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DSS Invites Apostle Suleman Over Inciting Comments

Daily Dispatch January 28, 2017

General Overseer of Omega Fire Ministries Worldwide, Apostle Johnson Suleman, has been invited by the Department of State Services to appear at its National Headquarters in Abuja. The cleric has been invited for interrogation on Monday by 10:00 am.  The invitation is believed to be connected to

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Delta Catholic Priest Kidnapped

Daily Dispatch January 28, 2017

Gunmen have reportedly abducted a Catholic priest in-charge of St. Patricks Catholic Church, Eku in Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta State, Rev. Fr. Joseph Oghenekevwe Ojakorotu. Fr Ojakorotu was allegedly abducted along the Sapele-Eku road in Sapele Local Government Area while returning from a journey to Eku on Friday. Sources also confirmed to […]

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NTIC Kidnap: Police Denied Knowledge of Ransom Paid

Daily Dispatch January 28, 2017

The Zone 2 Police Headquarters, Lagos, has denied knowledge of any ransom payment to the kidnappers of students and staff of Nigerian Turkish International College. The police in a statement by its spokesman for the zone, Benjamin Hudenyin said though the police was fully involved in the process that led to the their it knew […]

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Rise Up In Our Defence- CAN Tells Osinbajo

Daily Dispatch January 27, 2017

Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) on Friday urged acting President, Yemi Osinbajo to rise and defend the plight of Christians in Nigeria. A statement by Bayo Oladeji, Special Assistant on Media to the CAN President, Rev Dr Samson Olasupo Ayokunle, said while Christians are yet to recover from the genocide in Southern Kaduna by the […]

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Sokoto Govt to Spend N32m on Mass Wedding

Daily Dispatch January 27, 2017

The Sokoto State Government says it has received approval from the state government to spend N32 million on mass wedding for 100 couples this year . The Commissioner for Religious Affairs, Alhaji Mani Maishinku, disclosed this in Sokoto on Friday while defending the ministry’s budget proposals for 2017 before the state House of Assembly’s Committee […]

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Buchi Emecheta: Nigerian author who championed girls dies aged 72

Daily Dispatch January 26, 2017

Nigerian author Buchi Emecheta, whose works included The Joys of Motherhood, Second-Class Citizen and The Bride Price, has died at her home in London at the age of 72. Emecheta’s books were on the national curricula of several African countries. She was known for championing women and girls in her writing, though famously rejected description […]