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‎Ogun Set To Commence Construction Of Rural Roads

Daily Dispatch January 22, 2017

Omooba Risawe   Ogun State Deputy Governor, Chief (Mrs.) Yetunde Onanuga, has assured rural dwellers across the three senatorial districts of the State, of government’s readiness to commence the construction of rural roads to improve socio-economic activities in the rural areas. She made

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Demolition Of Churches: Plot To Annihilate Christians- CAN

Daily Dispatch January 22, 2017

The Northern West zone of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, on Saturday raised alarm over alleged plot to annihilate the Christian community in the region through continuous demolition of churches. The alarm was raised by the zonal Chairman of CAN, Bishop David Bakare.  Worried by the continuous demolition of churches, Bakare asked, “Do we […]

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Edo To Build Seaport, Gov. Obaseki

Daily Dispatch January 22, 2017

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State on Saturday said the state government had concluded arrangements to build a seaport at Agenebode to fast track economic activities in the area. Obaseki stated this during the All Progressives Congress mega rally for the January 28 Etsako Federal Constituency by-election. The election is billed to hold in Agenebode […]

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Rann Error Airstrike: “Most of the dead and injured were women and children”-MSF

Daily Dispatch January 22, 2017

On 17 January at least 90 people were killed and 120 wounded in an airstrike carried out by the Nigerian military on a camp for displaced people in Rann, in the east of Nigeria‘s Borno state. An MSF medical team, which had started work in the camp just a few days earlier, provided first aid […]

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Invasion Of Premium Times: Call MilitaryTo Order‎, Nigerians Tells Buhari

Daily Dispatch January 21, 2017

Omooba Risawe Media practitioners and public analysists have called on President Muhammed Buhari to cautioned the military over the invasion of Premium Times,and arrest of publisher and a reporter by security operatives. The call was made on Friday on a live radio programme,\’gentlemen of the press\’ of Sweet F.M based in Abeokuta, Ogun State Capital. […]

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Premium Times: SERAP, NUJ drag FG, others to UN over ‘crackdown on journalists

Daily Dispatch January 20, 2017

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project and the Nigerian Union of Journalists have sent an urgent appeal to David Kaye, the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, requesting him to “urgently intervene to prevail on the Federal Government, the Nigerian Army, police and several […]