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Watch Your Ultrances: Sultan Warns Religious Leader

Daily Dispatch January 22, 2017

Watch Your Ultrances: Sultan Warns Religious Leader The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, has advised religious leaders to disdain from making inciting statements capable of igniting trouble among Nigerians. Abubakar made the call at the Abdullahi Fodio award presentation and book launch

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Over 170 feared dead in Nigerian Air Force misfired bombs – MSF

Daily Dispatch January 20, 2017

Médecins Sans Frontières has said there are fears that over 170 persons must have died in the attack on the Internally Displaced Persons camp in Rann, Borno State by a jet of the Nigerian Air Force. However, the MSF said it has only been able to confirm 90 dead. In a statement on its website, […]

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IPOB Solidarity Rally For Trump urns Violent, 11 Feared Killed

Daily Dispatch January 20, 2017

No fewer than eleven (11) people were feared dead during solidarity rally by the indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, for new US President, Donald Trump in Port-Harcourt, as it turned violent. In a statement by Media and Publicity ‎secretary of IPOB, Mr. Emma Powerful, alleged that the group was attacked by a combined team of […]

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Leave Office Before Noon or Be Force Out- ECOWAS Leaders Tells Jammeh

Daily Dispatch January 20, 2017

West African leaders have given Yahya Jammeh a final opportunity to relinquish power after Senegalese troops entered The Gambia. Mr Jammeh has been given until noon on Friday to leave office or be forced out by UN-backed regional forces. Troops have been told to halt their advance until the deadline passes. The Economic Community of […]

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UN, AU, ECOWAS Congratulate arrow

Daily Dispatch January 19, 2017

The ECOWAS Commission, African Union and United Nations have congratulated the President of the Republic of The Gambia, Mr Adama Barrow, on the occasion of his swearing-in and assumption of office. This is following his victory at the presidential election of December 1, 2016 and in accordance with the Constitution of the Republic of The […]

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Constituted Authority: Ajumobi Gets 7 days Ultimatum To Apologise To LAUTECH Students

Daily Dispatch January 19, 2017

Following a video showing altercation between the Oyo state governor Abiola Ajumobi and the protesting students of Ladoke Akintola University (LAUTECH), a Civil Society organisation on the platform of Citizens Action to Take Back Nigeria (CATBAN), has given the governor seven days ultimatum to apologise for his ’embarrassing comments.’ A statement signed in