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Mining Nigeria’s way to prosperity by DOYE BALOGUN

Daily Dispatch July 10, 2017

Against a backdrop of economic pressures in Nigeria and a need to avoid long-term over-dependence on the oil industry, Nigeria is looking to other extractive industries in order to diversify the economy, notes Doye Balogun of Mayer Brown. While 2016 was a challenging year for the Nigerian

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How Badoo gang broke into two churches, stole phones, killed three people

Daily Dispatch July 5, 2017

July 4, 2017, is a day members of  the Celestial Church of Christ, Orisun Ayomi parish, would not forget in a hurry. The church located on Anibaba street, Owode Weighbridge along Ikorodu road in Lagos, played host to members of the deadly Badoo gang which has been terrorising residents of Ikorodu for over a year. According to the head […]

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Boko Haram: Over 5,000 Borno Refugees Return Home

Daily Dispatch July 2, 2017

Movements of refugee returnees from the Republic of Cameroon have continued en-route Banki through Pulka towns of Borno State in North-East Nigeria. So far, over 5,000 persons have returned to Pulka, their ancestral town which is one of the seven wards in Gwoza Local Government Area of the state while many others are still being […]

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GNI: Beautiful Bride, Many Suitors of Ogun State by Oladayo Obileye

Daily Dispatch June 30, 2017

Another political bell is ringing in the Gateway State,Ogun, where stakeholders are expected to exercise their francise to elect persons whom they could entrust the investments of the state unto. A person who would give them the assurances of life and living, a person who would take them out of human, material and financial bondage, […]

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On Boko Haram front line, Nigerian vigilantes amass victories and power

Daily Dispatch June 15, 2017

His broken arm is in a bamboo splint, his torso pock-marked with shrapnel and his jaw wired together by a Nigerian army surgeon. But 38-year-old vigilante Dala Aisami Angwalla is undaunted by two nearly fatal brushes in the last year with Boko Haram, one involving a landmine, the other an ambush, and is determined to […]

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Why meningitis spreads easily in northern Nigeria- MSF Advisor

Daily Dispatch June 6, 2017

At least 813 persons have died in northern Nigeria since the outbreak of meningitis in November last year. The eruption of the killer disease and its speedy lethal effect had generated massive concern from across and outside Nigeria. But due to the general lack of adequate knowledge on the disease, many Nigerians, including public officials ascribed […]