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This 23-year-old Nigerian is creating a digital collection of African stories for children in different languages

Daily Dispatch August 22, 2020

When Dominic Onyekachi set out to read his 6-year-old niece a story, he did not anticipate that the simple task would lead him to create a digital collection of African stories. After going through her mini library, he found that many of her books were foreign and had very little African

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Senate Grills DPR Over N44.5bn Remittance Out Of N2.4trn Generated

Daily Dispatch August 21, 2020

The upper chamber of the National Assembly on Friday grilled officials of Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) over the meagre remittance of N44.5billion into the Consolidated Revenue Fund in 2019 out of N2.4 trillion generated. This is even as alleged illnesses stalled the appearance of heads of many of the other revenue generating agencies before […]

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Your ambition not worth blood of Edo People – Iyamu tells Obaseki

Daily Dispatch August 21, 2020

The Campaign Council of Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, the Edo State All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship flagbearer, has told the state governor and People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Godwin Obaseki that his second term ambition is not worth the blood and life of citizens of the state. Accusing the governor of been desperate of winning the […]

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Annual vacation: House leadership suspends all committee hearing

Daily Dispatch August 20, 2020

The leadership of House of Representatives has suspended all investigative and committee hearings till after resumption from annual vacation. The House asked all Committee members to go home and observe the annual vacation. Plenary is expected to resume in the Lower Chambers on September 15. Various Committees of the House with backlog of investigations and […]

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Nigeria to get 2bn COVID-19 vaccine doses -FG

Daily Dispatch August 20, 2020

The Federal Government says it is working with global health and research organisations who are developing COVID-19 vaccines. The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, made this known in Abuja on Thursday during a briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19. He also said Nigeria was planning with the organisations for the allocation of […]

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FG approves local production of bitumen to boost job creation, conserve FOREX

Daily Dispatch August 20, 2020

The Federal Government has approved local production of bitumen  and other construction materials that are being imported currently for construction of roads across the country. The Federal Executive Council (FEC), which gave the approvals sequel to a memorandum presented to it by the Minister of Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola SAN, also directed the […]