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Melaye gives IG 48hrs to produce gun-running suspects

Daily Dispatch March 28, 2018

The lawmaker representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Senator Dino Melaye, has asked the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to produce the two main suspects in his gun-running allegation within 48 hours. Melaye, while making the call at the plenary on Wednesday, said he had already

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Dapchi parents agitate for Leah Sharibu’s freedom, urge FG to intensify action

Daily Dispatch March 28, 2018

Parents of the released Dapchi schoolgirls have called on the Federal Government to step up action and ensure timely release of Leah Sharibu, the only girl still being held by Boko Haram days after the insurgents returned the abducted girls. Secretary of the parents’ association, Mallam Bukar Kachalla, told PUNCH on phone that the parents […]

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Reps deny receiving $30,000 bribe to reverse polls reordering bill

Daily Dispatch March 28, 2018

Members of the House of Representatives on Wednesday denied an allegation that they received $30,000 bribe to back down from overriding President Muhammadu Buhari’s veto on the Electoral Act (amendment) Bill, 2018. They described it as “pure falsehood” intended to intimidate lawmakers to abandon their insistence of changing the sequence of elections ahead of the […]

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Senate aborts debate of alleged military “collusion” with herdsmen

Daily Dispatch March 28, 2018

The widely reported debate of former Defence Minister General Theophilus Danjuma’s claim that the military was “colluding” with killer herdsmen to perpetrate ethnic cleansing was aborted in the Senate Wednesday. Not only that the debate of the controversial claim was not listed in the Order Paper, Senator Yusuf Abubakar Yusuf, who raised the matter kept […]

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Shell files criminal complaint against ex-employee over Nigeria oilfield sale

Daily Dispatch March 28, 2018

Royal Dutch Shell has filed a criminal complaint against a former employee over suspected bribes in the sale of a Nigerian onshore oilfield in 2011, shedding more light on the company’s activities in the oil-rich West African country. The suspected wrongdoing is unrelated to a court case against the Anglo-Dutch company and Eni in Italy […]

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Dapchi: Leah Sharibu has overpowered Boko Haram members – Senator Ben Bruce

Daily Dispatch March 28, 2018

Senator Ben Murray-Bruce (PDP Bayelsa) has reacted to the continued captivity of Leah Sheribu, the Christian girl who refused to denounce her faith. Boko Haram insurgents have since released 104 of the schoolgirls kidnapped from their school in Dapchi, Yobe state, keeping Leah behind for refusing to denounce her faith. Five of the schoolgirls are […]