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Appeal Court affirms VIO has no power to seize vehicles or fine motorists

Daily Dispatch December 4, 2025

The Court of Appeal in Abuja has reaffirmed that Vehicle Inspection Officers (VIO) and the Directorate of Road Traffic Services lack the legal authority to confiscate vehicles or impose fines on motorists. In its latest judgment, the appellate court upheld the October 16, 2024 ruling of the

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Tinubu forwards Ibas, Ita Enang two others as Ambassadorial nominees to Senate

Daily Dispatch December 4, 2025

President Bola Tinubu has put forward a new set of non-career ambassadorial nominees, led by Ibok-Ete Ibas, the immediate past sole administrator of Rivers State. Others on the list include former Akwa Ibom North-East senator (2011–2015) Ita Enang, former Imo State First Lady Chioma Ohakim, and ex-Minister of Interior and former Chief of Army Staff, […]

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Retired Police Chief accuses northern clerics of fueling extremism

Daily Dispatch December 4, 2025

A retired Assistant Commissioner of Police, Sheriff Abubakar Rabiu, has stirred intense public debate across Northern Nigeria after releasing a strongly worded open letter accusing some Islamic clerics of promoting divisive rhetoric and inadvertently nurturing violent extremism. The letter, which has circulated widely across social media platforms and within religious

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Wike appoints Galadima as Senior Special Assistant on Development Control and Planning

Daily Dispatch December 4, 2025

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike has appointed Town Planner Mukhtar Usman Galadima as the Senior Special Assistant on Development Control and Planning. A statement on Wednesday, by the Minister’s Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media, described Galadima, as a seasoned Town Planner, with over 30 years of

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CG Musa: Security agencies can now track ransom payments

Daily Dispatch December 3, 2025

Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Christopher Musa (rtd.), says Nigeria’s security architecture is now equipped with improved capabilities to trace ransom payments made to kidnappers and terror groups across the country. Speaking on Wednesday, Gen. Musa disclosed that enhanced intelligence tools and inter-agency coordination have strengthened efforts to follow the

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Indigenous contractors call on President Tinubu to pay N500 billion contract money owed

Daily Dispatch December 3, 2025

Indigenous contractors have cried to federal government to immediately pay them for contracts they have fully agreed executed in order to stem the tide of death of their counterparts and severe hardship all of them of continued to bear due to continued non-payment of what is due to them. The group who thronged the federal […]