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Again Nigerians In Trouble In Johannesburg As S/Africans Burn Houses, Others

Daily Dispatch February 12, 2017

At least 15 houses either belonging or rented by immigrants, especially Nigerians, have been burnt by angry residents in Rosettenvile, south of Johannesburg. The residents are reported to be angry that foreign nationals had turned the neighbourhood into a drug haven. Vanguard reports that some

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$20bn NNPC fraud: EFCC Discovers Diezani’s $37.5m Lagos Mansion

Daily Dispatch February 11, 2017

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has discovered a $37.5m (N11.75bn) luxury high-rise building on Banana Island, Ikoyi, Lagos, allegedly belonging to the embattled former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke. This is just as the EFCC revealed on Friday that it discovered $9.3m and £74,000 belonging to a former Group Managing Director, Nigerian

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Breaking News: Boko Haram Ambushed Army Convoy Kills 7 New Recruits, Abducts Female Soldier

Daily Dispatch February 10, 2017

Boko Haram insurgents have ambushed a convoy of new army recruits in Maiduguri, killing seven troops and abducting a female soldier in the attack. According to the Washington Post, the attack occurred on Thursday evening, February 9, near Mafa town on the main road 50 kilometers (30 miles) east of Maiduguri in Borno state. The […]

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Nigerian Beans Causes Liver Cancer-UN Expert

Daily Dispatch February 9, 2017

Dr. Heiner Lehr, the National Expert on Value Chain, United Nations Industrial Development Organisation, on Wednesday linked a percentage of liver cancer cases in Africa to aflatoxins. Eagleonline report that Lehr made the assertion while delivering a keynote address at the 1st Nigeria Food Safety and Investment Forum in Lagos. The expert, who spoke on: […]

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Boko Haram Has 3, 000 Figthers….Poses Serious Threat To The Military-UN Under Sec-Gen

Daily Dispatch February 8, 2017

The United Nations under-secretary-general for Political Affairs, Jeffrey Feltman, has revealed that the Boko Haram, the terrorist group that caused major devastation in the north-eastern part of Nigeria, is broke. The insurgents, since they were uprooted from the Sambisa forest in Borno state, have been carrying out attacks on soft targets in the country as […]

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Saydnaya Prison is where the Syrian state quietly slaughters its own people. Amnesty International

Daily Dispatch February 7, 2017

  As many as 13,000 people have been hanged to death in Saydnaya between September 2011 and December 2015 in utmost secrecy. Every week, often twice per week, between 20 and 50 people are taken from their cells to be hanged, in the middle of the night. Before they are condemned to death, victims face […]