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Obi urges Nigerians to support fight against corruption

Daily Dispatch October 25, 2018

The vice presidential candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Peter Obi has urged Nigerians to join forces in the fight against corruption in the country. Obi made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja. “We should look at the effect of corruption

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Tight security at Kano Assembly as lawmakers probe bribery allegation against Ganduje

Daily Dispatch October 25, 2018

There was tight security at the Kano State House of Assembly on Thursday as a committee set up by the Assembly to probe the bribery allegation against Governor Abdullahi Ganduje prepares to meet the publisher of Daily Nigeria. The publisher, Jafar Jafar, is expected to appear before the seven-man investigative committee today to provide more […]

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2019: Chidi Odinkalu calls for collation, transmission of election results digitally

Daily Dispatch October 24, 2018

Prof. Chidi Odinkalu, the Senior Team Manager, Africa Programme, Open Society Justice Initiative, has harped on the need for election results to be collated and transmitted digitally. Odinkalu, who is the former Chairman, Governing Board of National Human Rights Commission made the call in Abuja on Thursday on the sidelines the New Media, Citizens & […]

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How Obasanjo’s son-law, Abebe allegedly forged documents to perpetrate a four million dollars fraud

Daily Dispatch October 24, 2018

Norwegian and a Briton, Mr Paul Piche and Ms Charlene Cross have revealed how Mr John Abebe, the brother of the late Stella Obasanjo, a former First Lady of Nigeria, allegedly forged documents to perpetrate a four million dollars fraud. Abebe is facing a four-count charge of forgery, fabricating evidence, using fabricated evidence and attempt […]

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Yakubu Dogara: Recent party primaries don’t show Nigeria’s democracy is advancing

Daily Dispatch October 23, 2018

The just-concluded primary elections by political parties ahead of the 2019 general elections in the country does not in any way show that Nigeria’s democracy is advancing, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has said. Delivering a goodwill message at the public presentation of the book; “Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aids to the […]

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Beware of PDP presidency in 2019 –Balarabe Musa

Daily Dispatch October 22, 2018

A former governor of Old Kaduna State, Balarabe Musa, on Monday urged Nigerians not to “gamble” with the idea of returning the People’s Democratic Party to power in 2019. Musa told the News Agency of Nigeria on telephone from Kaduna that the country would be worse off if the main opposition party is allowed to come back. […]