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Breaking: Police Service Commission asks one of the eight newly approved DIGs to proceed on compulsory leave

Daily Dispatch January 29, 2019

The Police Service Commission has approved a new Management Team for the Nigeria Police Force with the appointment of eight Deputy Inspectors-General of Police based on zonal representation with effect from January 28, 2019. One of the new DIGs, Usman Yakubu, was, however, directed to proceed

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2019 election: NGF pledges to support security agencies

Daily Dispatch January 29, 2019

The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has pledged its support to security agencies to ensure that the forthcoming election is conducted in a conducive atmosphere. NGF Chairman and Gov. Abdul’aziz Yari of Zamfara stated this while reading the communiqué issued at the end of the forum’s emergency meeting on Tuesday in Abuja. Yari said the meeting […]

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President Buhari has broken into and desecrated Supreme Court – Bishop Kukah

Daily Dispatch January 29, 2019

Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, on Tuesday said President Muhammadu Buhari’s government has been acting in gross disobedience to court orders with flagrant disregard to rule of law while launching attacks on the media. Kukah who made this assertion in a lecture delivered at the 70th Anniversary of the Nigerian […]

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Buhari wants to head all the three arms of Government- Secondus

Daily Dispatch January 28, 2019

……..warns that if he fails to reverse suspension of Onnoghen, God will do something. The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus has said that President Muhammadu Buhari’s desire is to head all the three arms of government and turn a full blown dictator. Prince Secondus told jubilant party supporters at […]

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Onnoghen: FG says it did not refer the case to NJC b’cos the ‘allegations against the CJN are not within the purview of the council

Daily Dispatch January 28, 2019

The Federal Government says allegations of breach of the Code of Conduct for Public Officers levied against the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, are not within the purview of the National Judicial Council (NJC). The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who gave the explanation at a media briefing […]

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Onnoghen: 25 lawyers drag President Buhari to court

Daily Dispatch January 28, 2019

Twenty Five constitutional lawyers, on Monday, dragged President Muhammadu Buhari before the Federal High Court in Abuja to challenge what they termed as illegal suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Walter Onnoghen. The suit came on a day the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, sitting in Abuja, okayed indefinite adjournment of proceedings […]