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My stolen mandate has been recovered – Uzodinma

Daily Dispatch January 14, 2020

The governor-elect of Imo State, Senator Hope Uzodinma, has said that his stolen mandate has been recovered by the Supreme Court. Uzodinma, who spoke to our correspondent through his spokesperson, Declan Emelumba, shortly after the apex court declared him the duly elected governor of the state

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Imam Suspended For Marrying Fellow Man

Daily Dispatch January 14, 2020

A Ugandan Imam has been suspended for getting married to a fellow man. According to Daily Monitor, a Ugandan online news outlet, Sheikh Mohammed Mutumba of Kyampisi Masjid Noor mosque in Kayunga District tied the knot with his ‘wife’ Ms Swabullah Nabukeera two weeks ago after they met in the same mosque. However, the couple […]

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Amotekun: Action, threat to National security – Labour leader tells S/W Govs

Daily Dispatch January 13, 2020

A National Executive Council, NEC member of the Nigeria Labor Congress, NLC and Vice President of the Industrial Global Union, Comrade Issa Aremu, at the weekend condemned the action of South-West Governors over the launching of their own security outfit against the National constitution that made security issues an exclusive list. Comrade Aremu spoke in […]

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Omo-Agege speaks on being convicted in US

Daily Dispatch January 13, 2020

Nigeria’s Deputy Senate President, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, on Monday described the conviction allegation by a Delta-based youth group as “unscrupulous band of mischief makers”, for saying that he had been convicted in a California Court in the past. Reacting through a statement, which was issued by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity Yomi Odunuga, […]

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EFCC ‘blocks’ Shehu Sani accounts

Daily Dispatch January 12, 2020

An aide to former Nigerian lawmaker Shehu Sani on Sunday said that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has blocked his principal’s bank accounts. Suleiman Ahmed, senior special adviser to Sani in a statement said the Nigerian anti-graft agency “forced (Sani) to declare his assets”. He questioned EFCC’s professionalism in handling his principal’s case, […]

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Obasanjo, Osinbajo, Tinubu meet in Lagos

Daily Dispatch January 12, 2020

Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, met in Lagos on Saturday. They graced the 80th birthday celebration of Chief Rasaq Okoya, founder of Eleganza group of companies. Other in attendance were Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu; Minister of Information and Culture,