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Breaking: UK govt to return £4.2m Ibori loot

Daily Dispatch March 9, 2021

The United Kingdom has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to return the sum of £4.2 million assets stolen by former Delta State Governor, James Ibori to Nigeria. This was announced on Tuesday by the British High Commissioner to Nigeria,  Catriona Laing in Abuja, the nation’s

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Missing $9.5m PPT fund: CBN to appear before senate Tuesday

Daily Dispatch March 8, 2021

Barring last minute change of schedule, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will today, Tuesday appear before the upper chamber of the National Assembly over alleged missing $9.5 million interest accrued from Petroleum Profit Tax (PPT) investment. Specifically, the apex bank will appear before the Senate Committee on Public Accounts. The Committee Chaired by Senator […]

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Breaking: Watch your utterances, Army knocks Sheikh Gumi, others

Daily Dispatch March 8, 2021

The Nigerian Army has warned popular Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi and other “opinion merchants” in the country to exercise restraint with their utterances and not drag the Army to disrepute. The Army said contrary to Gumi’s statements to bandits recently that Christian soldiers were the ones killing the bandits, the Army does not deploy […]

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Sambo meets with Buhari, gives report on Niger Republic polls

Daily Dispatch March 8, 2021

Former Vice President, Namadi Sambo, Monday met with President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House in Abuja. During the meeting, the former vice president gave an update on his assignment as the ECOWAS Head of Mission on the election in the Republic of Niger. He told the President that he met with all the stakeholders […]

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Zulum begins N2bn worth of bus terminal with 593 lock-up shops, market stalls

Daily Dispatch March 8, 2021

Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum on Monday laid foundation for the construction a new bus terminal that is designed to have 593 lock-up shops and market stalls, the combination of which is valued at N2 billion. The 49,000 square meters concrete embedded bus terminal, sited along Bama road in Maiduguri, will comprise 373 lock […]

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Politicians offered bandits N57m not to release abducted Jangebe girls – Shinkafi

Daily Dispatch March 8, 2021

A chieftain of All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), Abdullah Shinkafi says some politicians in Zamfara State offered about 57 million naira to bandits, asking them not to release the Jangebe abducted girls. According to Shinkafi, the offer was a ploy to sabotage the peace accord championed by Governor Bello Matawalle, as to rubbish the governor’s […]