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Igbo leaders threaten defection if PDP fails to zone presidency to South-East

Daily Dispatch March 25, 2021

A group of eminent Nigerians from the South-East geopolitical zone under the auspices of the Igbo Leadership Development Foundation has threatened to mobilise their people to dump the Peoples Democratic Party if it fails to zone the 2023 presidency to the region. The group stated this in a

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Allocate N150bn for ranching, livestock development, Miyetti Allah tells FG

Daily Dispatch March 25, 2021

Fulani socio-cultural group, the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, has asked the Federal Government to budget the sum of N150bn for the ranching of cows, and the development of the entire livestock farming value chains in Nigeria. Spokesman for the group, Saleh Alhassan, spoke on Wednesday while featuring on PUNCH Online interview programme, The Roundtable.

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Alleged money laundering: AGF tenders hard currency against retired Air Commodore, Umar Mohammed

Daily Dispatch March 25, 2021

The Federal Government, on Thursday, tendered before the Federal High Court, Abuja, different currencies of dollars stashed in three bags as evidence in the money laundering charge against retired Air Commodore Umar Mohammed. Counsel to the Attorney General of the Federation, AGF, Magaji Labaran, tendered the bags of money before Justice Inyang

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[Breaking] 2019 election: Professor of Soil Science to spend 3 years behind bars for electoral fraud

Daily Dispatch March 25, 2021

Professor Peter Ogban, a returning officer in the 2019 general elections in Akwa Ibom North-West Senatorial District has been jailed for election fraud. Ogban, who is a Professor of Soil Science at the University of Calabar (UNICAL) was jailed by a High Court in Akwa Ibom State on Thursday. He was found guilty of fraudulent […]

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Report indicts NNPC, CBN, others of under-remittance to FG

Daily Dispatch March 25, 2021

A report from forensic auditors, KPMG has indicted about seven government revenue-generating agencies for under-remitting over N526.35 billion and $21.199 billion to the Federation Account between January 2010 and June 2015. A report presented to the House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts on Wednesday also showed that four other agencies under-remitted

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Buhari urges envoys to join hands in tackling common threats across the globe

Daily Dispatch March 25, 2021

President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday in Abuja called on the international community to further collaborate on tackling some of the major threats across the globe, which include terrorism, insurgency, displacement of persons, and climate change, reiterating that the growing challenges pose real threat to human existence. Speaking at a ceremony for receiving Letters of