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Full Text: NEMA DG breaks silence, clarifies Reps allegations against agency

Daily Dispatch November 21, 2018

RE: ALLEGED VIOLATION OF PUBLIC TRUST AGAINST NATIONAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY (NEMA) BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES COMMITTEE ON EMERGENCY AND DISASTER PREPAREDNESSDistinguished members of the press corps, Good Afternoon. I would like to thank you all for coming to this Press Conference.

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“My Transition Hours” a clever attempt by Jonathan to sweep incontrovertible facts on abduction Chibok schoolgirls under the carpet – Shettima

Daily Dispatch November 21, 2018

Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima, on Wednesday said the newly launched book by ex-President Goodluck Jonathan was an “elementary book of fictions” that lacks courage. He said the book, My Transition Hours, by the former president was a clever attempt to sweep incontrovertible facts on the abduction of Chibok schoolgirls under the carpet. He also tongue-lashed […]

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After claiming to be orphan, Atiku’s picture with mother resurfaces

Daily Dispatch November 21, 2018

Barely 24 hours after claiming that he is an orphan, a picture showing Presidential candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and his mother resurfaced online. “I started out as an orphan selling firewood on the streets of Jada in Adamawa, but God, through the Nigerian state, invested in me […]

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Farouk Lawan demanded $500,000 bribe – Femi Otedola tells court

Daily Dispatch November 21, 2018

Businessman, Femi Otedola, on Wednesday, revealed that a former House of Representatives member, Farouk Lawan, demanded a $500,000 bribe from him to remove his company, Zenon Petroleum and Gas Limited from the list of oil companies allegedly involved in fuel subsidy fraud. At a Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja, Otedola said, Lawan removed […]

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Amosun presents N402.63 billion 2019 budget to Ogun Assembly

Daily Dispatch November 21, 2018

Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State, on Wednesday, presented a budget estimate of N402.63 billion as the 2019 Appropriation Bill to the State House of Assembly. Governor Amosun said that his administration rehabilitated, upgraded and widened over 100 existing roads totaling over 600km, opened new roads in excess of 350km in length, and constructed new […]

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Alleged N2.1billion fraud: Court orders Dokpesi to enter defence

Daily Dispatch November 21, 2018

Justice John Tsoho of the Abuja division of the Federal High Court Wednesday ordered the founder of DAAR Communications Plc, Chief Raymond Dokpesi, to open his defence in a corruption allegation against him by the federal government. The government through the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had slammed a seven-count charge of money laundering […]