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Why Security Council adopted resolution on Boko Haram crisis – Britain

Daily Dispatch April 4, 2017

The UK Permanent Representative to the UN, Matthew Rycroft, on Monday  explained  why the Security Council adopted   a resolution on the Boko Haram crisis in the Lake Chad Basin, saying it  was a landmark development. Security Council had on Friday  adopted Resolution 2349 (2017)  to bring

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Boko Haram: BBOG Urges Buhari To Speedily Negotiate The Release of 195 Kidnapped ChibokSchoolgirls

Daily Dispatch April 4, 2017

The Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) group has said that President Muhammadu Buhari must speedily negotiate the release of 195 kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls held by Boko Haram extremists for nearly three years. It also asked why two dozen of the Chibok girls freed last year have been held for months for alleged rehabilitation instead of […]

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GROUP WANTS LIFE JAIL FOR LOOTERS OF N1BILLION ‎ABOVE

Daily Dispatch April 4, 2017

The Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership, CACOL has welcomed and commended the steps being taken by the House of Representatives, on four consolidated bills seeking to strengthen the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC as the fight against corruption surges on. The Chairman of the Centre. Debo Adeniran,in a press statement posited that it […]

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ISIS recruiting Nigerians, Lai Muhammad alerts

Daily Dispatch April 3, 2017

The Federal Government has urged parents and guardians to monitor the activities of their children and wards in order to prevent them from being recruited by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which has now resorted to targetting vulnerable individuals, including foreign students, using financial inducements to recruit them into the terrorist organisation. In a

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African Envoys Hit Out at India Over Attacks on Nigerian Students

Daily Dispatch April 3, 2017

African envoys in Delhi on Monday called the recent mob attacks on some Nigerian students near the national capital as “racial” and “xenophobic acts”. In a statement, the heads of African missions slammed the Indian government for failing to adequately condemn the violent incident. “No known, sufficient and visible deterring measures were taken” by the […]

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Why Corruption Cannot Be Eliminated – Dogara

Daily Dispatch April 2, 2017

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has said that orruption cannot be totally wiped out. In an interview with Daily Trust, he pointed out that even in advanced nations of the world, the menace has not been fully eradicated. “And the issue of corruption itself is not something that can be eliminated completely. […]