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World Food Prices Rise to Near Two-Year High in January: U.N. FAO

Daily Dispatch February 2, 2017

World food prices rose to a near two-year high in January, driven by surges in sugar quotations and export prices for cereals and vegetable oils, the United Nations food agency said on Thursday. The Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) food price index, which measures monthly changes

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TCN To Complete 11 Power Plant 2017

Daily Dispatch February 1, 2017

The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) says it will complete 11 transmission projects to boost power supply in the country by the end of 2017. The Managing Director of TCN, Mr Abubakar Atiku, made the disclosure on Wednesday in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital. Mr Atiku expressed hope that the completion of the projects would increase electricity […]

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Turkish College Abduction: We Also Killed TV Reporter, Alli-Balogun – Suspects Confess

Daily Dispatch February 1, 2017

Some of the suspected masterminds of the syndicate who kidnapped pupils and staff members of the Nigerian Turkish International Colleges, NTIC, have confessed to the crime and opened up on other ills they committed in the past. Recall that the suspects on January 13 stormed the NTIC through a hole dug under the school fence […]

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Why I Quarrel With Kwankwaso- Ganduje

Daily Dispatch February 1, 2017

The Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has disclosed that his quarrel with his former boss and predecessor Rabiu Kwankwaso was as a result of  N300billion  liabilities before he vacated office in May 2015. The governor while speaking with newsmen in Kano said such a huge debt made it almost impossible for him to carry […]

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N1.2b Fraud: EFCC To Arraign Bala’s Son Tomorrow

Daily Dispatch January 31, 2017

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will tomorrow arraign Shamsudeen Bala, son of a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Senator Bala Mohammed, before Justice N. Dimgba of a Federal High Court, Abuja, over an alleged N1.2 billion fraud. A statement on Tuesday from EFCC spokesman Wilson Uwujaren said Bala, who is being […]

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900 Churches In North East Lost To Boko Haram-CAN

Daily Dispatch January 29, 2017

The youth wing of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), 19 Northern states‎, yesterday said over 900 churches have been lost to Boko haram terrorism in the North east. It therefore urged the Federal Government to rebuild the churches and also re-establish Nigeria Inter Religion Council (NIREC) with a view to curbing incessant religious violence […]