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APC Sets Up Convention Committees

Daily Dispatch December 20, 2021

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has announced its resolve to set up budget and other committees ahead of its February national convention. Addressing newsmen at the end of a meeting that the Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee of the party held at the APC National

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INEC requires N305bn to conduct 2023 elections – Yakubu

Daily Dispatch December 20, 2021

Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Professor Mahmood Yakubu says the commission will require N305 billion to conduct the 2023 general elections. He disclosed this during a meeting with the Senate Committee on Appropriation at the National Assembly on Monday. The INEC boss also noted that the amount will enable the commission to […]

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Breaking: Petrol marketers threaten strike over N50bn bridging claim

Daily Dispatch December 19, 2021

Days to the Christmas celebrations of 2021, petroleum marketers under the aegis of Northern Independent Petroleum forum have threatened to embark on an industrial strike action over N50 billion bridging claim. The forum’s chairman, Alhaji Musa Maikifi made this known in a statement issued on Sunday in Kano State. Maikifi in the statement stressed that […]

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Buhari to universities: Find cure for COVID-19

Daily Dispatch December 19, 2021

President Muhammadu Buhari has challenged Nigerian universities to come up with a cure for COVID-19. Represented by Mr John Mairafi, a Director with the National Universities Commission (NUC), Buhari gave the charge in Oye-Ekiti, at the 5th and 6th convocation ceremony of the Federal University (FUOYE). He charged scholars in universities to engage in global […]

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Turkey-Africa Summit: Buhari calls for concrete support to defeat terrorism in Africa

Daily Dispatch December 18, 2021

President Muhammadu Buhari Saturday in Istanbul called on the Turkey-Africa Partnership Summit to provide concrete support to help defeat terrorism and insurgency on the African continent. Speaking at the third edition of the Summit, President Buhari said the Boko Haram terrorist group, though fragmented by internal strife and degraded by Nigeria’s defense forces, is still

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How Buhari marked his 79th birthday in Turkey

Daily Dispatch December 17, 2021

On his 79th birthday, today Friday in Istanbul, Turkey, President Muhammadu Buhari cut a birthday cake moulded in national colours, green-white-green to start the day, went straight to chair a planning meeting with officials in his delegation and thereafter drove to the Dolmabahce Palace for a meeting with his Turkish counterpart, Tayyip Recep Erdogan. The […]