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Benue youths to Ortom: Save your energy for governance, leave Buhari alone

Daily Dispatch July 26, 2021

The Tiv Youth Council Worldwide has urged Gov. Samuel Ortom of Benue to concentrate on good governance and refrain from criticising President Muhammadu Buhari. The President of the council, Mr Mike Msuaan in a statement on Monday in Abuja, accused Ortom of not providing dividends of democracy

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We cannot be intimidated to join APC – PDP Govs

Daily Dispatch July 26, 2021

Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ forum Waziri Tambuwal has alleged Governors joining the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) from the party did so to avoid being prosecuted for their corrupt deeds. He stated the remaining PDP Governors will not be intimidated. Tambuwal, who was represented by Taraba Governor, Darius Ishaku, spoke at […]

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Just in: PDP Govs insist on electronic transmission of results

Daily Dispatch July 26, 2021

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum has maintained the National Assembly must approve electronic transmission of election results. The National Assembly had rejected the proposal during a plenary on Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill. But the PDP Govs insist the National Assembly must enact laws to make it possible. In a ten-point -communique at the […]

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Buhari signs N982.72bn supplementary budget for security, COVID-19

Daily Dispatch July 26, 2021

President Muhammadu Buhari has assented to the 2021 Supplementary Appropriation Bill submitted to the National Assembly in June. Mr Umar El-Yakub, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters, disclosed this to State House correspondents after a meeting with the President on Monday in Abuja, the nation’s capital. The 2021 Supplementary

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President Buhari jets out to attend GPE 2021to 2025 in London

Daily Dispatch July 26, 2021

President Muhammadu Buhari will on Monday depart Abuja for UK to participate in the Global Education Summit on Financing Global Partnership for Education (GPE) 2021 to 2025.The President’s spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, who confirmed this development in a statement in Abuja on Monday, said the summit would be co-hosted by UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, […]

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Tension in Abuja, Cotonou as Kanu, Igboho’s trials resume today

Daily Dispatch July 26, 2021

The trial of the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, continues at the Federal High Court, Abuja, today.Also, Sunday Adeyemo, known as Sunday Igboho, will continue his trial at a court in Cotonou, Benin Republic. Igboho was arraigned in Benin Republic, at the Cardinal Bernardin International Airport, on last Monday night.