NEWS

First Lady inaugurates pet project, focuses on women, youths

Daily Dispatch June 23, 2023

Nigeria’s First Lady, Sen. Oluremi Tinubu, has launched her pet project with the name, Renewed Hope Initiative, FHI. The programme which was launched at the Presidential Villa on Friday, she said, would have its focus on Nigerian women, children and youths. The First Lady, who spoke with

HEALTH

Bill Gates exposes what Nigeria governments spend on health per person compared to sub-Saharan Africa

Daily Dispatch June 21, 2023

The Co-chair, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Mr Bill Gates, has urged the Federal Government to improve investment in equitable solutions and in the people who are working on them. He said this during the Pan-African Youth Innovation Forum on Wednesday in Lagos, as part of activities for his visit to Nigeria. The Forum had […]

LEAD STORY 2

Tinubu appoints his former CSO as IG of Police

Daily Dispatch June 19, 2023

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the appointment of his former Chief Security Officer (CSO), DIG Kayode Egbetokun as the acting Inspector-General of Police. This is was revealed in a statement released on Monday by Willie Bassey, Director, Information for the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, George Akume. According to the statement which […]

NEWS

Okorocha to Lawan: Teach me how you came back to Senate without contesting

Daily Dispatch June 11, 2023

….you have nothing to learn from – Lawan replies Senator Rochas Okorocha, representing the lmo West senatorial District asked Senate President Ahmad Lawan to teach him how to return to the senate without participating in primary election during the valedictory session of the 9th Senate on Saturday, June 10. While Lawan and Okorocha contested the […]

NEWS

Group sues Tinubu over “failure to probe missing $2.1bn, N3.1trn of subsidy payments”

Daily Dispatch June 11, 2023

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu over “the failure to probe the allegations that USD$2.1 billion and N3.1 trillion public funds of oil revenues and budgeted as fuel subsidy payments are missing and unaccounted for between 2016 and 2019.” The suit followed the grim allegations documented […]

COLUMNS

Will Osinbajo rue missed opportunities?

Daily Dispatch June 11, 2023

By Bolanle Bolawale I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it, for I shall not pass this way again. – Stephen Grellet Some days ago when I watched, on […]