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Key highlights of President Bola Tinubu’s meeting with state governors at the State House

Daily Dispatch February 15, 2024

President Bola Tinubu, in the company of Vice President Kashim Shettima, today at the State House, met with the 36 States Governors and the FCT Minister. The meeting agreed on common ground for addressing some of the challenges currently facing the country, especially the rising cost of food

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Notorious female kidnapper arrested while collecting ransom

Daily Dispatch February 8, 2024

Troops from 93 Battalion under 6 Brigade of the Nigerian Army have arrested a suspected notorious female kidnapper, Janet Igohia, while trying to pick up a ransom paid by relatives of an abducted victim in Taraba State. They also apprehended a notorious gunrunner dealing in arms and ammunition and supplying them to criminals within the State and other […]

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Hardship, insecurity: Speaker Abbas gives Nigerians fresh hope

Daily Dispatch February 8, 2024

The Speaker of the House of Representatives Rt. Hon. Abbas Tajudeen, Ph.D, has acknowledged the concerns of Nigerians on the current state of the economy, security and other issues, assuring them of doubled efforts towards addressing the issues. At a world press conference at his office in Abuja on Thursday, the first of its kind […]

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Vice President, Kashim Shettima inducts new combat helicopters, reaffirms commitment to ending insecurity

Daily Dispatch February 6, 2024

Counterinsurgency, counterterrorism, anti-crude oil theft and anti-kidnapping operations in Nigeria received a major boost as President Bola Ahmed Tinubu inducted 2 new T-129 ATAK Helicopters and a King Air 360ER Beechcraft into the Order of Battle (ORBAT) of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) earlier today, 6 February 2024, at NAF Base, Makurdi. Air Vice Marshal […]

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Kidnapping: Senate summons Security Chiefs

Daily Dispatch January 30, 2024

The Nigerian Senate has called upon security chiefs for a meeting in response to the escalating insecurity in the country, with a specific date for the interaction to be determined later.After a closed-door meeting lasting over three hours, the senate expressed its condemnation of the rising occurrences of kidnappings, banditry, and the outright murder of […]

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Supreme Court affirms Farouk Lawan’s jail term over $500,000 bribe

Daily Dispatch January 26, 2024

The Supreme Court has upheld the five years jail term of former member of the House of Representatives, Farouk Lawan. The lead judgement of the apex court panel read by Justice Tijani Abubakar on Friday dismissed Lawan’s appeal against the judgement of the Court of Appeal in Abuja, which had in February 2022 reduced the […]