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Nigeria Office To Be Forced To Leave Taipei

Daily Dispatch July 2, 2017

Nigeria Trade Office in Taiwan will be forced to relocate outside Taipei following the forced eviction of Taiwanese diplomats from the nation’s trade mission in Nigeria’s capital, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said yesterday. The Nigerian government on Friday sent 25 armed police officers to

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Nnamdi Kanu’s Actions Worse Than Arewa Youths’ – Makarfi

Daily Dispatch July 1, 2017

Former Kaduna governor and Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP National Caretaker Committee, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, has stated that the manner of agitation carried out by the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, is worse than that of the Coalition of Northern Youths, CNY. In what they termed ‘Kaduna declaration’ […]

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Macron, African leaders meet over al-Qaida, Boko Haram

Daily Dispatch July 1, 2017

President Emmanuel Macron of France will meet West African leaders on Sunday in Mali to discuss support for a new 5,000-strong multinational force meant to counter a growing threat from terror groups including Boko Haram and al-Qaida. Heads of state from five nations across Africa’s vast Sahel region have called for a new regional force […]

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Nigerian Doctor kills one, injures six in US hospital shooting

Daily Dispatch July 1, 2017

Hellbent on revenge and armed with an assault rifle, a former Bronx-Lebanon Hospital physician in New York, United States of America, wearing a white lab coat opened fire Friday inside the medical center — killing one doctor and injuring six other people before killing himself, authorities said. The shooter, Dr. Henry Bello, 45, had vowed […]

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UK Deports 28 Nigerians

Daily Dispatch June 29, 2017

The Government of the United Kingdom on Thursday deported 28 Nigerians for committing immigration-related offences in the country. The Nigerians were sent back home barely 48 hours after 23 Nigerians were deported from Spain and five days after another batch of 34 were jointly deported by the governments of Switzerland, Germany, Iceland, Austria, Belgium and […]

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Nigeria’s unity not negotiable – Sen. Wamakko

Daily Dispatch June 29, 2017

The unity of Nigeria is not negotiable, hence the need to sustain the fervent prayers for its peace and unity, Senator Aliyu Wamakko said on Wednesday in Sokoto. Wamakko made the assertion on Wednesday while receiving the state Governor, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal, various groups and individuals who paid him homage on Sallah celebration. The senator, […]