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Bakassi IDPs Protest Kidnapping Of 4 Nigerian Chiefs By Cameroonian Gendarmes

Daily Dispatch August 24, 2017

Aggrieved Nigerians in the Bakassi peninsula who have over the years taken refuge in camps for internally displaced persons, having been forcefully ejected from their settlements by Cameroonian authorities, have protested alleged abduction of four community leaders. Registering their protest in

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I stand by all my words on Buhari’s health- Fayose

Daily Dispatch August 23, 2017

Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose has said that his agitation and revelation was responsible for ‘the return of President Buhari last Saturday. Fayose, who was speaking to leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party at the government office, said he stands by all his claims about the President being in coma on July 6, adding […]

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Speaker Dogara rejoices with Sultan at 61

Daily Dispatch August 23, 2017

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has felicitated with the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammed Sa’ad Abubakar III on the occasion of his 61st Birthday Anniversary. In a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media and Public Affairs, Mr. Turaki Hassan, the Speaker described the Sultan as a man of […]

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N11tn electricity scam: ICC hears SERAP’s petition against Obasanjo, Jonathan

Daily Dispatch August 23, 2017

The International Criminal Court in The Hague is considering the petition on the allegations of widespread, systematic and large-scale corruption in the electricity sector since the return of democracy in 1999 and under the governments of former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and Goodluck Jonathan in Nigeria, anti-corruption advocacy group

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FG may adopt selective minimum wage increase –Osinbajo

Daily Dispatch August 23, 2017

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says the Federal Government may consider increasing workers’ remuneration package, especially bonuses of certain government agencies, instead of increasing wages across board. According to a transcript made available to journalists in Abuja on Tuesday by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mr. Laolu Akande, the Vice-President

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Buhari’s recovery will reduce needless conspiracy theories – Atiku

Daily Dispatch August 21, 2017

Former Vice President and chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Atiku Abubakar, has welcomed President Muhammadu Buhari back home after his medical leave in the United Kingdom and expressed delight at his level of good health and recovery. In a statement by his media office on Monday, the former Vice President said every well-meaning […]