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I have no plan to contest 2019 election – Osinbajo

Daily Dispatch October 9, 2017

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Monday said he had no plan to contest the 2019 presidential election. According to  Reuters, Osinbajo said this when he was asked at the Financial Times Africa Summit in London if he had considered running. “None of that is on the cards,” the Vice-President

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Agbakoba sues FG over NNPC appointments

Daily Dispatch October 9, 2017

Prominent Igbo lawyer, Dr. Olisa Agbakoba (SAN), has sued the Federal Government for allegedly discriminating against the South-East geopolitical zone in its July 5, 2016 appointment into the Board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. Agbakoba, in the suit filed before the Federal High Court in Abuja, said the Federal Government, on July 5, 2016, […]

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BREAKING: No law mandates me to discuss contracts with you, Baru replies Kachikwu

Daily Dispatch October 9, 2017

The Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Maikanti Baru, on Monday officially responded to the recent allegations of insubordination and corruption levelled against him by the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu.

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55 people stole $6.2 billion from Nigeria – Lai Mohammed

Daily Dispatch October 8, 2017

The minister for information and culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has revealed that the sum of $6.2 billion public fund was stolen from the national coffers. The minister said the money was stolen by 55 people but refused to list the names of the people who siphoned the public fund. Lai Mohammed made this known on […]

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Why NNPC boss ignored Kachikwu–Sources

Daily Dispatch October 8, 2017

Sources close to the Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Maikanti Baru, have revealed the reasons the NNPC boss ignored the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu in the running of the corporation. The sources told SUNDAY PUNCH that the Act establishing the NNPC stipulates that the chairman of the corporation’s board is the

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Patience Jonathan was arrogant as first lady –Ex-US ambassador

Daily Dispatch October 8, 2017

A former United States Ambassador to Nigeria, John Campbell, has described former President Goodluck Jonathan’s wife, Patience, as being arrogant and flamboyant when she was Nigeria’s first lady. In a piece he wrote on Friday, ‘Nigerian President Buhari’s Sisyphean Efforts’, and posted on Council on Foreign Relations’ website, Campbell also wondered how Jonathan’s wife