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Bandits abduct four month old baby, seven others, kill two in Zamfara

Daily Dispatch May 15, 2019

Security forces are now trailing yet to be identified gunmen who invaded Kanoma village in Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara and abducted seven persons, including a three-month-old baby along with her mother, killing two people. An eye witness, Malam Ibrahim Muhammed told the News Agency of

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Osinbajo frowns at bribes for licenses, passports, others

Daily Dispatch May 14, 2019

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says there is no reason why any Nigerian should give bribe to law enforcement agents whether for obtaining drivers licenses, passports or to clear goods at the ports. Osinbajo spoke on Tuesday in Abuja while declaring open the anti-corruption conference tagged “Collaborative Approach to Eradicating the Evils of Corruption in Nigeria.’’ […]

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Court rejects request to stay order for Adoke ,Etete, others’ arrest‎

Daily Dispatch May 13, 2019

A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has rejected an oral application for stay of execution of the order of arrest issued against former Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Mohammed Adoke, ex-Petroleum Minister, Duaziya Louya Etete a.k.a Dan Etete and some others. Justice Danlami Senchi, in a ruling, agreed with lawyer to […]

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Ambode visits Buhari, says ‘I’m wiser now’

Daily Dispatch May 13, 2019

Outgoing Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, said on Monday that he had grown wiser politically, having spent four years in office. Ambode was at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, to pay what he called, ‘Thank you visit’ to President Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari had visited Lagos last month to inaugurate some projects initiated by the Ambode administration. […]

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Central bank threatens legal action over ‘stolen’ N500 billion allegation, says money was given to states

Daily Dispatch May 13, 2019

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says N150 billion which was reported as stolen from its coffers was part of a N650 billion loan to states. The audiotape of a conversation between Godwin Emefiele, the CBN governor; Adamu Lamatek, the deputy governor of the bank, and other top officials of the bank was leaked on […]

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Only 10 Nigerian states economically viable, 17 insolvent – Report

Daily Dispatch May 13, 2019

The Economic Confidential has released the Annual States Viability Index (ASVI) which shows that seventeen (17) States are insolvent as their Internally Generated Revenues (IGR) in 2018 were far below 10% of their receipts from the Federation Account Allocations (FAA) in the same year. The index carefully and painstakingly computed proved that without the monthly […]