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Aisha Buhari Calls for Urgent Investment in Africa’s Out-of-School Girls

Daily Dispatch April 6, 2017

The Wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari has called for urgent investment in Africa’s out-of-school teenage girls. Buhari  made the call at a side event organised by the Federal Government in collaboration with the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) at the UN headquarters on Wednesday in New York.

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Why Buhari’s economic model can’t work – Emir Sanusi

Daily Dispatch April 6, 2017

The Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi ll, has said the economic model of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government cannot work. Speaking at the Kaduna State Economic Summit in Kaduna, on Wednesday, the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, said the Federal Government was borrowing unsustainably.  Wondering when the Federal Government would stop […]

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Borno records 3,800 new cases of HIV in IDPs camps

Daily Dispatch April 5, 2017

Malam Barkindo Saidu, the Executive Secretary, Borno Agency for the Control of HIV/AIDS (BOSACA), says 3,800 new cases of HIV infections have been recorded in Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in the state. Saidu told newsmen in Maiduguri on Wednesday that the new cases were recorded after voluntary screening in 15 IDPs camps in the […]

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Boko Haram mines: UN team arrives Nigeria

Daily Dispatch April 5, 2017

A team of United Nations experts has arrived in Nigeria to assess the number of landmines Boko Haram terrorists have laid in the Sambisa Forest. Agnes Marcaillou, the Director, UN Mine Action Service, told a correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria in New York that the team arrived the country on Tuesday. According to […]

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BREAKING: Italy Deports 40 Nigerians

Daily Dispatch April 4, 2017

Forty Nigerians were deported on Tuesday by the Italian government for immigration and criminal offences. The deportees, comprising males and females arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos at about 8:25pm aboard an Air Meridiana aircraft with registration number E1-FNU. The deportation is coming few days after the repatriation of 23 Nigerians for

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Despite The Seeming Feud With The Executive, We’ll Not Shy Away From Our Responsibilities-Saraki

Daily Dispatch April 4, 2017

Senate President, Bukola Saraki said on Tuesday that the National Assembly that upper house will not renege in its primary responsibilities despite the seeming feud with the executive on some issues. Speaking with correspondents in Abuja after the All Progressives Congress Senators’ caucus met with the National Working Committee (NWC) of APC, he explained that […]