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IPPIS: House of Reps to intervene in FG, ASUU crisis

Daily Dispatch November 28, 2019

The House of Representatives has resolved to intervene in the crisis between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities over the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System. The House resolved to probe into the crisis following the unanimous adoption of a motion by

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Mompha’s accomplices sent to prison for alleged $7,069,000, €80,000 internet fraud

Daily Dispatch November 28, 2019

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Lagos Zonal Office on Thursday arraigned the duo of Kayode Phillip and Hamza Koudeih before Justice Muslim S. Hassan of the Federal High Court, sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos on a 25-count charge bordering on conspiracy and money laundering.The defendants, who are high-valued targets in Organized Cyber Syndicate Network, were […]

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No need for hate speech bill, there are enough laws – Afe Babalola

Daily Dispatch November 27, 2019

Chief Afe Babalola (SAN), on Wednesday, described the hate speech bill as a slide to dictatorship and that there was no need for extra laws in Nigeria. Babalola, founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti (ABUAD), said it was needless and unwarranted for anyone to contemplate another law to deal with false publications when there […]

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Soyinka reacts to media distortions of his 2014 experience with cancer

Daily Dispatch November 27, 2019

Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has lamented distortions and media misconception of a BBC feature programme in which his 2014 experience with cancer was featured. Soyinka, in a statement on Wednesday, said he had not seen the final presentation of a BBC feature programme on Health Awareness in which his 2014 experience with cancer was featured, […]

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Two village heads, three others killed as gunmen attack Taraba villages

Daily Dispatch November 27, 2019

At least five people have been killed after gunmen invaded communities in Karim Lamido local government area of Taraba state. Those killed are two village heads, the chairman of a vigilante group and two other persons. The chairman of the council told channels television correspondent in Taraba that about 30 gunmen invaded two communities and […]

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Dino Melaye submits fresh petition against conduct of Kogi election

Daily Dispatch November 27, 2019

One of the candidates in Saturday’s supplementary election for the Kogi West Senatorial seat, Senator Dino Melaye of the PDP is not happy with the plans of the electoral umpire (INEC) and wants the exercise to be cancelled over what he describes as intimidation of voters and violence in the first conduct of the poll. […]