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Breaking: Court stops President, AGF, others from tampering with Electoral Act 2022

Daily Dispatch March 7, 2022

The Federal High Court, Abuja on Monday, stopped President Muhammadu Buhari, Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Senate President from tampering with the newly amended Electoral Act 2022. Justice Inyang Ekwo in a ruling on an ex parte application by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)

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OAU student: Court declines Adedoyin bail application

Daily Dispatch March 7, 2022

An Osun State High Court sitting in Osogbo has declined a bail application filed by the owner of Hilton Royal Hotel, Ile-Ife, Dr. Ramon Adedoyin. Adedoyin and six others arrested in connection with the death of a Master’s Degree student of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Timothy Adegoke, had been arraigned and remanded till Monday for […]

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You’ve spend $396m on refineries in less than five years, yet no fuel – SERAP tells FG

Daily Dispatch March 6, 2022

This Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to “direct the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice Mr Abubakar Malami, SAN, and appropriate anti-corruption agencies to probe the spending on the country’s four refineries, and alleged corruption and mismanagement of public money budgeted for the

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Buhari jets to London for medical check-up

Daily Dispatch March 6, 2022

President Muhammadu Buhari has departed Nigeria for London. Buhari, who departed Abuja for London on Sunday, is expected to undergo his routine medical check-up, NAN reports. The president had initially planned to embark on the trip from Nairobi, Kenya, after attending the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) at 50 in that country. The president’s spokesman, […]

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Confusion as Buhari returns to Nigeria instead of proceeding to London for his medicals

Daily Dispatch March 4, 2022

There was confusion, on Friday, when one of President Muhammadu Buhari’s aides said his principal had returned to Abuja. Bashir Ahmad, a personal aide of Buhari, set tongues wagging when he tweeted that the president, who attended a summit in Kenya, was back in the country. Buhari was expected to procced to the United Kingdom […]

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Governors decry NNPC zero contribution to federation account

Daily Dispatch March 3, 2022

The Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) has decried the zero contribution of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Ltd. to the Federation Account in recent months. Dr Kayode Fayemi, Chairman, NGF and Ekiti State Governor, made this known at the Governors’ Forum on Natural Energy, Oil and Gas at the fifth Nigeria International Energy Summit (NIES) […]