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Lawyer raises alarm over N15 billion NDDC payments

Daily Dispatch July 5, 2020

· Urges Buhari, Lawan, Gbajabiamila to stop payment of N15 billion to contractors A legal practitioner, Mr. Godwin Ojeh, has lamented what he called corruption of self-enrichment in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), calling on President Muhammadu Buhari, President of the Nigerian

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Work Resumes On Abandoned Lafenwa-Rounda Road Project

Daily Dispatch July 2, 2020

By ABIODUN JIMOH, ABEOKUTA Ogun State Government, under the leadership of Prince Dapo Abiodun, has returned contractors to site to resume work on the Lafenwa-Rounda Road, which was abandoned by the immediate past administration. The last administration began the project but later left it uncompleted, bringing untold hardship to road users, pedestrians and residents within

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Independent Candidacy: ECOWAS Court dismisses suit against Nigeria

Daily Dispatch July 1, 2020

The ECOWAS Court of Justice on Wednesday, dismissed a suit by Obinna Umeh and three others, challenging the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria which bars independent candidacy in election contests. A three-member panel of justices presided by the court’s President, Justice Edward Asante, held that Nigeria did not breach any convention or charter. […]

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PDP Charges IGP, DSS To Act On Threats To Rivers State

Daily Dispatch June 30, 2020

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expressed concerns that despite the threats of bloody showdown by an All Progressives Congress (APC) gang alleged to be loyal to the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, which had gone viral, the security agencies are yet to take any action to stop the gangs and their sponsors from using […]

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Breaking: NCDC bill: Court dismisses suit filed by Dino Melaye

Daily Dispatch June 30, 2020

The Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday dismissed a suit filed by a former Kogi West senator, Dino Melaye, challenging some provisions of the controversial Control of Infectious Diseases Bill 2020, widely referred to as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control Bill. Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu upheld the notices of preliminary objection filed against the […]

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Court Orders Police To Pay N15m To Families Of 3 Shiites Members

Daily Dispatch June 29, 2020

The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, awarded the sum of N15 million against the Nigerian police over the alleged killings of three members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) also known as Shiites in Nigeria Justice Taiwo Taiwo, in his judgment, also ordered the National Hospital, Abuja, to immediately release the three corpses […]