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N250m Proposed Gatehouse For VP’s Residence Funded by Jonathan – Presidency

Daily Dispatch February 19, 2017

There is no proposal in the 2017 budget to build a N250 million gatehouse for the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo. The Senior Special Assistant Media in the Office of the Vice President, Laolu Akande, made the rebuttal in a statement on Sunday. Opposition Senator, Ben Bruce, had questioned

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Breaking: Andrew Yakubu Asks Court To Return $9.7m, £74,000‎ to Him

Daily Dispatch February 19, 2017

A former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Andrew Yakubu, has asked the court to return the $9.7 million and £74,000‎ recovered from him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. To achieve this, Yakubu has instituted a suit at the Federal High Court, Kano requesting it to set aside the order […]

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Borno Adopts New Measures To Tackle Boko Haram’s Remnants

Daily Dispatch February 19, 2017

The Borno State Government has approved the introduction of new security measures to curtail the increasing attacks by remnants of Boko Haram insurgents in the state. Malam Isa Gusau, the Special Adviser to Governor Kashim Shettima on Communication and Strategy, stated this in a statement in Maiduguri on Sunday. According to Gusau, the measures include […]

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Pay Us Our Pension Before You Leave Office – Ondo Poly Retirees Tell Mimiko

Daily Dispatch February 19, 2017

Members of the Association of Retired Staff of Rufus Giwa polytechnic, Owo local government area of Ondo State have appealed to the outgoing governor, Olusegun Mimiko ,to pay their pension arrears and gratuity before bowing out of office this Friday. The retirees, who claimed they started the struggle for the payment of their pension in […]

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PDP’s desire to win election in 2019 is self-deception – Former militant group

Daily Dispatch February 19, 2017

The National Coalition of Niger Delta Ex-Agitators has said that the desire of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to return to power in 2019 was self-delusion, insisting that the meeting held in former President Goodluck Jonathan’s house in Abuja in preparation for 2019 would not yield result. On Tuesday, February 13, PDP leaders met […]

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FG’s plan to ban Okada is wicked, I won’t in Ekiti – Fayose

Daily Dispatch February 19, 2017

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, has declared that the plan by Federal Government to ban commercial motorcycle popularly called Okada as wicked. Addressing Okada riders in the state on Sunday, Fayose said he would not ban Okada in the state. In a statement by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere […]