Vanguard Latest News Friday 20th December 2019
Vanguard Latest News Today and headlines on some of the happenings and news trend in the Country, today 20/12/19
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E2%80%95-pdp-warns-buhari-apc/ Stay away from N2.1trn pension fund ? PDP warns Buhari, APC
By Dirisu Yakubu – Abuja
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has warned President Muhammadu Buhari not to dip hands in the N2.1 trillion pension fund to implement infrastructural projects in the country.
A committee headed by Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna state had in the course of the National Economic Council meeting in Abuja on Thursday, recommended the use of the fund to implement capital projects, including power, which has been a major challenge in the country for decades.
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E2%80%95-war-monitor/ More than 60 dead in latest Syria clashes ? War monitor
Clashes between Syria’s regime forces and armed groups in the country’s last major opposition bastion have killed more than 60 on both sides in the past 24 hours despite UN calls for de-escalation, a war monitoring group said Friday.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 38 jihadists and allied rebels had been killed in battles with regime forces in the northwestern province of Idlib since Thursday night.
The fighting near the jihadist-held town of Maaret al-Numan also killed 23 Syrian regime loyalists, the Observatory said.
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E2%80%95-ekiti-pdp/ Fayose sold our Party Secretariat ? Ekiti PDP
…Threatens litigation
By Rotimi Ojomoyela – Ado-Ekiti
The crisis rocking the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State deepened further, as the leadership of the party accused former governor Ayodele Fayose of selling the party secretariat to himself by proxy.
The party alleged that Fayose sold the secretariat, to one of his cronies without the knowledge of the State Working Committee (SWC).
The party chairman, Mr Gboyega Oguntuase, who made the allegation on Thursday, in Ado-Ekiti, while addressing newsmen on the recent development in the party, also threatened to sue the former governor if he failed to return what he described as the common patrimony of party members to the party.
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Security guard docked over alleged theft of lover’s N1.09m
Sunday Adole, a security guard, on Friday appeared at the Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, after he allegedly stole his lover’s Automated Teller Machine (ATM) cards and withdrew N1.09 million from the account.
Adole, 41, who resides at No. 9, Ijeun Street, Off AD Filling Station, Agege, Lagos is arraigned for stealing to which he pleaded not guilty.
The prosecutor, Sgt. Felicia Okwori, said the accused committed the offence in June, at Cement Area of Dopemu, Agege, Lagos.
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*****/ Love Scam: EFCC arraigns man who disguises as l******
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has arraigned one Kelechi Nwaturuocha before Justice Darius Khobo of State High Court Kaduna on a two-count charge bordering on impersonation and cheating
Kelechi sometime in 2019 disguised himself as a l****** named Donna Walshak on the social media and used the false identity to defraud one Vanessa Rose who sent him steam cards worth $1,900USD, which he converted to cash by selling same on the internet.
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OAUTHC doctors protest killing of colleague, demand justice
Doctors under the aegis of Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria (MDCAN) are presently embarking on a peaceful protest in Osogbo over the killing of Professor Jerome Elusiyan.
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Canadian PM to U.S.: Don’t sign China trade deal unless…
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called on the United States not to sign a trade deal with China unless Beijing agrees to release two Canadians detained since last year, prompting a defensive response from Beijing.
Former diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor have been held in China’s opaquCe legal system since they were apprehended on December 10, 2018, accused of espionage.
Their case is widely viewed by Canadians as retribution for the arrest of Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver just nine days prior.
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Ex-agitators rebuff Buhari sack of NDDC board, retaining interim mgt
EX-AGITATORS under the auspices of 21st Century Youth of Niger Delta and Agitators with Conscience, on Friday, rejected the latest decision of President Muhammadu Buhari to kick out the governing board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, and keep the Interim Management Team, IMT.
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Uighur: China slams EU parliament over sanctions resolution
Beijing on Friday accused the European Parliament of hypocrisy, after a resolution called for targeted sanctions against Chinese officials over the treatment of the Uighur minority.
China has faced international condemnation for rounding up an estimated one million Uighurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic minorities in internment camps in the northwestern region of Xinjiang.
Members of the European Parliament said on Thursday that China’s human rights record had worsened in the past year, and called for the Chinese government to “immediately end the practice of arbitrary detentions without any charge, trial or conviction”.
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Breaking: EFCC secures court order to detain ex-AGF, Adoke for 14 days
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Friday, secured an order from the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory sitting at Maitama, to detain the immediate past AtAttorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke, SAN, for 14 days.
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