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Senate demands highest penalty for rapists, decries suicide rate

Daily Dispatch July 9, 2019

The Senate has demanded the highest penalty for rapists in the country, with a specific focus on cases involving minors. This was part of the resolutions reached during Tuesday’s plenary in the Upper Chamber of the National Assembly in Abuja. Senator Rose Okoh who represents Cross River North

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Lawan urges journalists to deepen development reporting

Daily Dispatch July 8, 2019

The President of the Senate, Dr Ahmad Lawan, has urged Nigerian journalists to deepen reporting on development journalism, given the challenges of development in Nigeria and other African countries. Lawan made the call in Abuja on Monday, when he inaugurated the West African Parliamentary Press Corps (WAPPC). Represented by the Deputy President of the Senate, […]

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Asiwaju Tinubu: Let’s use our diversity for prosperity

Daily Dispatch July 8, 2019

All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader, Sen. Bola Tinubu, on Monday urged Nigerians to recognise the value of diversity and use it for the prosperity of the country. Tinubu made the call at a public presentation of a book entitled: ‘Battlelines: Adventures in Journalism and Politics’, a memoir of Chief Olusegun Osoba. The book is […]

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Buhari returns from Niamey

Daily Dispatch July 8, 2019

President Muhammadu Buhari has returned to Abuja after attending the 12th Extraordinary Summit of the African Union in Niamey, Niger Republic. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the presidential aircraft, conveying the president and some members of his entourage landed at the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja at about […]

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Boko Haram, ISWAP recruited 8000 kids since 2009 – UNODC

Daily Dispatch July 8, 2019

According to a statement by United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes, (UNODC), no fewer than 8000 children have been recruited by Boko Haram and Islamic State in West Africa (ISWAP) since 2009 in the North. “The groups were using them as combatants and non-combatants, raping and forcing girls to marry as well as committing other […]

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Ganduje to establish 400-bed hospitals in new Emirates’ Hqs

Daily Dispatch July 7, 2019

Kano state, governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, said his administration would soon begin the upgrade of general hospitals located within the headquarters of each of the four newly created Emirates to 400 beds capacity. Ganduje who disclosed the proposed plan when he paid a condolence visit to the Emir of Rano, Alhaji (Dr) Tafida Abubakar (Autan […]