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ex-Presidents, Olusegun Obasanjo, Goodluck Jonathan shun Buhari’s inauguration

Daily Dispatch May 29, 2019

Ex-Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan are absent at Eagle Square, Abuja, where President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo are taking oath of office for their second term. The former presidents had endorsed Atiku Abubkar, presidential candidate of the Peoples

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Presidential Inauguration: 2,000 FRSC personnel to control traffic

Daily Dispatch May 28, 2019

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) says it has deployed no fewer than 2,000 personnel and special marshals for the Presidential Inauguration holding on Wednesday. Mr Gora Wobin, FRSC Sector Commander in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Tuesday. NAN […]

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Breaking: Ganduje declares assets – CCB

Daily Dispatch May 28, 2019

The Code of Conduct Bureau in Kano state has reminded all outgoing elected and appointed political office holders declare their assets in line with the provision of the law or face the wrath of the law. The CCB State Director, Umar Saulawa, gave the order in a statement he signed and made available to News […]

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Election tribunal refuses to strike out petition against Ekweremadu’s election

Daily Dispatch May 27, 2019

The National and State Assembly Elections Petition Tribunal in Enugu State on Monday refuse an application filed  by the Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP) to strikeout the petition challenging the re-election of  Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu. The petitioner, Mrs Juliet Ibekaku-Nwagwu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), is challenging the results of […]

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Obasanjo’s utterance on Fulanisation, Islamisation inciting, says Don

Daily Dispatch May 26, 2019

A professor of Islamic studies at the Kwara State University (KWASU) Sulaiman Jamiu has described the statement credited to former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Fulanisation of Nigeria and Islamisation of Africa as in inciting. Prof Jamiu, who is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academics) of the university, said this in Ilorin at Ramadan lecture organized by the […]

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‘We don’t agree sometimes, but I’m proud of you’ – Buhari hails Edwin Clark at 84

Daily Dispatch May 25, 2019

President Muhammadu Buhari has extolled the virtues of Nigeria’s former Information Minister, Chief Edwin Clark, on the occasion of his 84th birthday anniversary.  In his tribute to Chief Clark, who served as Information Minister during the regime of General Yakubu Gowon, President Buhari noted that “even if you don’t agree with the elder statesman sometimes, […]