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Ambassador To Buhari: You Have Betrayed Democracy, Promoted Genocide

Daily Dispatch January 7, 2018

Former Nigerian High Commissioner to Canada, Ambassador Iyorwuese Hagher, has expressed regrets that President Muhammadu Buhari has allowed the genocide in the Middle Belt to go on unimpeded, thus betraying his campaign promise to Nigerians that his government ‘‘will always act in time and not

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Benue killings: Northern Elders Forum disowns Unongo on Atiku

Daily Dispatch January 7, 2018

Northern elders, Sunday, disowned their chairman, Chief Paul Unongo, on his position that former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, is the chief financier of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association, which is frontally opposed to anti-open Grazing legislation in Benue State and reportedly behind the killings in the state. Paul Unongo A member of the NEF, […]

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Ambazonia State: DSS arrests seven Camroonians leading secession agitation

Daily Dispatch January 7, 2018

Nigeria has apprehended members of a group leading a separatist movement in Cameroon. The Movement for the independence of Southern Cameroonians is clamouring for an independent Ambazonia State, which seeks to break away from the domination of the French-speaking Cameroon. Seven of its leaders of were arrested by the Department of State Services on Friday […]

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APC distances self from Buhari’s controversial board appointments

Daily Dispatch January 7, 2018

The national chairman of the All Progressive Congress, APC, John Oyegun, has said the party should not be blamed for the controversy that trailed President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent board appointments as it was not fully involved in the process.   The chairman, while speaking with journalists on Saturday in Abuja, said the appointments had caused […]

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Donors raise $860m in emergency aid for Northeast Nigeria, Lake Chad Basin

Daily Dispatch January 3, 2018

Donor countries who met in Oslo raised 869 million dollars (634 million euros) in emergency aid to address the humanitarian woes caused by Boko Haram terrorists in Northeast Nigeria and the Lake Chad Basin. NAN reports that the UN says the eight-year conflict between the Nigerian army and Boko Haram militants has devastated the region. […]

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Breaking: LASG sealed off hotel, filling station and event centre belonging to suspected Badoo kingpin

Daily Dispatch January 3, 2018

The Lagos State Government on Wednesday sealed off a Petrol Filling Station, an Hotel and Event Centre belonging to a suspected Badoo cult kingpin, Alhaji Alaka Abayomi Kamal. The structures, situated along Ijebu-Ode-Itoikin Road in Sabo area of Ikorodu were sealed for violating the State’s Urban and Regional Planning Law of 2010. The Police, had […]