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Osinbajo to launch direct distribution of relief materials to IDPs in Northeast-NEMA

Daily Dispatch June 7, 2017

Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, would tomorrow in Maiduguri flag off the distribution of 30,000 metric tonnes (1,032 trucks) of cereal directly to affected persons in the Northeastern states of Borno, Yobe, Adamawa, Taraba, Bauchi and Gombe. “The special relief intervention has the objective

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2017 will be sign soon-Ben Akabueze

Daily Dispatch June 6, 2017

The Director-General, Budget Office, Mr Ben Akabueze, says he is optimistic that the 2017 budget will soon be signed. He said this on Tuesday in Abuja at a roundtable organised by Time Economics on issues concerning the Nigerian economy. Akabueze said that to address issues of delayed budget passing and implementation, the Federal Government had […]

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Nigerians have wrong perception about me-Lai Mohammed

Daily Dispatch June 5, 2017

Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has explained why most Nigerians perceive him as a political liar. He said that being the face of opposition for so long before joining the government at the centre gave Nigerians the wrong ideas about him.  The Minister, while speaking during the Osasu Show anchored by Osasu Igbinedion […]

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Buhari may return before June 11-Orji Kalu

Daily Dispatch June 4, 2017

Former Governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu, has claimed that President Muhammadu Buhari will return to the country before June 11. Kalu said Buhari’s health had improved when he visited him in the UK last week and urged Nigerians to stop spreading messages of hate and division about the President’s health. Speaking in an […]

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FG vows to prosecute purveyors of fake news

Daily Dispatch June 4, 2017

The Federal Government on Sunday said that it will not relent until it has exposed those behind the fake news phenomenon in the country and bring them to justice. In a statement in Abuja, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed said that those behind the fake news had the intention of destabilising […]

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Northern cabals using the army to fly coup kite-Okurounmu

Daily Dispatch June 4, 2017

Chieftain of the pan-Yoruba group, Afenifere, Senator Femi Okurounmu, has accused ‘northern cabal’ of using the Nigerian Army to fly coup kite to see how Nigerians will react. Okurounmu said the north was already warming up to retain power in case President Muhammadu Buhari dies in office. He was reacting to a recent statement by […]