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Buhari Health: Forcing President To Talk, You’re Infringing On His Rights-Adesina

Daily Dispatch January 26, 2017

The Presidency on Thursday insisted that despite the rumour making the round on President Muhammadu Buhari‘s state of health, the President is not ill.  The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, said this in an interview with CNBC Africa, which was monitored

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Boko Haram: No Peace Until……Lai Mohammed

Daily Dispatch January 26, 2017

The Federal Government has disclosed that the country cannot have peace until it totally win war against Boko Haram which has displaced over twenty (20) million people. It also disclosed that the food crisis caused by the Boko Haram insurgency in the North East might last for long, stressing that farmers in the North East […]

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UK Court to Rule if Nigeria Shell Claims Can Proceed

Daily Dispatch January 26, 2017

More than 40,000 Nigerians will on Thursday discover if London’s High Court can rule on their pollution claims against Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell over spills in the Niger Delta. The Guardian report that lawyers for the claimants are demanding action from Shell to clean up spills that have devastated their communities for decades, but the […]

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President’s Death Rumour: Leave Me Out of It- Saraki

Daily Dispatch January 26, 2017

The Senate President Bukola Saraki has condemned the attempt by some section of the media to drag him into the death rumour of President Muhammadu Buhari. Saraki advised those peddling such news not to involve him in the matter. In a statement issued by his Special Adviser on media Yusuf Olaniyonu Saraki said he had […]

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Update: Meeting With Governors Has Nothing To Do With President’s Health- Lai Mohammed

Daily Dispatch January 26, 2017

The Federal Government has allayed the fears of Nigeria over the state of the health of President Muhammadu Buhari, saying the meeting with the governors has nothing to do with president’s health. The 36 state governors are currently meeting with federal government in Abuja, it was rumoured that the meeting was called as a result […]

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Stop Playing God, Northern Youths Warns Obasanjo

Daily Dispatch January 25, 2017

A youth group, the Northern Progressives Youth Initiative has asked former President Olusegun Obasanjo to stop playing God over his recent pronouncement that the South-East region will produce the country’s president in 2019. The group in a statement signed by its Secretary-General, Mallam Gazali Abdullahi said that the statement credited to the former president was […]