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Neglect: Common Sense Senator Ben Bruce in trouble over threat to recall him.

Daily Dispatch August 22, 2017

Constituents of Bayelsa East Senatorial District of Bayelsa State have threatened to begin a process of recalling Senator Ben Murray-Bruce, representing the constituency in the Senate. The angry constituents, comprising mainly students, accused the ‘common sense’ Senator of neglecting them as

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South East will get its dues – Buhari

Daily Dispatch August 22, 2017

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday promised that the South East geopolitical zone will get its dues just like other zones in the country. The President gave the assurance through the Special Adviser on media and publicity, Femi Adesina, while receiving a coalition of South-East youths. The group, led by Steve Anyata stormed the Aso Rock […]

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83 Children Used As ‘Human Bombs’, 55 Girls, 27 Boys, And One Baby Strapped To A Girl – UNICEF

Daily Dispatch August 22, 2017

The United Nations voiced alarm Tuesday at Boko Haram jihadists’ surging use of children, mainly girls, as human bombs in northeastern Nigeria, describing the practice as an “atrocity”. The Islamists have for several years been using children to attack crowded markets, mosques, and camps for internally displaced people in northeast Nigeria and the broader Lake […]

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Buhari in a curcial meeting with service chiefs

Daily Dispatch August 22, 2017

President Muhammadu Buhari is currently presiding over a security council meeting at the presidential villa. The council is the executive organ responsible for national security decisions. The national security adviser,  service chiefs, and the inspector-general of police are at the meeting. The president returned to the country from the UK, where he went for medical […]

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Biafra: Buhari provides proof he met with Ojukwu

Daily Dispatch August 22, 2017

President Muhammadu Buhari has posted a short clip of him meeting with Chief Emeka Ojukwu. The video has been uploaded via Buhari’s official Twitter page, as arguments started all over social media, after he mentioned that he met Ojukwu in 2003. In the clip, the two men are seen shaking hands, during the meeting that […]

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EFCC recovers N329 billion from 10 oil marketers for NNPC

Daily Dispatch August 22, 2017

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it has recovered N329.150billion from 10 oil marketers from 2016 to date. This was contained in a report by the Petroleum Products and Marketing Company (PPMC) to the EFCC Acting Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, following investigations by a special task force set up by Magu. The PPMC had […]