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Breaking: Senate confirms Owasanoye as ICPC chairman

Daily Dispatch December 20, 2018

The Senate on Thursday confirmed the appointment of Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye as Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission. Also confirmed were eight others as members of the ICPC board. They are Grace Chinda from Delta State Okolo Titus (Enugu State),

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Atiku Abubakar: Latest unemployment report catastrophic

Daily Dispatch December 19, 2018

The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has described the unemployment report released on Wednesday by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) as not just terrible, but catastrophic. Atiku in a statement Wednesday by his media aide, Paul Ibe, said that the latest report showed that under the All Progressives Congress […]

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Ogun 2019: Appeal Court nullifies order recognising candidates’ list of Kashamu faction

Daily Dispatch December 18, 2018

The Court of Appeal in Ibadan on Tuesday set aside a court order which directed INEC to recognise the list of candidates submitted for the 2019 general elections by a faction of Ogun PDP loyal to Senator Buruji Kashamu. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Justice Shittu Abubakar of the Federal High Court Abeokuta had, on […]

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AU slams Europe for not signing migration pact

Daily Dispatch December 18, 2018

African Union (AU) Commission chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat has expressed disappointment at the failure of some European countries to sign a recent global compact that will help manage migration around the world. The topic of migration overshadowed Tuesday’s European Union and AU summit on digital co-operation as the host – the right-wing government of Austria […]

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Strike: Presidency, lawmakers insist Muhammadu Buhari will present 2019 budget on Wednesday

Daily Dispatch December 18, 2018

The Presidency and federal lawmakers have insisted that the presentation of the 2019 budget presentation by President Muhammadu Buhari as scheduled will still hold on Wednesday despite the ongoing strike of the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria. The Senior Special Assistant on National Assembly Matters (Senate) to the President, Senator Ita Enang, made this known

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2019: Nine new political parties join opposition coalition CUPP

Daily Dispatch December 17, 2018

… Vow to defeat Buhari with Opposition consensus candidate Atiku Abubakar. …Opposition coalition rank swells to over 50 parties and still growing. The plan by the opposition coalition CUPP to defeat President Buhari at the 2019 Polls received a major boost today when Nine Political Parties joined the already existing 44 parties in the coalition […]