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Hardship, insecurity: Speaker Abbas gives Nigerians fresh hope

Daily Dispatch February 8, 2024

The Speaker of the House of Representatives Rt. Hon. Abbas Tajudeen, Ph.D, has acknowledged the concerns of Nigerians on the current state of the economy, security and other issues, assuring them of doubled efforts towards addressing the issues. At a world press conference at his office in

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Vice President, Kashim Shettima inducts new combat helicopters, reaffirms commitment to ending insecurity

Daily Dispatch February 6, 2024

Counterinsurgency, counterterrorism, anti-crude oil theft and anti-kidnapping operations in Nigeria received a major boost as President Bola Ahmed Tinubu inducted 2 new T-129 ATAK Helicopters and a King Air 360ER Beechcraft into the Order of Battle (ORBAT) of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) earlier today, 6 February 2024, at NAF Base, Makurdi. Air Vice Marshal […]

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Kidnapping: Senate summons Security Chiefs

Daily Dispatch January 30, 2024

The Nigerian Senate has called upon security chiefs for a meeting in response to the escalating insecurity in the country, with a specific date for the interaction to be determined later.After a closed-door meeting lasting over three hours, the senate expressed its condemnation of the rising occurrences of kidnappings, banditry, and the outright murder of […]

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Supreme Court affirms Farouk Lawan’s jail term over $500,000 bribe

Daily Dispatch January 26, 2024

The Supreme Court has upheld the five years jail term of former member of the House of Representatives, Farouk Lawan. The lead judgement of the apex court panel read by Justice Tijani Abubakar on Friday dismissed Lawan’s appeal against the judgement of the Court of Appeal in Abuja, which had in February 2022 reduced the […]

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Just In: Police teargas 16 sacked Plateau PDP lawmakers

Daily Dispatch January 23, 2024

Armed policemen, on Tuesday, fired tear gas on the 16 Peoples Democratic Party members of the Plateau State House of Assembly who were sacked by the Court of Appeal. The lawmakers had arrived at the Rayfield Old Government House in Jos on Tuesday morning alongside their supporters preparatory to their resumption of plenary when the […]

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Tinubu to CAN: We will continue to fight corruption, Nigeria is ours to fix

Daily Dispatch January 22, 2024

President Bola Tinubu says his administration will not relent in addressing corruption and other vices because it is a sacred duty to ensure that the country is set right for the prosperity of all Nigerians. Speaking when he received a delegation of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), led by its president, Archbishop Daniel Okoh, […]