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Breaking: Lawan announces principal officers for the Senate

Daily Dispatch July 2, 2019

The President of the Senate,  Ahmad Lawan, on Tuesday, announced the list of principal officers sent to him by the leadership of the All Progressives Party and the Peoples Democratic Party. Lawan, at the resumption of plenary, named Senator Abdullahi Yahaya as Senate Leader and Ajayi Boroffice

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Atiku, PDP urges Supreme Court to allow them access to INEC server

Daily Dispatch July 1, 2019

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate in the 2019 presidential election, Atiku Abubakar, have told the Supreme Court to allow them access to a server purportedly used by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to transmit Nigeria’s 2019 presidential election results. This followed the rejection of the request at the Presidential Election

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Breaking: Pastor Modele Fatoyinbo breaks silence, says her husband is not a rapist

Daily Dispatch June 30, 2019

Pastor Modele Fatoyinbo, wife of the global senior pastor of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA), on Sunday, ministering at the church service described the rape allegation against her husband as false. During her ministration which was broadcast to the congregation at the Lagos branch of the church in Ikeja, Lagos, Pastor Modele, who refuted […]

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Kogi: Faleke backs out promises not to support anyone who helped in truncating the aspiration of the Okun nation

Daily Dispatch June 28, 2019

Member of the House of Representatives, Hon James Abiodun Faleke, has declined offers from the people of Kogi West Senatorial district to contest the governorship ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the forthcoming governorship election. Instead, he asked the people to choose a candidate with the interest of the area at heart. Speaking […]

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Court to Ofili Ajumogobia: You’re no longer a judicial officer

Daily Dispatch June 28, 2019

A Federal High Court in Lagos Friday held that President Muhammadu Buhari dismissed Mrs. Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia as a judicial officer on November 7, 2018. Justice Mohammed Rilwan Aikawa held that, thus, Ofili-Ajumogobia cannot – by claiming that she is a judge – stall her trial for alleged money laundering. The charge was brought against her […]

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Nigerian man dies after hunger strike in Japan detention centre

Daily Dispatch June 28, 2019

A Nigerian man died in a Japanese immigration detention centre this week, an official said on Thursday, bringing to an end a hunger strike an activist group said was intended to protest against his being held for more than three years. It was the 15th death since 2006 in a system widely criticized over medical […]