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Oyeyemi orders drivers not to transport youth corpers as from 6pm

Daily Dispatch December 10, 2019

The Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps, Dr. Boboye Oyeyemi, has ordered that no transport union should transport any National Youth Service Corps member as from 6pm during the Yuletide. Boboye said this during the FRSC end-of-the-year meeting with transport union stakeholders as one of

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Pensions to ex-political office holders: SERAP gives governors to make public details of their pension law

Daily Dispatch December 9, 2019

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has sent a Freedom of Information Act request to the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Governors’ Forum, Ekiti State Governor Dr. Kayode Fayemi and Sokoto State Governor Aminu Tambuwal, and other 34 governors urging them to use their “leadership position to urgently disclose details of payment of pensions […]

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We won’t declare Kalu’s seat vacant — Senate

Daily Dispatch December 8, 2019

The Senate on Friday ruled out the possibility of declaring vacant, the seat of its Chief Whip, Senator Orji Kalu, following his conviction by a Federal High Court in Lagos on Thursday, PUNCH reported. Kalu, a former governor of Abia State, was sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment over a N7.1bn fraud charges against him since […]

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Sowore’s re-arrest: ‘This has never happened before’, Falana slams DSS

Daily Dispatch December 6, 2019

Lead Counsel and human rights lawyer, Femi Falana has criticised the Department of State Security Services (DSS) for re-arresting his clients, Mr. Omoyele Sowore and Olawale Bakare at a Federal High Court in Abuja, barely 24 hours after their release from DSS custody. Mr. Sowore and his co-accused, Mr. Bakare, were released on Thursday night, following an order […]

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How armed DSS operatives chase Falana as he drives Sowore, Bakare out of court premises

Daily Dispatch December 6, 2019

Scores of heavily-armed operatives of the Department of State Services are currently chasing the vehicle of Senior Advocate of Nigeria and lawyer to activists, Omoyele Sowore and Olawale Bakare, after he drove them out of the premises of the Federal High Court in Abuja. The move follows the disruption of court proceedings by DSS operatives […]

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EFCC arraigns ‘Mama Boko Haram, one other for N66m Fraud

Daily Dispatch December 4, 2019

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Wednesday, arraigned the duo of Tahiru Saidu Daura and Aisha Alkali Wakil popularly known as ‘Mama Boko Haram’ before Borno State High Court, Maiduguri on a three-count charge of conspiracy and cheating to the tune of N66million. The prosecution of the duo followed a petition written by […]