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Gambia: Jammeh Bows To Pressure, Agrees To Go Into Exile

Daily Dispatch January 19, 2017

Barely a few hours before his mandate expires, outgoing President Yahya Jammeh of the Gambia is reported to have accepted a last-minute deal to relinquish power peacefully and go into exile. According to reports from Banjul which are yet to be independently confirmed, Mr Jammeh agreed to step

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Your Economic Policy ‘Are Archaic and Opaque’- Oby Ezekwesili Tells Buhari

Daily Dispatch January 19, 2017

President Muhammadu Buhari’s current economic policies are similar to those he promulgated during the military regime he led in the 1980s, a former Minister of Education and social critic, Oby Ezekwesili, has said. Mrs. Ezekwesili said Mr. Buhari’s “archaic” and “opaque” economic principles are not only encouraging massive corruption and abuse of power, but also […]

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Accidental Airstrike In Rann: I Feel Pained-Aisha Buhari

Daily Dispatch January 18, 2017

The wife of the president, Aisha Muhammadu Buhari, feels really pained by what she described as the erroneous bombing of Rann in Kala Balge Local Government Area of Borno State by the Nigerian Air Force fighter jet. The president’s wife, in a statement on Wednesday by her Special Assistant on Media Mrs Adebisi Olumide-Ajayi, said […]

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Rann Airstrike: Conditions For Post-operative Care Not Adequate- ICRC Surgeon

Daily Dispatch January 18, 2017

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has called for the evacuation of all the patients involved in the accidental airstrike on Monday to Maiduguri, saying the conditions for post-operative care are not adequate. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement expressed shock at the death of civilians, including six aid workers from […]

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How Saraki Trnsfer $3m To His Foreign Account

Daily Dispatch January 17, 2017

A banker Nwachukwu Amazu, on Tuesday told the Code of Conduct, CCT, how the President of the Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki made transfers of over $3m to his foreign account while he was governor of Kwara State. Senator Saraki is facing charges before the Danladi Umar-led tribunal for false and anticipatory assets declaration when he […]

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Air Force Strikes Boko Haram New Hideout In Northern Borno

Daily Dispatch January 16, 2017

The Nigerian Air Force on Monday said its fighter jets struck Boko Haram new hideout about one nautical mile south of Tumbum Rego in northern Borno. A statement from Air Force spokesman Group Captain Ayodele Famuyiwa said the NAF fighter jets and helicopter gunship assaulted the location in a coordinated day and night operation following […]