LEAD STORY 1

Independence Celebrations: IGP Orders 24 hours Surveillance Nationwide

Daily Dispatch September 30, 2020

The Inspector-General of Police, IGP M.A Adamu, has ordered increased surveillance and security deployments across the country to forestall any breach of the peace and ensure hitch-free celebrations on the occasion of the country’s 60th Independence Day celebration which takes place on

LEAD STORY 1

P & ID: CBN confirms receipt of $200m deposit to Nigeria after UK court ordered release

Daily Dispatch September 29, 2020

A commercial court in London has ordered the release of $200 million to the Nigerian Government as a deposit in the case against Process & Industrial Development (P&ID). Godwin Emefiele, Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) who confirmed the development on Tuesday, said the ruling followed the establishment of prima facie fraud against P&ID […]

LEAD STORY 1

N2.7billin divertd school fund: ICPC replies to Farouq, Humanitarian Minister

Daily Dispatch September 29, 2020

THE Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has responded to request by Sadiya Umar Farouq, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development to clarify the statement attributed to Bolaji Owasanoye, its Chairman that a total of N2.7 billion school feeding fund was diverted into private accounts. The Commission

LEAD STORY 1

Electricity tariffs: We met the mess Jonathan administration created in the power sector – Lai Mohammed

Daily Dispatch September 27, 2020

The Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed has said that the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan created the problems in the power sector inherited by the current administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. “Before we came in, the power sector had been privatised by the previous administration, but the people they sold to them […]

LEAD STORY 1

Breaking: Kidnapped ex-US soldier regains freedom in Ekiti

Daily Dispatch September 18, 2020

The abductors of a retired United States of America Army officer, Major Jide Ijadare, have set him free after four days in captivity. The gunmen, who invaded Ijadare’s palm oil factory along Ijan Ekiti-Ise Ekiti Road at Ijan in the Gbonyin Council area of Ekiti State, had shot a person dead at the factory before […]

LEAD STORY 1

British High Commissioner to Nigeria hails Buhari for signing Police Bill

Daily Dispatch September 18, 2020

The British High Commissioner to Nigeria,  Catriona Laing believes the signing of the Nigeria Police bill 2020 into law by President Muhammadu Buhari, Thursday,  is a step in the right direction. In what she described as “excellent news,” the High Commissioner tweeted, Thursday, that “The Nigeria Police Bill is a key step towards modernisation of […]