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Buhari To Participate In Counter-Terrorism Meeting In Jordan

Daily Dispatch November 30, 2017

President Muhammadu Buhari will between December 2 and 3, 2017 join other Heads of State in Aqaba, Jordan to review strategies in fighting terrorism and reinforce joint security structures that will be more proactive in preventing attacks. Tagged: AQABA RETREAT, the meeting, hosted by His

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Maina: I take responsibility – Per Sec

Daily Dispatch November 30, 2017

The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior, Abubakar Magaji, has owned up to administrative lapses in the purported reinstatement of dismissed former Chairman, Presidential Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina. He took the responsibility when he appeared before members of House of Representatives Ad hoc Committee investigating the “disappearance, reappearance,

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Buhari, Quattara worry over Togo

Daily Dispatch November 30, 2017

President Muhammadu Buhari and his Ivorian counterpart, Mr. Alassane Ouattara, have expressed concern over the political instability in Togo, and warned the crisis could have regional consequences. Both leaders expressed their concern during a bilateral meeting in Abidjan on the margins of the 5th AU-EU Summit. “We must have a solution in Togo. The friends of […]

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Humanitarian crisis: 8.5m persons need life-saving assistance in North-East – UN

Daily Dispatch November 30, 2017

The United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN-OCHA) says over 8.5 million persons are in dare need of life-saving support due to humanitarian crisis caused by the Boko Haram insurgency in the North-East. The agency said in its October North-East Humanitarian Report that 6.9 million displaced persons were targeted for life-saving assistance in […]

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We will not take lightly maltreatment of our citizens, says ECOWAS

Daily Dispatch November 30, 2017

ECOWAS on Wednesday said it would not take lightly the maltreatment of its citizens across countries in Northern Africa. President of the ECOWAS Commission, Marcel Alain de Souza said this this while presenting the Status Report on the State of the Community to the Second Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Parliament in Abuja. De Souza was […]

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2019: President Buhari hints at seeking re-election

Daily Dispatch November 29, 2017

President Muhammadu Buhari has given the clearest hint so far that he will seek re election in 2019. He gave the hint in far away Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire where he is attending the 5th European Union-African Union (EU-AU) Summit. He was accompanied on the trip by a leader of the governing APC, Bola Tinubu, and […]