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Ministers offer prayers as Buhari presides over FEC meeting

Daily Dispatch August 30, 2017

Ministers, at the commencement of the Federal Executive Council meeting on Wednesday, offered special prayers, thanking God for sparing the life of President Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari was meeting the whole members of the cabinet for the first time since his return to Abuja on August 19 after a

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ehovah’s Witnesses attacked with poisonous gas, 400 delegates faint

Daily Dispatch August 29, 2017

No fewer than 400 Jehovah’s Witnesses passed out when assailants attacked the “Don’t Give Up!” 2017 Regional Convention of the Witnesses in Luanda, Angola. About 7,000 delegates were in attendance at the convention, which held at the weekend. Police and firemen were invited and promptly intervened. “Four ambulances and three policemen who joined the faithful […]

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We survived on weeds for refusing to fight for Boko Haram – escapee

Daily Dispatch August 29, 2017

A 25-year old housewife and mother of five, Aisha Bukar, has recounted her ordeal in the hands of Boko-Haram insurgents, saying she, her husband, mother-in-law and children, fed on ‘weeds’ to survive. Mrs. Bukar, one of the captives of the insurgents, escaped from their enclave after a military war plane bombed their hideout in Sambisa […]

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Abacha loot: Why we are finding it difficult to recover funds from US – Presidency [VIDEO]

Daily Dispatch August 28, 2017

The Presidency has disclosed why Nigerian government is finding it difficult to repatriate looted funds stashed in the United States, US, by the late Military Head of State, Gen Sani Abacha (rtd). Senior Special Assistant to President Mohammed Buhari on Prosecutions, Chief Okoi Obono-Obla, revealed that the failure of the immediate past administration was responsible […]

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15,000 rendered homeless as flood submerges seven communities in Benue

Daily Dispatch August 28, 2017

No fewer than 15,000 persons have been rendered homeless as flood wreaked havocs in Benue communities during the weekend. The affected areas include Benue radio station and Wurukum Market. Other communities affected were Welfare Quarters, Benue State University community, New Kanshio village, Rice Mill Wadata, as well as Idye and Achusa villages.The State Commissioners for

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Anyaoku, Akinriade, Utomi, Duke others plans to engage FG on national integration

Daily Dispatch August 27, 2017

Notable Statesmen and Eminent Leaders of thought across the country have concluded plans to mobilise national consensus and popular harmony on the agitations for the Restructuring of Nigeria to forestall possible degeneration of the festering ethnic political acrimony in the country These feelers emerged last week in Lagos at a media interaction organised by a […]