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Government at all levels condemned for using tax payers money to buy vehicles for politicians

Daily Dispatch June 1, 2017

Hon. Justice Agwadza William Atedze of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) on Wednesday criticised federal and state governments’ use of public funds to buy vehicles for politicians. “This should not be happening; public funds should be used for projects and to meet other desires of the masses”,

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Democracy Day: MMM-Nigeria organises ‘Green Party’

Daily Dispatch May 29, 2017

MMM-Nigeria, a group for mutual financial aid and donations on Monday organised a green party show in the Federal Capital Territory to celebrate Nigeria’s Democracy Day. The party, which held at the Millennium Park, was opened to members of the group and non-members alike. Mr Seyi Bello, the President of Abuja Guiders Forum of the […]

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How Timi Frank’s timely warning as an antidote halted Emir Sanusi’s probe

Daily Dispatch May 25, 2017

It is a fact that the Kano state House of Assembly has suspended the probe of Muhammad Sanusi II, the Emir of Kano – It is also a fact that before the issue escalated, some notable politicians called for caution on both sides – One of such politicians, whose voice was the loudest, is the […]

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Alone in Maiduguri: the orphans of Boko Haram

Daily Dispatch May 18, 2017

Children orphaned by Boko Haram Islamists play on a merry-go-round in an abandoned amusement park in Maiduguri, Nigeria, on April 27, 2017. In Maiduguri, where the population has doubled to over two million as a result of Boko Haram insurgency, thousands of children are homeless. / AFP PHOTO / Florian PLAUCHEUR After a night on […]

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Profiles of the lawyer who brokered the release of 82 women captured by Nigeria’s militant Islamist group Boko Haram.

Daily Dispatch May 17, 2017

When 57-year-old Zannah Mustapha arrived for the handover of the 82 Chibok girls freed from Boko Haram after three years in captivity, a militant read out the girls’ names from a list. One by one, the abducted schoolgirls, now women, lined up along the outskirts of a forest near Kumshe town, on the border between […]

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Nigeria battles to beat polio and Boko Haram

Daily Dispatch May 7, 2017

The man sporting a giant purple bottom adorned with a swinging horse tail is chanting to the beat of the drummers, his blue-painted face sweating copiously. Children delightedly race around the colourful clown. All except Ismail, 13, who watches from the ground, twisting his head to follow the dance. A man with a megaphone is […]