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Malabu $1.1 billion Scandal: Italian Prosecutors Request Trial Of Etete, Shell, Eni, Others

Daily Dispatch February 9, 2017

Sources close to Italian law enforcement on Wednesday confirmed that they have requested that Shell, Eni and several Eni senior executives including the current CEO Claudio Descalzi, be sent to trial for alleged international corruption offences over the 2011 purchase of the massive Nigerian

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Breaking News: A Nigerian Arrested In Germany For Plotting Terrorist Attack

Daily Dispatch February 9, 2017

A Nigerian man and an Algerian national have been detained in Germany over alleged plans to carry out a terrorist attack in the European country. German news agency DPA reports that the suspects were arrested in the city of Goettingen while perfecting plans to attack parts of the European country. The report said the men, […]

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2017 Budget: Citizens Wealth Platform Discovered N146bn Project Duplication

Daily Dispatch February 8, 2017

The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) has said that the N7.298tn 2017 budget estimate which is 20.4 percent higher than 2016 estimates of N6.07tn should be reduced by as much as N146bn. The lead director of the centre Barrister Eze Onyekpere who presented a report on the budget under the aegis of Citizens Wealth Platform […]

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Buhari Is Hale and Hearty-Lai Mohammed

Daily Dispatch February 8, 2017

The minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has declared that President Muhammadu Buhari is not in any health danger. Mohammed, declared this Wednesday while fielding questions from State House correspondents after the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) presided over by Acting President Yemi Osinbajo. According to the minister, President Muhammadu

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Withdraw Your Statement, You’r Not In Tune With The Position Of The Govt. You’re Serving- NASS Tells Amaechi

Daily Dispatch February 8, 2017

The Senate, on Wednesday ordered the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi to withdraw the false statement saying the refusal of the National Assembly to approve a loan request from the Federal Government as counterpart funding was frustrating the construction of the Lagos-Ibadan and Ibadan-Ilorin-Minna-Kano rail lines. Amaechi had during a Town Hall meeting in

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Don’t Dignify Emir Sanusi’s Statement- Junaid Urges Norther Govs.

Daily Dispatch February 8, 2017

The former Joint House Leader of the defunct Peoples Redemption Party and Chairman of the foreign relations committee Junaid Mohammed has called on the northern governors not to dignify Emir of Kano statement on the conversion of mosques to schools. Junaid who said the statement is mischievous, stressed that he was not surprised at the […]