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Court stops National Assembly from taking further actions on Electoral Act

Daily Dispatch March 14, 2018

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Wednesday, stopped the National Assembly from taking further action on the Electoral Act Amendment Bill, 2018. President Muhammadu Buhari had yesterday declined putting assent to the bill pending the determination of a suit that was filed before it by

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Buhari arrives in Maiduguri

Daily Dispatch March 14, 2018

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday arrived in Maiduguri as part of the nationwide visit to troubled areas in the country. The President is billed to visit Yobe to meet with families of 110 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram insurgents at Government Girls Science and Technical School, Dapchi, on February 19. The presidential jet landed at […]

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Confusion as Bello sacks, reinstates cabinet

Daily Dispatch March 11, 2018

There was confusion in Kogi State on Sunday as Governor Yahaya Bello ordered the dissolution of his cabinet but quickly reversed the order just before the news filtered out. Sources close to the State Executive Committee meeting held on Sunday said the governor had ordered all commissioners and all the 21 local government administrators to […]

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My age places greater responsibility on me, Osinbajo says at 61

Daily Dispatch March 8, 2018

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday said he was gradually entering the class of senior citizens in the country. Osinbajo, who clocked 61, also noted that growing older places greater responsibility on him. He spoke at a brief surprise birthday event organised in his honour at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The Vice-President said, “I am grateful […]

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Vice President position: Osinbajo remains his human self- Tinubu

Daily Dispatch March 8, 2018

National leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has observed that despite occupying the exalted office of the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has remained his human self without putting on airs. In a personal letter to the Vice President on his 61st birthday, the former Lagos governor also noted that Osinbajo, […]

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EFCC re-arraign Diezani, ex-INEC officials over N264 million election bribe

Daily Dispatch March 7, 2018

Former Minister of Petroleum Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke and two former officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mr. Christian Nwosu and Mr. Tijani Bashir, have been re-arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) before the Federal High Court, Lagos. In the amended charge preferred against the defendants, Diezani was to be at