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Southern Kaduna Crisis: Sheathe Your Sword, Abdulsalami Committee Tells Aggrieve Parties

Daily Dispatch January 14, 2017

The National Peace Committee chaired by former Head of State, General Abdusalami Abubakar, has appealed to all aggrieved parties affected in the violent attacks in Southern Kaduna, North West Nigeria, to sheathe their swords and tolerate each other for the interest of peace in the state.

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Nigerian Army Sends Troops To The Gambia To Remove Jammeh

Daily Dispatch January 12, 2017

The Nigerian Army has raised an army battalion that would be deployed in troubled Gambia to forcefully remove President Yahya Jammeh from power if he fails to step down on January 19, PREMIUM TIMES can authoritatively report today. The battalion, christened ECOMOG NIBATT 1, was drawn from the Army’s 19th Battalion based in Okitipupa, Ondo […]

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Kudirat Abiola: Major Al-Mustapha, Lagos Govt. Returns To Court

Daily Dispatch January 12, 2017

Barely four years after Appeal Court  discharge and acquitted former Chief Security Officer to late General Sani Abacha, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha (rtd),  Lagos State Government has secured an order of the Supreme Court permitting it to re-open the murder case of late Alhaja Kudirat Abiola against Al-Mustapha. Late Kudirat Abiola wife of the late business […]

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Boko Haram: FG Working To Ensure Remaining Chibok Girls Return Safely- Buhari Assures Malala

Daily Dispatch January 12, 2017

President Muhammadu Buhari has reiterated his administration’s unrelenting efforts to ensure safe return of remaining Chibok still in captivity. Responding to a letter written to him by Ms. Malala Yousafzai, the Co-Founder of the Malala Fund, President Buhari said while he cannot divulge the details of ongoing negotiations to secure the release of the girls […]

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Nigeria Boko Haram crisis: Aid Agencies ‘Wasting Funds’- Shettima

Daily Dispatch January 11, 2017

Most aid groups operating in Nigeria’s north-east are wasting funds meant to help victims of the Islamist Boko Haram insurgency, Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima has disclosed. Shettima pointed out that only eight of 126 registered agencies in Borno state were there to genuinely help. According to the Associated Press news agency, Mr Shettima made […]

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I Collected No Gratification From Malabu Oil Deal-Goodluck Jonathan

Daily Dispatch January 10, 2017

Former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, on Tuesday denied ever receiving any gratification from Malabu Oil deal. Jonathan and his former petroleum Minister, Alison-Madueke were said to have $466million bribe from the deal. A report on Monday by authoritative news medium, AFP, quoted Italian investigators as having leveled the allegation against Jonathan and Alison-Madueke