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Revive Moribund Tyre Companies NURTW Tells FG

Daily Dispatch July 3, 2017

Alhaji lssa Ore, the chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Kwara branch, on Monday appealed to the Federal Government to revive the moribund tyre manufacturing companies in the country. Ore told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ilorin that this would curb the

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Osinbajo in Ethiopia for AU Ordinary Summit

Daily Dispatch July 3, 2017

The Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, is representing Nigeria at the 29th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union in Ethiopia. The session would hold on Monday after a week-long pre-summit activities involving ministers and other stakeholders. In one of such activities, Nigeria officially assumed the one-month rotational chairmanship of the African Union

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Suspected Boko Haram militants kills 9,abduct many in Niger

Daily Dispatch July 3, 2017

Suspected Boko Haram militants killed nine people and abducted dozens more in an attack Sunday night in southern Niger, the local mayor and a journalist said on Monday. The attackers arrived in the village of Ngalewa on camels at around 9 p.m. (2000 GMT) and abducted some 30 people, the journalist said. Abba Gata Issa, […]

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Boko Haram: Global Amnesty to probe US claims of Nigerian Army using child soldiers

Daily Dispatch July 2, 2017

Human Rights organisation, Global Amnesty Watch, has said it would investigate allegations of the use of child soldiers in the counter-insurgency war in the North East of Nigeria, saying it categorically contravened the Child Soldier Prohibition Act 2008. The findings of the investigation, GAW said, would be made public at the appropriate time. The GAW […]

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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 seal off the Taiwanese office and force remaining personnel 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’ […]