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Unions shutdown Arik Air over workers’ benefits

Daily Dispatch December 4, 2020

Aviation unions on Friday shutdown operations of Arik Air over alleged refusal of the management to fulfill an agreement on payments of workers’ terminal benefits. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the unions, the National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE) and Air Transport

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SGF urges Nigerians to access govt. interventions for better living standards

Daily Dispatch December 3, 2020

The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr Boss Mustapha, on Wednesday, charged Nigerians to avail themselves of government interventions to better their living standards. Mustapha gave the charge at a one-day Strategic Meeting with  Leaders of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) to Identify Service Delivery and challenges in MSMEs

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DHQ dismisses Boko Haram’s claim on rice farmers massacre

Daily Dispatch December 3, 2020

The Defence Headquarters has dismissed the claim by the Boko Haram terrorists that the recent massacre of rice farmers in Borno was retaliation for the arrest of one of them. The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, said this while giving update on the operations of the armed forces between Nov. 26 and Dec. […]

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Nigeria among first countries to develop COVID-19 kits, says Osinbajo

Daily Dispatch December 1, 2020

Nigeria is one of the first countries to develop cheaper and faster COVID-19 test kits, according to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.Osinbajo said on Tuesday in Abuja that such test kits would enable testing to be carried out in places experiencing kit shortages.The vice president, who was represented by the Deputy Chief of Staff, Mr Adeola […]

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Buhari appoints Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim DG, NAPTIP

Daily Dispatch December 1, 2020

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim as the new Director-General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP). A holder of BSc (Sociology), Masters of Arts (Management) and Masters of Business Administration (MBA) degrees, Mrs Sulaiman-Ibrahim, hails from Nasarawa State. Until her new

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[Breaking] Borno killings: Fire service chiefs now, Senate tells Buhari

Daily Dispatch December 1, 2020

The Senate, on Tuesday, asked the President Muhammadu Buhari to sack service chiefs as a result of their failure to secure Nigerians. The Senate decision, which is the third it would pass this year, followed a motion by Senator Kashim Shettima on the recent killing of 43 rice farmers in Borno State by the Boko […]