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Tinubu in closed-door meeting with Oyetola, Aregbesola, Akande

Daily Dispatch December 3, 2020

The National Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is currently having a closed-door meeting with the Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, Minister for Interior, Rauf Aregbesola and former National Chairman of the ruling party, Chief Bisi Akande. The meeting holding

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Breaking: Maina extradited to Nigeria after arrest in Niger Republic

Daily Dispatch December 3, 2020

The embattled Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina has been extradited to Nigeria to face his ongoing money laundering trial. Maina was arrested in Niamey, the capital of Niger Republic after he jumped bail and was declared wanted by an Abuja High Court. He was received on Thursday by men of the Nigeria […]

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EndSARS: Police ask court to stop judicial panels’ probes

Daily Dispatch December 3, 2020

The Nigeria Police Force has filed a suit at the Federal High Court in Abuja praying for an order stopping the various states’ judicial panels of enquiry probing allegations of rights abuses and other acts of brutality of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad and other police tactical units. The plaintiff in the suit marked, FHC/ABJ/CS/1492/2020, […]

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Finance Bill: TIN compulsory for Corporate account holders

Daily Dispatch December 3, 2020

The Finance Bill, 2020 on Wednesday passed first and second readings in the Senate, a day after President Muhammadu Buhari presented it. Section 49 of the Finance Act has been amended to make the provision of Tax Identification Number (TIN) mandatory for persons intending to open a bank account for business operations. The executive bill […]

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Lawyer dumps Maina’s company, withdraws representation at trial

Daily Dispatch December 3, 2020

A Federal High Court in Abuja has granted leave to Mr. Adeola Adedipe representing Common Inputs Ltd. to withdraw from the money laundering case brought against the company by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). At the resumed trial in Abuja on Thursday, Justice Okon Abang in a bench ruling granted the lawyer’s application […]

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2023: Next President should come from the south – Shekarau

Daily Dispatch December 3, 2020

Former Governor of Kano State, Ibrahim Shekarau, has said Nigeria’s next president should come from the Southern part of the country. He said by 2023, the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), who is from the northern part of the country, would have been in power for eight years, and “common sense tells that we […]