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Don’t politicise religion in Nigeria By Muhammadu Buhari

Daily Dispatch November 30, 2018

  IN 1844, the Revd Samuel Ajayi Crowther returned home to Yoruba land (now part of modern-day Nigeria). Twenty years earlier, he had been kidnapped and sold to European slave traders who were bound for the Americas. He was freed by an abolitionist naval patrol, and received by the Church

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Security: Buhari leaves for N’Djamena

Daily Dispatch November 29, 2018

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday left Abuja for N’Djamena, Chad to attend the meeting of regional leaders on the menace of Boko Haram. The President, who left in the morning is to chair a consultation of Heads of State and Government of the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC). The regional summit is also aimed to […]

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Obaseki, Oba of Benin’s efforts on retrieval of Stolen artifacts yielding results

Daily Dispatch November 28, 2018

…as Gov earmarks N500m for Benin Royal Museum By ABIODUN JIMOH Efforts by the Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki and the Benin Monarch, Omo N’ Oba N’ Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Oba Ewuare II, to retrieve artifacts stolen from the state in the colonial era are yielding results as European governments have set modalities in […]

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Central bank spends $20.91 billion in six months to defend naira

Daily Dispatch November 27, 2018

Within a space of six months this year, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has so far expended about $20.91 billion to stabilise the naira at the various segments of the foreign exchange (forex) market. These include its interventions during the second and third quarters of the year at the forex market derivatives such as […]

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Africa Still Lagging Behind Inspite Of Economic Growth – Obasanjo

Daily Dispatch November 27, 2018

Former President  Olusegun Obasanjo on Tuesday said Africa was still faced with low performance in education, health and food security in spite of economic growth on the continent. He also said that the continent was still bedevilled with poorly developed infrastructure, poor leadership and governance. Obasanjo said this in his  address of welcome  at the formal […]

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No Party Other Than APC Will Rule In South-West – Tinubu, says Nigeria will not return to era of greed and selfishness

Daily Dispatch November 27, 2018

National leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday lambasted the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, stressing that Nigeria will not return to the era of greed and selfishness. The former governor of Lagos State made this remark while insisting that no party other than APC will rule in the South-West. He […]