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800,000 People Commit Suicide Annually – WHO

Daily Dispatch February 24, 2017

No fewer than 800,000 people commit suicide every year, the World Health Organization (WHO) has reported on Thursday. According to the report released by WHO, depression is now also the leading cause of disability worldwide, affecting more than 300 million people, the majority of them women,

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Why Northern Nigeria Remains The Poorest – Senator Shehu Sani

Daily Dispatch February 23, 2017

Senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Shehu Sani, has blamed wealthy politicians for the current poverty in northern part of Nigeria. According to the Senator, the North is believed to be the poorest region in the country despite the number of wealthy people from the area. Sani added that the poor “toiled and worked for […]

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EFCC Recovers 17 Vehicles From Ex-Comptroller General of Customs

Daily Dispatch February 22, 2017

The EFCC has recovered seventeen exotic vehicles in a warehouse owned by the former Comptroller General of Customs, Abdullahi Dikko Inde. The recovery was sequel to an intelligence the commission received that stolen money and properties suspected to proceeds of crime were being stored in the warehouse. Upon receipt of the intelligence, a team of […]

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DHQ Faults Amnesty’s Report, Denies Death Of 240 Persons In Borno

Daily Dispatch February 22, 2017

Amnesty International, a human rights group got a flak from Nigeria’s Defence Headquarters on Wednesday over a report alleging deaths of 240 people in Borno and 177 pro Biafran protesters. In a statement issued in Abuja, Acting Director, Defence Information, Brigadier General Rabe Abubakar described the allegations as “another in its series of spurious fabrications […]

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Another 171 Stranded Nigerians Deported From Libya

Daily Dispatch February 22, 2017

Barely a week after no fewer than 162 Nigerians were brought back by the Federal Government from Libya, another batch of 171 Nigerians were Tuesday deported. They were brought into the country through the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos. They landed at the cargo section of the airport at about 4p.m. Breakdown of persons […]

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NAPTIP Convicts 316 Human Traffickers

Daily Dispatch February 21, 2017

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) says it has so far secured convictions against 316 human traffickers in the country. Speaking at one-day workshop organized by the Conference of Western Attorneys-General (CWAG) in conjunction NAPTIP in Calabar, the Cross River State capital, on Tuesday, the agency’s Chief Legal Officer, Ijeoma