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Breaking: FG postpones ‘Nigeria at 60’ awards

Daily Dispatch August 29, 2021

The Federal Government has postponed the Nigeria at 60 Jubilee Special Award ceremony, scheduled earlier to hold on Sept. 3. The Minister for Industry, Trade and Investment, Adeniyi Adebayo, made this known in a statement by his Special Assistant on Media, Ifedayo Sayo, on Sunday in Abuja.

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FG declares ex-Naval officer wanted over anti-Buhari interview on Channels TV

Daily Dispatch August 28, 2021

The Federal Government has declared a former Navy Commodore, Kunle Olawunmi, wanted over his revelations on Channels Television’s ‘Sunrise Daily’ breakfast programme last Wednesday. He had claimed Boko Haram terrorists mentioned names of current governors, senators and Aso Rock officials as sponsors during interrogation but the President, Major General Muhammadu

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DisCos get NERC approval to increase tariff September 1

Daily Dispatch August 28, 2021

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has directed the 11 Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) to increase their tariff effect from 1st September 2021. According to a document, The Nation obtained at the weekend, the NERC has given the energy distributors the leverage to charge a service-based tariff in its letter titled “Tariff Increase

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Secondus absent as Akinwonmi presides over PDP NEC meeting

Daily Dispatch August 28, 2021

The Peoples Democratic Party’s 92nd National Executive Committee meeting was presided over by Elder Yemi Akinwonmi on Saturday. Akinwonmi is the acting National Chairman of the party after a court order restrained Uche Secondus from the role. Secondus has since obtained another court order reinstating him as the National Chairman. But, in a letter obtained […]

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Cost of staying together is cheaper than cost of dividing Nigeria – Obasanjo

Daily Dispatch August 27, 2021

Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo on Friday, declared that the cost of staying together as a nation is cheaper than the cost of dividing Nigeria. Obasanjo asserted that the “many enemies” who don’t want to see the country’s continued co-existence would fail. In a statement by his Special Assistant on Media Kehinde Akinyemi, the former […]

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Allow Igboho To Continue His Journey, Soyinka Tells Benin Republic

Daily Dispatch August 27, 2021

Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has called on the government of the Republic of Benin to release Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, to continue his journey. Speaking with journalists in Lagos on Friday during an interactive session titled, “Sanctions on the loose: Chasing the gnat with a sledgehammer,” the elder statesman […]