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Obasanjo bags Middle Belt’s Father of Modern Nigeria award

Daily Dispatch June 28, 2018

Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has been conferred with the award of ‘The Father of Modern Nigeria’ by the Middle Belt Traditional Council. The Chairman of the Council, Chief Ochi Ode Emmanuel while presenting the award on Thursday, at Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential

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Troops neutralise 6, rescue 33

Daily Dispatch June 28, 2018

Troops on clearance operations have neutralised six Boko Haram terrorists in Damboa and Bama Local Government Areas of Borno. The troops also rescued 33 persons from the terrorists, including eight men, 12 women and 13 children. Army spokesman, Brig.-Gen Texas Chukwu, who disclosed this in a statement, said the rescued victims had been profiled and […]

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CJN orders Chief Magistrates to visit police cells, detention centres to curb maltreatment from police and other security agencies

Daily Dispatch June 28, 2018

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, has directed that Chief Magistrates should periodically inspect police stations and other detention centres in their domains, to curb growing level of citizen maltreatment by police and other security agencies. This followed what he described as the “frightening proportions” of “horrific incidents of police brutality,

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Budget alteration: Blame Buhari- Falana, says the national assembly has no constitutional right to rewrite and pass the budget

Daily Dispatch June 28, 2018

Femi Falana, human rights lawyer,  says the national assembly has no constitutional right to rewrite and pass the budget. On June 20, President Muhammadu Buhari signed the 2018 appropriation bill into law. Buhari had said the national assembly increased its budget from N125 billion to N139.5 billion He also said the lawmakers added 6,403 projects […]

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Alleged genocide: Ex-APC spokesman drags FG to UN …Says Buhari lacks political will to stop the killings

Daily Dispatch June 28, 2018

The immediate past Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Comrade Timi Frank has reported the inability of the present government under President Muhammadu Buhari to stop what he called “ethnic cleansing and genocide in Nigeria” to the United Nation. Frank said that the present administration lack political will to

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Killings: PDP Declares 7 Days Mourning, …Flies Flags at half-mast

Daily Dispatch June 27, 2018

The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) declares a seven-day mourning for the victims of the gruesome killings of innocent Nigerians by marauders and bandits in Plateau state and other parts of the countryConsequently, the party directs that its flags at all its offices and formation at all levels across the country be flown […]