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World Bank will not allow hunger kill Nigerians – Jim Yong Kim

Daily Dispatch April 21, 2017

President of the World Bank Group, Jim Yong Kim, on Thursday vowed that the organisation will not allow famine and hunger kill Nigerians in the North-East region. He assured that World Bank was deploying tools and financial support required to respond to the famine plaguing the region and some

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How Sen. Jang embezzled N7b state funds – Gov. Lalong

Daily Dispatch April 21, 2017

The Plateau State Governor, Simon Bako Lalong, has exposed how his predecessor, Da. Jonah David Jang, allegedly used workers’ strike to siphon over N7 billion state fund to a private account. Governor Lalong made the allegation on Thursday in Jos when the leadership of the Nigeria Union of local government Employees visited him. The NULGE […]

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EFCC traces N6bn to Niger’s former commissioner

Daily Dispatch April 21, 2017

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has traced additional N2 billion to the United Bank for Africa account of a former Commissioner of Local Government in Niger State, Mr. Kantigi Liman, The suspect, Liman, may be declared wanted by the anti-graft agency. The discovery brings to N6 billion, the funds traced to accounts held by […]

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Buhari is dying in Aso Rock – Perry Brimah

Daily Dispatch April 21, 2017

The convener of Every Nigerian Do Something, ENDS, Perry Brimah, has alleged that President Muhammadu Buhari is dying in office. Brimah in a statement on Friday said Nigeria was being very compassionless to its president and called on the masses to rise against “cabal” locking up Buhari. According to him, “There can be no denying how chronically ill […]

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Osinbajo panel quizzes Magu, Daura, IGP

Daily Dispatch April 20, 2017

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday met with some top security officials and other highly placed officials at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The meeting came 24 hours after the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir David Lawal and the Director General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayo Oke, were suspended from office. […]

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Boko Haram kills 8 soldiers, sack Army base in Sabon Gari

Daily Dispatch April 20, 2017

No fewer than eight Nigerian soldiers have been killed by Boko Haram fighters who also sacked an Army base in Borno state on Thursday. The group also wounding 11 others in two separate attacks in three days, reliable military insiders told PREMIUM TIMES. The army formations involved in the incidents also lost several arms and […]