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$500m: SERAP asks World Bank to publish documents on funded electricity projects

Daily Dispatch February 7, 2021

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the World Bank President Mr David Malpass “to exercise the Bank’s prerogative to release archival records and documents relating to spending on all approved funds to improve access to electricity in Nigeria between 1999 and

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Cryptocurrency Ban: Reduce Youth Unemployment, Don’t Add To It, Atiku Warns Buhari

Daily Dispatch February 6, 2021

Former Vice president of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has condemned the ban placed on cryptocurrency transactions in Nigeria by the federal government led by President Muhammdu Buhari warning that urgent steps must be taken to opening up the economy and create more jobs for the teeming Nigerian Youths as unemployment remains one challenge facing the […]

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ECOWAS Court fixes April 22 to hear case of herdsmen killings

Daily Dispatch February 5, 2021

By Oluchi Ihediuche The ECOWAS Court of Justice, Abuja has fixed April 22, 2021, to deliver judgment in a case of killings, raping, maiming of Nigerians and destruction of property across Nigeria by suspected herdsmen. The court heard arguments in the case brought by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project SERAP against the Federal Government on […]

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2023: INEC set to create More polling units across Nigeria

Daily Dispatch February 4, 2021

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has concluded arrangements to establish more polling units across the federation, ahead of the 2023 general elections. The electoral body has also vowed that it will relocate existing polling units situated in shrines, homes of politicians, local government secretariats or secret locations that most times gives

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Herdsmen’s eviction: northern govs call for calm, warn against provocative utterances

Daily Dispatch February 4, 2021

The Northern governors have expressed concern over the lingering reports that herdsmen belonging to a particular ethnic group are being targeted in some parts of the South-East and South-West leading to loss of lives and properties. Chairman of the Forum and Plateau State Governor Simon Lalong, in a statement in Jos on Thursday, recalled the […]

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Maina’s Son, Faisal, escapes to US

Daily Dispatch February 4, 2021

Faisal Maina, the son of Abdulrasheed Maina, former Chairman, defunct Pension Reformed Task Team (PRTT), has fled to the United States of America (USA), the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has said. EFCC’s counsel, Mohammed Abubakar, informed Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja about the situation on Thursday. According to Abubakar, […]