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Audit Queries: Reps Summon Finance Minister, DG Budget over Duty Waivers to Companies

Daily Dispatch March 1, 2021

……..Probe Saipem Contracting, Crocodile Matchet, Others The House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts on Monday summoned the Minister of Finance Zainab Ahmed, Director-General Budget Office of the federation Ben Akabueze and other officials of the Ministry of Finance to shed lights

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Breaking: Court dismisses PDP’s suit against Senator Abiru

Daily Dispatch March 1, 2021

A Federal High Court in Lagos has dismissed the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP)’s suit seeking to disqualify Senator Adetokunbo Abiru of the All Progressives Congress (APC) from continuing to represent Lagos East Senatorial District. Justice Chuka Obiozor, in a five-hour judgment, upheld the argument canvassed by Abiru’s lawyer, Mr Kemi Pinheiro, SAN, that the PDP’s […]

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Obasanjo meets Kogi gov, seeks youths involvement in governance

Daily Dispatch February 28, 2021

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has urged the Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, to sustain his efforts in providing security in his state. Ex-President Obasanjo gave the advice after a closed-door meeting with the governor on Sunday in Abuja. A statement issued late Sunday night by the governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Mohammed Onogwu, said his […]

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Zamfara bandits I met not responsible for school girls abduction – Gumi

Daily Dispatch February 26, 2021

Islamic scholar Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has said abductors of the Zamfara schoolgirls were not the bandits he recently engaged with in Zamfara forests. Bandits stormed Government Secondary School Jangebe in Talata Mafara Local Government Area around 1am Friday and abducted over 300 female students. Zamfara Commissioner of Security and Home Affairs, Alhaji Abubakar Dauran,

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Zamfara abduction violation of children’s rights – UNICEF

Daily Dispatch February 26, 2021

The United Nations Children Fund on Friday expressed concern over the abduction of over 300 students at the Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe in Talata Mafara Local Government Area of Zamfara State, describing it as “a gross violation of children’s rights.” The UNICEF Country Representative in Nigeria, Peter Hawkins, in a statement condemned the attack […]

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Orji Uzor Kalu in closed-door meeting with IBB in Minna

Daily Dispatch February 25, 2021

Senator Orji Uzor Kalu on Thursday afternoon visited the former military President, General Ibrahim Badomosi Babangida. Kalu who is currently in a closed door meeting with the former leader was earlier hosted by the Niger State Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello.