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[BREAKING] Fuel scarcity: We paid N90bn for products, received nothing, marketers allege

Daily Dispatch December 28, 2017

The Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association on Thursday said the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation lied when it said DAPPMA members owe the oil firm N26.7bn. According to DAPPMA, its members had, in the past one month, paid over N90bn for petrol supply but had yet to receive

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Former NSITF chief, Ngozi Olojeme, held for alleged $48.5m graft

Daily Dispatch December 26, 2017

The former campaign chief of Nigeria’s ex-president Goodluck Jonathan has been arrested for allegedly stealing $48.5m from state coffers to fund his failed 2015 re-election bid, an official said Tuesday. Ngozi Olojeme was head of Nigerian Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) and siphoned off this amount from the fund, an official from the national anti-corruption […]

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Dogara @ 50: Nigeria’s future can be secured with great leadership by younger Nigerians- Buhari

Daily Dispatch December 26, 2017

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday congratulated the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, as he turns 50 years. In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, the President said having followed Dogara’s political trajectory, he believed that Nigeria’s future can be secured with great leadership by […]

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Buhari stirs another controversy, says I thought I was 74 but was told I’m 75

Daily Dispatch December 25, 2017

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday stirred up a fresh controversy over his real age when he said he thought he was 74 but was told he was 75. Buhari spoke when the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Muhammed Bello, led a delegation to pay him Christmas homage at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The President, […]

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Jonathan’s officials, cousin shared N27bn proceeds of PHCN sale –EFCC

Daily Dispatch December 25, 2017

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has revealed that the sum of N27bn, which formed part of the proceeds of the sale of Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN), was shared among top government functionaries in 2014. The EFCC, in a court paper filed before the Federal High Court in Abuja on December 5, […]

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Masses goodwill keeping me in politics – President Buhari

Daily Dispatch December 25, 2017

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that he has remained in politics today because of the goodwill he enjoys from the masses. He made the disclosure in a video clip which appeared in a one-hour documentary titled: “Buhari: Beyond the Iron and Steel” put together by the Media and Publicity department of the State House. It […]