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Ayade increases allowance of corps members

Daily Dispatch August 13, 2018

The Governor of Cross River State, Prof. Ben Ayade, has increased the allowance of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members serving in the state from N3, 100 to N5, 000. Ayade stated this on Monday during the closing ceremony for the 2018 `Batch B’ Orientation at the NYSC Orientation Camp in

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Okorocha inaugurates 2019 Buhari campaign council, promises APC victory

Daily Dispatch August 13, 2018

Governor Rochas Okorocha has inaugurated the Imo State chapter of President Muhammadu Buhari re-election campaign council in the South East geopolitical zone. Okorocha, who was represented by his Chief of Staff, Uche Nwosu, at the inauguration ceremony held in Owerri on Sunday evening, boasted that the All Progressives Congress would win all the elective seats […]

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Tambuwal visits Atiku in Abuja

Daily Dispatch August 13, 2018

Aminu Tambuwal, governor of Sokoto state, visited former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar in Abuja on Sunday night. Both politicians who defected from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are nursing presidential ambition. Tambuwal also held a meeting with Gbenga Daniel, director-general of Atiku Presidential Campaign Organisation.

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Murtala Muhammed family calls for enactment of Victims’ Rights Law …25 years after murder of ex-Head of State’s son

Daily Dispatch August 13, 2018

Twenty Five years after the death of the eldest son of the late former Head of State, Gen. Murtala Muhammed, Zackari, the family on Monday, enjoined the National Assembly to enact the Victims’ Rights Laws, which would protect the rights of victims of such heinous crimes. Zackari, 27, was a graduate of the University of […]

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INEC to reposition polling booths to check vote-buying –REC

Daily Dispatch August 13, 2018

Polling booths are henceforth to be position in a way to make it difficult for people to see how voters cast their votes during elections, a Resident Electoral Commissioner announced in Awka on Monday. Dr Nkwachukwu Orji, the REC in charge of Anambra, who made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria said […]

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Calm back at Maiduguri Airport after protest by troops

Daily Dispatch August 13, 2018

The Nigerian Army said calm has been restored at Maiduguri Airport seized for two hours on Sunday by riotous troops, that it described as ‘unscrupulous”. In a statement today, Colonel Onyema Nwachukwu, Deputy Director Public Relations, Operation Lafiya Dole Theatre Command said the protest by the few unscrupulous troops happened while the command was conducting […]