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In Nigeria, Christian Students Forcibly Converted, Beaten With Whip, Mentally Tortured: New Report

Daily Dispatch February 24, 2018

A groundbreaking new report by watchdog group Christian Solidarity Worldwide has exposed the atrocities Christian children face at school in several countries, from being forcibly converted to other faiths to being beaten and humiliated by teachers for daring to speak out. According to Per

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Com. Timi Frank and Tinubu’s reconciliation effort By Oladineji Odeyemi

Daily Dispatch February 18, 2018

Like John the Baptist, Comrade Timi Frank has been a lonely voice in the wilderness of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) since the party came into power, calling attention of President Muhammadu Buhari and other national leaders to some of the injustices he had seen even before they now finally out of bags. One […]

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APC moves to stop defection of Senators Kwankwaso, Saraki, others

Daily Dispatch February 16, 2018

President Muhammadu Buhari and the leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) are working round the clock towards ensuring that Senate President Bukola Saraki; Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State; Rabiu Kwankwaso, senator representing Kano Central, their loyalists and other bigwigs of the ruling party do not decamp to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). […]

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How Herdsmen Killed My Father, 14-Year-Old Girl Describes Horrific Moment She Saw His Dead Body

Daily Dispatch February 3, 2018

A 14-year-old girl from Samaru Kataf, Kaduna has described how she hid during two savage attacks by calamitous herdsmen on a marketplace where she saw her father’s dead body laying on the ground. Rejoice James, a student at St. Kizito’s primary and secondary school in Samaru Kataf, Kaduna State, revealed that Fulani herdsmen attacked her family’s […]

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Horrors from Libya: Migrants’ reminiscences

Daily Dispatch January 31, 2018

Faith Oboh, 22, is the third in a family of 12 persons; the first daughter in a polygamous family who lost her mother before he finished with her secondary school’s education. Oboh is among the more than 200 returnees from Libya who had to undergo documentation organised by the Edo Anti-Human Trafficked and Illegal Migration […]

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History: 35 Amazing Facts About Ijebu

Daily Dispatch January 16, 2018

Ijebu (also known as Jebu or Geebu) was a Yoruba kingdom in pre-colonial Nigeria. It formed around the fifteenth century. According to legend, its ruling dynasty was founded by Obanta of Ile-Ife. The King of Ijebu (right) The kingdom was one of the most developed in the region with a complex and highly organized government. The capital was at Ijebu Ode where