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I Sought Mandela and Desmond Tutu’s Advice To Run In 1999 Election-Obasanjo

Daily Dispatch February 26, 2017

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says he went to South Africa to seek counsel from Late South Africa President Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu before entering into elections that brought him back into power after 17 years of down time. Speaking at a church service for his 80th

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Buhari Has Not Disappointed Me- Obasanjo

Daily Dispatch February 26, 2017

Former President  Olusegun  Obasanjo says that the current Nigerian leader, Muhammadu Buhari, has not disappointed him since he assumed office  in 2015. Obasanjo stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at his hilltop residence in Abeokuta. While reflecting on the Buhari  administration since 2015, Obasanjo said that the president had […]

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Famine: Nigeria, Norway and Germany Will Today Organise A Conference To Raise Fund For North East, Lake Chad Region

Daily Dispatch February 24, 2017

  Nigeria, Norway and Germany will today Friday organise an International Conference in Oslo aimed at increasing funding for the crisis in north-east Nigeria and the wider Lake Chad region. Hundreds of thousands of children under the age of five in north-eastern Nigeria will suffer from severe acute malnutrition this year, with up to 20% dying unless […]

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How Slain Al Qaeda Leader Mentored Abdulmutallab Into Becoming Terrorist

Daily Dispatch February 23, 2017

The documents containing detailed accounts of how slain Al Qaeda leader, Anwar al-Awlaki, mentored a Nigerian, Farouk Abdulmutallab, who tried to explode a bomb hidden in his underpants, on a flight from Amsterdam in the Netherlands to Detroit, United States, on Christmas Day in 2009, has been revealed. The Premium Times reports that Mr Abdulmutallab, […]

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University Lecturer, Group Accuse French Govt Of Sponsoring Boko Haram

Daily Dispatch February 22, 2017

A coalition has accused the French government of financing the activities of Boko Haram in the North-Eastern part of Nigeria. The coalition of stakeholders aegis of Concerned Statesmen and Patriots In Nigeria (COSPIN) expressed worry over continued activities by terrorist in the North-East. The group led by Emmanuel Ome, a professor and head of department […]

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I did not bribe Justice Ademola with N500,00 -Buhari

Daily Dispatch February 22, 2017

President Muhammadu Buhari has dismissed reports saying he bribed Justice Adeniyi Ademola of an Abuja Federal High Court with the sum of N500,000. In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, the President said described the report which claimed Buhari’s former lawyer, Kola Awodein, gave Ademola N500,000 at the behest of his certificate