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Nigeria’s debt increases to N26.2tr

Daily Dispatch January 17, 2020

Nigeria’s total debt stock comprising the Debts of the FGN, 36 States and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) as at September 2019 now stands at N26.215 trillion Director General of the Debt Management Office (DMO) Ms Patience Oniha made this disclosure in Abuja on Friday at the presentation of

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Non payment of staff: Iwas duped by a Nigerian- Atiku

Daily Dispatch January 17, 2020

Former Vice President and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for the 2019 election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has said he was ripped off by a Nigerian consultant, John Chiamehen, who he hired for the planning, design, build-out and rollout of TV Gotel Africa to be based in Abuja. Abubakar, in a statement on Thursday, offered […]

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Fed Govt rakes in over ₦70bn from VAIDS

Daily Dispatch January 16, 2020

Federal Government’s data mining activities on taxpayers has shown that over ₦70 billion was realized from the now ended Voluntary Assets and Income Declaration Scheme (VAIDS) programme. Minister of finance, budget and National Planning Mrs. Zainab Ahmed made this disclosure on Thursday while inaugurating the board of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). According to

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Atiku Abubakar: I am not owing workers of GOTEL

Daily Dispatch January 16, 2020

After days of silence, former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has reacted to claims that he is owing some foreign workers recruited for his media company, GOTEL. In a statement today, his media office rebutted the claim, saying “Nothing can be further from the truth”. It emerged from the statement that money to pay the workers of […]

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50th anniversary of end of Nigeria’s civil war: Reject division, embrace national unity- Presidency to Nigerians

Daily Dispatch January 15, 2020

The Buhari presidency has urged Nigerians to reject division and embrace national unity, according to a statement issued in commemoration of the end of the civil war fought between 1967 and January 1970. In the statement by Malam Garba Shehu, the SSA Media and publicity, the presidency said the war, in which no victor, no […]

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Ihedioha: Atiku urges aggrieve members not to despair over S’Court ruling

Daily Dispatch January 15, 2020

The 2019 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, on Wednesday urged aggrieved members of the party in Imo State not to despair over the nullification of the electoral victory of the PDP 2019 governorship candidate in Imo, Chief Emeka Ihedioha, by the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court had nullified Ihedioha’s victory and […]