October 6, 2018

The PDP convention holding today in Port Harcourt is a competition among aspirants who are prepared to transform the garden city into a political bazaar to buy and sell delegates in many foreign currencies,many observers have noted. Reports indicated that the city is awash with many caucuses who have stockpiled huge sum of foreign currencies […]

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PDP Convention: Governor Wike becomes instant bride as presidential aspirants woo him

Daily Dispatch October 5, 2018

As the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) holds what political observers regard as a make-or-mar national convention in Adokyie Amasiameka stadium in Port Harcourt, on Saturday, Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State who also doubles as the host has become an instant bride to the presidential aspirants. Governor Wike has in the last three years provided […]

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Gov Ishaku and the Taraba PDP primaries: an immediate assessment. By Emmanuel Bello

Daily Dispatch October 4, 2018

    Adjudged to be one of the best in the history of Taraba state, the ongoing PDP primaries has added colours to the records of the incumbent governor, Arc. Darius Dickson Ishaku. For a man many critics have called a political neophyte, Ishaku is doing something worthy of emulation even on the national scale: […]