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Senate alleges N16bn padding of 2022 budget

Daily Dispatch November 23, 2021

The Senate Committee on Environment has said it had discovered some N16 billion included in the 2022 budget of the Ministry of Environment for servicing of debts believed to have been collected by state governments. Chairman of the panel, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, made the revelation during the

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Senate President meets Buhari, says NASS to engage stakeholders on amended Electoral Bill

Daily Dispatch November 23, 2021

Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, says there are strong indications that President Muhammadu Buhari would soon sign the recently-passed Electoral Amendment Bill 2021 into law. Lawan gave the hope while fielding questions from State House correspondents, after a closed-door meeting with the president on Monday in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Speaker

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EndSARS: ‘Even goats have owners’ – Lai Mohammed queries absence of victims’ family members

Daily Dispatch November 23, 2021

The Federal Government has queried the Lagos State judicial panel over its report claiming that family members of those killed during the EndSARS protest are afraid to speak. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, in a statement on Tuesday, urged the Judicial Panel to convince anyone that the names of some casualties of […]

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Nigerian Air Traffic Controllers threaten strike after colleague’s death

Daily Dispatch November 23, 2021

Nigerian Air Traffic Controllers’ Association has lamented poor working conditions and threatened industrial action following the death of their colleague, Aniekan Effiong Inuk, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. The group in a statement jointly signed on Tuesday by their President and Secretary, Abayomi Agoro and Agbonlahor Felix said in the last two

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Insecurity: Nigerians indebted to armed forces for sacrifices made, says Lawan

Daily Dispatch November 22, 2021

President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has said that the Armed Forces deserve support from Nigerians for the sacrifices made in tackling various forms of insecurity across parts of the country. Lawan made this known on Monday while receiving a delegation of the 2022 Armed Forces Decorations team in his office in a Abuja. According […]

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Amnesty: Nnamdi Kanu can’t be trusted-ACF tells Buhari

Daily Dispatch November 22, 2021

The Arewa Consultative Forum has said that the detained leader of the proscribed secessionist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, cannot be trusted and should not be granted amnesty. The pan-Northern socio-political organisation said Kanu cannot be trusted because he once jumped bail in 2017 and fled the country. ACF, therefore, urged the […]