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Federal govt urged to give accurate details on missing Yobe schoolgirls

Daily Dispatch February 22, 2018

The Bring Back our Girls Group, BBOG, has urged the federal government to give accurate details of the number of school-girls recently declared missing in Yobe State after their school was invaded by suspected Boko Haram insurgents. The group which has been, through daily sit-ins and protests,

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Amnesty outlines how Nigerians’ rights were violated by military, Boko Haram, others

Daily Dispatch February 22, 2018

Amnesty International, AI, on Thursday released its 2017/2018 Human Rights report, wherein the global rights organisation accused the Nigerian military of arbitrarily arresting and detaining thousands of young men, women and children. It stated that as at last April, the military held more than 4,900 in extremely overcrowded facility in Giwa Barrack, adding that disease,

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Fire razes Plateau ultra-modern IDPs camp

Daily Dispatch February 22, 2018

The newly constructed ultra modern Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) Camp in Shendam Local Government Area (LGA) of Plateau has been razed by fire. The camp was constructed by the Presidential Committee on Flood, Relief and Rehabilitation, which came into being after the 2012 flood disaster that ravaged 24 states in the country. Mr Bintan Wuyep, […]

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Omokri: TI ranking mocks AU’s recognition of Buhari as anti-corruption champion

Daily Dispatch February 22, 2018

Reno Omokri, former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, says the latest report by Transparency International (TI) “makes a mockery” of the African Union’s award to President Muhammadu Buhari as its anti-corruption champion. On Wednesday, TI said in its latest corruption perception index (CPI) that Nigeria dropped from 136 in 2016 to 148 in 2017, out of the 180 […]

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[BREAKING] N650m fraud: EFCC rejects ex-FCT minister, Akinjide’s settlement terms

Daily Dispatch February 22, 2018

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Thursday opened its case against a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Jumoke Akinjide, who was charged with an alleged fraud of N650m. The anti-graft agency called its first witness in the case, after rejecting the proposal by the ex-minister and her co-defendants to settle the case […]

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Brutalised journalist petitions DSS over threat to life

Daily Dispatch February 22, 2018

Alambo Datonye, a Correspondent of Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN), has petitioned the authorities of Department of State Services (DSS) over threat to his life by a personnel of the agency. Datonye who was allegedly brutalised on February 17, is finding difficult to cope after he was punched on the eye by the DSS […]