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Stop giving preferential scores to Northern students, el-Rufai tells JAMB

Daily Dispatch September 6, 2021

Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai, has urged the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board to stop giving “preferential scores” to students in Northern Nigeria who sit for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. He stated this on Monday as a guest on Channels Television’s

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Buhari seeks Rotary Club’s support for vaccination drive

Daily Dispatch September 6, 2021

President Muhammadu Buhari Monday in Abuja said the Federal Government will continue drawing from the expertise, partnership and consistency learnt from the eradication of Polio in the country to strengthen the health sector. President Buhari, who received Rotary International President, Mr. Shekhar Mehta and some officials, at the State House, thanked the organization for

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State of the Nation: Nweze, Akubueze, Falana task Christian faithful on selection of candidates for elective offices

Daily Dispatch September 6, 2021

Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, Chima Nweze has said that if the constitutional provisions dealing with disqualification for elective offices are properly utilised, the number of misfits vying for political offices in Nigeria would be reduced drastically Justice Nweze stated this in Abuja during the inaugural ceremony of Old Seminarians Association of Nigeria […]

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Just in: CJN demands court records of all conflicting orders

Daily Dispatch September 5, 2021

The Chief Justice of Nigeria and Chairman National Judicial Council (CJN), Justice Tanko Muhammad has demanded the records of proceedings in all the suits on which conflicting exparte orders were given. Spokesperson of the National Judicial Council, Soji Oye confirmed to Channels Television that the memo was indeed sent out from the office of the […]

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Just in: INEC redeploys 5 RECs, 4 directors

Daily Dispatch September 5, 2021

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has redeployed five state Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs). INEC disclosed this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja by Mr Festus Okoye, its National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee. Okoye said that those affected included Mr Olusegun Agbaje, who was redeployed from Osun to Ogun

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Identifying grazing routes is key to ending farm/herder clashes – Kebbi Governor

Daily Dispatch September 3, 2021

Kebbi State Governor Atiku Bagudu on Thursday argued that mapping out grazing routes will help to identify the scale of the herder-farmer crisis. President Muhammadu Buhari recently ordered a committee to review 368 grazing sites across 25 states in the country to determine the levels of encroachment. Critics have faulted the President’s directive, noting that […]