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2baba, Ezekwesili, Odinkalu mourn victims of killings + photos

Daily Dispatch May 28, 2018

Nigerians from all walks of life on Monday converged on the Unity Fountain, Abuja, to mourn victims of killings across the country. The mourners were clad in black shirts with the inscription #OneDeathTooMany. Civil society groups, human rights activists, and family members of some victims were

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17 Boko Haram members surrender, give reasons

Daily Dispatch May 28, 2018

Seventeen suspected Boko Haram members on Monday said they surrendered to the Nigerian military due to the federal government’s pledge to offer them amnesty. One of them, Ahmed Alhassan, disclosed this when Rogers Nicholas, a major-general, paraded the suspects at Theartre Commander of Operation Dole in Maiduguri. He said they heard President Buhari’s appeal through […]

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ICPC arraigns UK-based surgeon, wife for N233m SURE-P scam

Daily Dispatch May 28, 2018

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission has charged a United Kingdom-based Professor of Neurology, Reuben Obaro and his wife, Mrs. Ayodele Obaro, a practising nurse in the UK to court for allegedly misappropriating N233.6m belonging to the Federal Government. The suspects are facing eight charges before Justice A. O. Ebong of the […]

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N2.1bn fraud: Dokpesi received funds without executing any contract, says witness

Daily Dispatch May 28, 2018

Mr Usman Aliyu, A prosecution witness in the N2.1 billion fraud case filed against Chief Raymond Dokpesi, Usman Aliyu on Monday told the Federal High Court, Abuja, that the defendant received the money without executing any contract. Dokpesi, Chairman Emeritus of DAAR Communicationsa is facing a seven-count charge, bordering on money laundering and procurement fraud.

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Democracy Day: Let’s deppen our democracy – Senator Adeola (YAYI)

Daily Dispatch May 28, 2018

As the nation celebrates yet another Democracy Day marking almost two decades of unbroken democratic rule, Senator Solomon Adeola (APC-Lagos West), the chairman of Senate Committee on Local Content has call on all Nigerians to continue to work towards the deepening of the nation’s democratic experience as alternatives to democratic rule remains odious in the […]

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ACF Urges FG to Probe $16bn Power Sector Spending

Daily Dispatch May 28, 2018

The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has joined in the call by some Nigerians on the Federal Government to probe the alleged mismanagement of $16billion invested in the power sector between 1999 till date. In a statement issued on Monday by its national publicity secretary, Muhammad Ibrahim Biu, ACF said the call for probe of the […]