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Sallah: FIRS felicitates with Muslims, extends filing deadline for taxpayers

Daily Dispatch July 30, 2020

As the Muslim world celebrates the Eid-el-Kabir today, the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has joined the rest of the country to felicitate with Muslims nationwide. This was contained is a sallah message issued and signed by Abdullahi Ismaila Ahmad Director, Communications and Liaison

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A policeman, three villagers killed as police, hunters clash in Oyo

Daily Dispatch July 30, 2020

Three residents of Okeho town in Kajola Local Government Area, Oyo State, and a policeman have been reportedly killed in a clash between the police, hunters, and members of a vigilante group on Thursday. Our correspondent gathered that the fight started following the insistence of the residents to kill the robbery suspect arrested alive while […]

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Lagos East Bye-Election: APC Picks Abiru, Polaris Bank MD As Osinowo’s Replacement

Daily Dispatch July 28, 2020

The All Progressives Congress (APC) Lagos state chapter has nominated Tokunbo Abiru, a former Commissioner for Finance in the state as a  replacement for the late Senator Bayo Osinowo, who represented Lagos East senatorial  district until his death last month. Born in 1964, Abiru, a key loyalist of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, is the current Managing Director/ […]

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You Can’t Fight Your Dethronement In Abuja, IGP Tells Ex-Emir Sanusi

Daily Dispatch July 26, 2020

The Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu has urged a Federal High Court in Abuja to reject the suit filed by deposed Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi against his banishment from the city and subsequent confinement to Awe, a rustic community in Nasarawa State. Sanusi was on March 9, 2020 deposed, moved out of Kano […]

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ASCAB warns on costs of Kaduna killings, blames FG

Daily Dispatch July 26, 2020

The killings in Kaduna has the potential of leading to a round of national crisis that may threaten the fabric of democracy in the country, the Alliance for Surviving COVID-19 and Beyond, (ASCAB) warned on Sunday in a statement made available to Irohinoodua The coalition of labour and over 80 civil society groups also blamed […]

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FG orders NIPOST to suspend increase of license fee for courier services

Daily Dispatch July 25, 2020

The Federal Government has rejected the proposed increment of license fee for courier services by the Nigerian Postal Service, NIPOST. The minister of communication and digital economy, Isa Pantami, in a tweet Saturday morning, insisted that the increase was not part of the regulation he approved for the agency on Friday, July 24. “Our attention […]