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SERAP sues Buhari over $25bn overdrafts taken from CBN

Daily Dispatch July 4, 2021

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit, asking the court “to compel President Muhammadu Buhari to disclose spending details of the overdrafts and loans obtained from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) since May 29, 2015, including the projects on which the

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PDP leaders storm NASS to protest Onochie’s nomination as INEC commissioner

Daily Dispatch June 30, 2021

Leaders of the main opposition party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), on Wednesday stormed the National Assembly in protest. The leaders are demanding the immediate reversal of President Muhammadu Buhari’s nomination of Lauretta Onochie as National Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Lauretta Onochie is currently the media aide to

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Former APGA National Secretary joins APC with Matawalle

Daily Dispatch June 29, 2021

The Former National Secretary of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), Dr Sani Shinkafi, says he has defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) to support Gov. Bello Matawalle to rebuild Zamfara. Shinkafi who was the APGA governorship candidate at the 2019 general elections in Zamfara, disclosed this at a news conference in Gusau on […]

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Senate directs committee to submit N895bn supplementary budget report on Wednesday

Daily Dispatch June 29, 2021

Senate President Ahmad Lawan, on Tuesday, directed the Senate Committee on Appropriations to submit report on the N895billion Supplementary Budget unfailingly on Wednesday. The directive by Lawan followed a request by Chairman Senate Committee on Appropriations, Barau Jibrin, for more time to enable the panel conclude its work. Lawan noted that it is unnecessary for […]

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Troops kill 12 Boko Haram terrorists, recover gun trucks, arms

Daily Dispatch June 28, 2021

The Nigeria Army Monday said it killed 12 Boko Haram terrorists in a failed attack. The Director, Army Public Relation, Brig. Gen. Onyeama Nwanchukwu in a statement circulated to the media disclosed that the Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorist tried to attack a Forward Operation Base, at Bula Yobe in Borno State where they met their waterloo. […]

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Auditor- General of the Federation Raises Multiple Queries To NPA over Multibilion Naira Financial Irregularities

Daily Dispatch June 26, 2021

…….. Management, Transportation Minister To Appear Before Reps C’ttee On July 8 for Defence The office of the Auditor-General of the Federation, (AuGF) has uncovered Multibilion Naira Financial Irregularities In the transactions of the Nigerian Poets Authority NPA in its audited 2017 consolidated and separate financial statement. Consequently the office had raised a