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Insurgency: Borno to evacuate 78,000 IDPs from Cameroon

Daily Dispatch April 9, 2017

The Borno Government said on Sunday that it plans to evacuate 78,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) back home from Cameroon. The News Agency of Nigeria [NAN] reports that the affected IDPs fled to Cameroon at the peak of the Boko Haram insurgency in the state. The IDPs had a week ago urged

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BREAKING: 8 feared dead as Boko Haram opens fire on traveler in Borno

Daily Dispatch April 9, 2017

Gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram Islamist, on Saturday, April 8, opened fire at private and commercial vehicles along the Maiduguri-Damboa road, Borno State, killing eight people. Daily Dispatch gathered that vehicles attacked were those going to southern part of Borno state from Maiduguri, the capital. Usually the vehicles are escorted by security personnel; they […]

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Breaking: Explosion At Egypt Nile Delta Church Kills 25, injures 60

Daily Dispatch April 9, 2017

At least 25 people were killed and 60 injured on Sunday when an explosion rocked a Coptic church in Egypt’s Nile Delta, state television reported, the latest assault on a religious minority that has increasingly been targeted by Islamist militants. There was no immediate claim of responsibility and the cause of the blast, just one […]

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How Obasanjo’s govt plotted to kill me, ex-army chief Bamaiyi says

Daily Dispatch April 9, 2017

A former Chief of Army Staff, Ishaya Bamaiyi, has narrated how the Nigerian government under former President Olusegun Obasanjo allegedly plotted to kill him while he was in detention for over eight years. Mr. Bamaiyi, a retired lieutenant general, was detained in October 1999 and charged for the attempted murder of the late publisher of […]

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Bamaiyi Tortured Abiola, Abacha Was Better Than Him – Gen Ajayi

Daily Dispatch April 9, 2017

Gabriel Ajayi, one of the military officers roped in by former Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Ishaya Bamaiyi, in the 1995 phantom coup has reacted to contents of the retired officer’s book. In an interview with Punch reporter, Ajayi said “Vindication of A General” contained lies, adding that he expected that Bamaiyi who tortured MKO […]

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Buhari Query EFCC, DSS, ICPC Over Funds Recovered From Corrupt Nigerians

Daily Dispatch April 9, 2017

Following the non-disclosure of funds recovered from looters, President Muhammadu Buhari has queried the Ibrahim Magu-led Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The President directed the EFCC to as a matter of urgency, provide a detailed submission on amount of monies recovered so far by the agency since the commencement of the present administration on […]