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Buhari’s Trip To Sambisa Cancel, Minister Of Defence To Represent Him

Daily Dispatch March 26, 2017

The earlier trip by President Muhammadu Buhari to the Nigerian Army Small Arms Championship holding in Sambisa forest will no longer hold. Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai who made the disclosure said Mansur Dan-Ali, minister of defence, will now represent President on Monday. David Ahmad,

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Ile-Ife, Benue Crisis: IGP Meets Buhari

Daily Dispatch March 24, 2017

The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris on Friday briefed President Muhammadu Buhari on security crises in the country. This included the Zaki Biam crisis in Benue State and Ile-Ife crisis in Osun State which resulted in the death of many Nigerians. Speaking with State House correspondents at the end of the meeting, he […]

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Soldiers kill pupil, injure others while rescuing herdsmen

Daily Dispatch March 24, 2017

One of the bullets reportedly fired by soldiers attached to 707 Special Forces Brigade in Makurdi, Benue State, has killed a secondary school pupil, identified as Ayew Atume. It was gathered that Atume, a resident of Jato Aka in the Kwande Local Government Area of the state, was having a lunch in his parents’compound after […]

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N1.3b grass cutting contracts awarded to 20 ‘ghost’ firms – Senate

Daily Dispatch March 24, 2017

Contracts worth about N1.3 billion were awarded to about 20 contractors without traceable addresses in the North East, the Senate said on Thursday. Part of the contracts was for the cutting of grasses. The Senate said its investigations so far in locating the companies have not yielded fruits. The Chairman of the Senate AdHoc Committee […]

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FG awards $1.79 bln railway contract to Chinese firm CCECC

Daily Dispatch March 23, 2017

Nigeria has awarded a $1.79 billion contract to a Chinese state-owned firm for work on the second phase of Abuja’s mass transit railway, the capital city’s minister said on Wednesday. The three-year management contract is the latest in a series of infrastructure projects won by China Civil Engineering Construction Corp (CCECC) in Africa’s most populous

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Nigeria spent $2.6bn on Boko Haram humanitarian crisis in 2016 – Olonisakin

Daily Dispatch March 23, 2017

Nigeria spent more than $2.6 billion  in 2016 to address the humanitarian challenges caused by Boko Haram terrorists, Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Abayomi Olonisakin, has said. The Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Olonisakin stated this at the meeting of the ‘Global Coalition Working to Defeat ISIS’ in Washington, D.C. […]