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Breaking: Senator Nwaoboshi arraigned for ‘N805m fraud

Daily Dispatch April 25, 2018

Peter Nwaoboshi, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senator, on Wednesday appeared before a federal high court, Lagos, over an alleged N805 million fraud. Nwaoboshi, who represents Delta north, was arraigned on a two-count charge of money laundering and fraud alongside two companies namely:

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Dino Melaye speaks on arrest, escape

Daily Dispatch April 25, 2018

Nigerian senator, Dino Melaye, has explained the events leading to his reported escape from a moving police vehicle that landed him in a hospital in Abuja on Tuesday. A statement signed by his media aide, Gideon Ayodele, on Wednesday morning, said the senator voluntarily submitted himself to the police and, therefore, did not deserve to […]

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PACAC: 8,000 whistleblowers came forward in one year

Daily Dispatch April 25, 2018

No fewer than 8,000 whistleblowers were recorded by the federal government in the last one year, the Presidential Advisory Committee against Corruption (PACAC) has said. Bolaji Owasanoye, executive secretary of PACAC, told NAN that the whistleblower’s policy had succeeded resoundingly. Owasanoye said: “Just a few weeks ago, PACAC, in collaboration with federal ministry of

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Buhari has made it more dangerous and risky to be corrupt in Nigeria- Owasonoye

Daily Dispatch April 25, 2018

President Muhammadu Buhari has made it more dangerous and risky to be corrupt in Nigeria now than before. Prof. Bolaji Owasonoye, Executive Secretary, Presidential Advisory Committee against Corruption, said Buhari’s administration had not had any high-profile scandal in its three years. He told the Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in New York […]

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‘For fighting corruption, I was almost confined into wheelchair’ -Okonjo-Iweala

Daily Dispatch April 25, 2018

Erstwhile Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has revealed how oil importers and marketers wanted confine her to a wheelchair. She also alleged that the marketers wanted to force her out of office during the time she served under ex-President Goodluck Jonathan. Okonjo-Iweala said that a friend to one of her brothers attended a meeting where […]

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Three Suicide Bombers Killed In Failed Attempt To Attack Borno

Daily Dispatch April 24, 2018

Three suicide bombers were on Monday killed as security operatives foiled an attack in an attempt to infiltrate Bama town through Ajilari in Borno State. The bombers, when sighted by the guards on duty hurriedly, detonated the IED strapped to the bodies thereby killing themselves. In a statement by the Borno State PPRO, DSP, Edet Okon, […]