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Completing Lagos-Kano Railway Project Will Cost N4trillion – Amaechi

Daily Dispatch November 22, 2018

The Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi says about N4 trillion is required to complete the Lagos to Kano standard gauge rail project. Amaechi said this on Thursday while addressing journalists in Kaduna State. According to him, this is the reason why the project has been moving at a slow

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Offa robbery: Reps to probe death of key suspect in police custody

Daily Dispatch November 22, 2018

Federal lawmakers in the House of Representatives on Thursday mandated the committee on Police Affairs, Human Rights and Justice to carry out an investigation into the facts surrounding the time and circumstances of the death of a key suspect in the Offa robbery incident, Michael Adikwu. The resolution, which followed the consideration and adoption of […]

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House linked by EFCC to Fayose is mine, says Ekiti lawmaker

Daily Dispatch November 22, 2018

A member of Ekiti State House of Assembly, Dr. Samuel Omotoso, has said that a two-storey commercial building located at Okesa Market and sealed by the EFCC, belongs to him. Agents of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had sealed off a number of buildings in Ekiti State purportedly belonging to ex-Governor Ayo Fayose. Omotoso […]

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Police lock factional Anambra lawmakers out of Assembly complex

Daily Dispatch November 22, 2018

The Police in Anambra State on Thursday locked out members of the state House of Assembly. The lawmakers, made up of those who purportedly impeached the Speaker of the House, Rita Maduagwu, on the 13th of November, were stopped at the gate of the complex and asked to leave from there. No fewer than 200 […]

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You cannot lure South East into supporting your re-election with fake promises – PDP tells Buhari

Daily Dispatch November 22, 2018

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has reacted to the meeting between President Muhammadu Buhari and Governors from the South East. President Buhari met with Governors and some political leaders from the region in closed-door at the Presidential Villa, Abuja yesterday, promising to complete all infrastructural promises he made to the region. But in a statement […]

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EFCC rearraigns two for internet fraud

Daily Dispatch November 22, 2018

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos office, on Thursday, November 22, 2018, re-arraigned one Sylvester Osolase before Justice O.A. Taiwo of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos on a four-count charge bordering on possession of documents containing false information. A statement by the commission’s head of media and publicity, Tony