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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

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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 […]

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Why did you reduce my age? Buhari asks reporter

Daily Dispatch December 17, 2018

President Muhammadu Buhari, who marked his 76th birthday on Monday, jokingly ‘protested’ when a reporter mistakenly reduced his age by one year. “Why would you reduce my age by one?’’ the President queried the reporter when he fielded questions in both English and Hausa languages from State House correspondents after a brief ceremony at the […]

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Buhari: Retract your statement or risk running NEF as a one-man show- ex Senate President replies Ango Abdullahi

Daily Dispatch December 12, 2018

Former Senate President, Ameh Ebute, has replied the convener of Northern Elders’ Forum, NEF, Professor Ango Abdullahi, on his recent assertion that the region will not vote for President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 presidential election. Abdullahi, a former Vice Chancellor of the Ahmadu Bello University, had while speaking to newsmen in Zaria as part […]

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Buhari mourns Gen. Salihu Ibrahim, saying his death devastating

Daily Dispatch December 11, 2018

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed sadness over the demise of retired Lt. Gen. Salihu Ibrahim, former Chief of Army Staff (COAS) from 1990 to 1993. Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, in a statement in Abuja, said President Buhari condoled with the family, the government and the […]