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600 Million Children Could Face Extreme Shortages of Water By 2040-UN

Daily Dispatch March 23, 2017

Warning that as many as 600 million children – one in four worldwide – will be living in areas with extremely scare water by 2040, the United Nations children’s agency has called on governments to take immediate measures to curb the impact on the lives of children. In its report,

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Breaking: Terrorist attacks London

Daily Dispatch March 22, 2017

A woman has died on Westminster Bridge in central London in what police are treating as a terrorist incident.A police officer was also stabbed in the nearby Houses of Parliament by an attacker, who was shot by police. The attacker struck several pedestrians as he drove a car across the bridge, before crashing it into […]

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DSS arrests suspected kidnappers of German archeologists, Boko Haram kingpins

Daily Dispatch March 22, 2017

The Department of State Services has arrested two suspected kidnappers of the two German archeolologists, Dr. Peter Breuning and Johannes Brehinger, on March 13 in Kaduna State. The suspects are: Ibrahim Sule and Bello Shehu. Breuning and Brehinger were kidnapped on February 22 at Pahkogo in Kagarko Local Government Area of Kaduna State. A statement […]

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Multiple Bomb Blast Claims 8 Lives, 20 Injured

Daily Dispatch March 22, 2017

Multiple suicide bomb blasts rocked a camp for migrants who have fled Boko Haram insurgents near Maiduguri, Borno State early Wednesday. Officials of the National Emergency Management Agency said the attacks claimed eight lives and left at least 20 people injured. The Northeast information officer of the Agency, AbdulKadir Ibrahim, in a statement said the […]

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Breaking: Again, Customs CG says He Won’t Honour Senate’s Summon

Daily Dispatch March 21, 2017

The Controller General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Colonel Hameed Ali (retd), has again said he would not honour the invitation of the Senate to appear before it. Before he appeared in mufti last week and was told to re-appear in Customs uniform, Ali had snubbed the Senate. When he appeared last week in a […]

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How I Sponsored Obasanjo’s Presidential Campaign With N100m in 1998 – Orji Kalu boasts

Daily Dispatch March 21, 2017

Former Abia State Governor, Orji Uzor Kalu, has boasted of how he funded ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo’s Presidential campaign in 1998 with the sum of N100m. Speaking during a dinner in Washington DC, United States, US, Kalu also claimed he should own 90% of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, stakes by virtue of his N500 million […]