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AfDB approves $27m to boost African Union’s COVID-19 Response Initiative

Daily Dispatch July 28, 2020

The African Development Bank has approved $27.4 million in grants to boost the African Union’s (AU) efforts to mobilize continental response to curb the COVID-19 pandemic. The approval comes on the heels of a meeting of the extended Bureau of the AU Conference of Heads of State and Government

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DHQ warns officers, soldiers against mutiny, revolution

Daily Dispatch July 27, 2020

The Defence Headquarters has warned soldiers and officers not to engage in mutiny or revolt against constituted civil authorities. The DHQ restated that all officers and men of the Nigerian Military swore to an oath of allegiance to be totally loyal to the civil authority of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and protect the constitution. […]

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Southern Kaduna: IGP orders full enforcement of curfew

Daily Dispatch July 27, 2020

The Inspector General of Police, IGP Mohammed Adamu has ordered the Commissioner of Police (CP), to ensure full enforcement of the curfew imposed by the Kaduna State Government in parts of Southern Kaduna. This is part of efforts at restoring law and order in parts of Southern Kaduna affected by recent violence and other security […]

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Why Dogara demps PDP- Walid Jibrin

Daily Dispatch July 27, 2020

The Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party, Walid Jibrin, has said the 2023 political ambition of former House of Representatives Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, was responsible for his exit from the PDP. Daily Dispatch had reported that Dogara dumped the PDP to join the All Progressives Congress last week. Commenting on […]

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Insecurity: Nigeria is safer, Buratai assures

Daily Dispatch July 27, 2020

Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai, has said that Nigeria is safer now than it was five years ago. He made the remarks on Sunday during a sit-out with soldiers Wounded In Action (WIA), who are receiving treatment at the 44 Nigerian Army Reference Hospital, Kaduna. Buratai assured that their efforts in […]

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Guber election: PDP, Wike importing thugs into Edo for violence – APC

Daily Dispatch July 26, 2020

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and it’s Rivers state governor Nyesom Wike, of importing thugs into Edo state to cause violence ahead of the forthcoming governorship election. The APC,  however, condemned reports of the destruction of property and violence allegedly meted on hapless victims during