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Sallah: NSCDC deploys 40,000 personnel, sniffer dogs

Daily Dispatch June 22, 2017

The Commandant General (CG), Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Abdullahi Gana Muhammadu has directed the deployment of 40,000 personnel across the nation to provide maximum security for the festivity. In a statement from the corps spokesman Emmanuel Okeh stated that the

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Boko Haram attacks convoy being escorted by soldiers to Damboa

Daily Dispatch June 20, 2017

Boko Haram insurgents have attacked a long convoy of carrying the corpse of one police sergent whose relations were going to bury in Lassa town in southern Borno. The Commissioner of Police, Damien Chukwu, said on phone that although they did not touch the ambulance the driver was killed and many others wounded this Tuesday morning. The […]

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Gunmen kidnap 27-year-old businessman in Sokoto – NSCDC

Daily Dispatch June 20, 2017

Some suspected gunmen have reportedly kidnapped a 27-year-old businessman, Alhaji Abubakar Kakirko, in his Kakirko Village, Wurno Local Government Area of Sokoto State. Mr Babangida Abdullahi, the State Commandant, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), made this known on Tuesday at a news briefing in Sokoto. Abdullahi said that the businessman was abducted in

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SERAP drags FG, Queen’s College to UN over pupils’ deaths, suffering

Daily Dispatch June 20, 2017

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has dragged the Federal Government and the management of Queens College over the recent deaths three pupils in the schools. SERAP, in a statement on Tuesday by its Deputy Director, Timothy Adewale, said it petitioned four UN special rapporteurs urging them to use their “good offices and mandates to […]

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Nigerian govt to use N559 billion recovered loot to fund 2017 budget – Minister

Daily Dispatch June 19, 2017

The federal government said on Monday it would use a fraction of the looted funds recovered so far to finance part of the 2017 budget. The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Udoma Udoma, said this at the 2017 budget breakdown in Abuja. He said the total revenue projected was N5.08 trillion, with 11 per […]

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Court orders remand of Suswam in prison

Daily Dispatch June 19, 2017

A Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday ordered a former Governor of Benue State, Gabriel Suswam, and two of his former aides, to be remanded in Kuje Prisons, Abuja. Justice Gabriel Kolawole made the remand order after the three defendants were arraigned on 32 counts of diversion of a total sum of N9.79bn meant […]