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Reps, Stakeholders Deliberate On Creation Of Nat. Council On Climate Change

Daily Dispatch July 20, 2017

Members of the House of Representatives and environmental stakeholders are currently in National Assembly to deliberate on formulating frameworks for establishing the National Council of Climate Change (NCCC). The event is a public hearing on the general principles of a Bill for an Act to

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Igho Sanomi: Third Man Named In the $1.7b swindle of Nigeria

Daily Dispatch July 20, 2017

Court documents filed in Houston by the US Justice Department in the assets forfeiture proceedings filed against Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke and Messrs.Kola Aluko and Jide Omokore have revealed the third man in the $1.7billion swindle of Nigeria. He is Igho Sanomi, one of Nigeria’s young billionaires, who owns the Taleveras Oil Group. Taleveras, along with […]

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FEC approves petroleum policy that will change Nigeria from an oil producing nation to a gas producing country

Daily Dispatch July 19, 2017

The Federal Executive Council has authorised the implementation of the Nigerian Petroleum Policy as government bids to end fuel importation by 2019. Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, told State House correspondents after the council’s regular meeting in Abuja on Wednesday that the essence of the new Nigerian Petroleum Policy approved by FEC was

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Awolowo’s Ambition To Rule Nigeria Responsible For Our Problems Today – Idahosa

Daily Dispatch July 19, 2017

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Charles Idahosa has said the ambition of  Chief  Obafemi Awolowo to rule  Nigeria at all cost is what is responsible for  Nigeria’s woes today. Idahosa, a former Commissioner for Information in Edo state who spoke in an interview with Independent said Awolowo as the then Premier […]

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I regretted inviting Buhari to Politics-Kanti Bello

Daily Dispatch July 18, 2017

Chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC in Katsina state and a former Senate Majority Whip, Senator Kanti Bello has claimed that he regretted inviting President Muhammadu Buhari into politics. The former Senate Chief Whip explained that his regret was predicated on the fact that the past two years of Buhari’s government has been […]

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Why Nigeria cannot guarantee technology-based education – UN…says 65per cent of the 74, 280 schools lack elecricity

Daily Dispatch July 18, 2017

The United Nations Resident Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Edward Kallon has said the country cannot guarantee technology-based education because over 65 per cent of the 74,280 public primary and junior secondary schools in Nigeria lack electricity. He said this in Abuja at the 9th edition of the annual Wole Soyinka Centre Media Lecture series tagged: […]