Vanguard Latest News Thursday 28th May 2020
Vanguard Latest News Today and headlines on some of the happenings and news trend in the Country, today 28/05/20
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Buhari’s victory in 2015 saved Nigeria from collapse — Presidency
AS President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration clocks five years on May 29, the Presidency has said that the victory of the President in 2015 saved the country from total collapse.
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COVID-19: Do not cut health spending during downturn, WHO warns EU
European governments should not cut healthcare spending during the current economic crisis sparked by the coronavirus pandemic and associated lockdowns, the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned on Thursday. “We are concerned that countries will respond to this crisis in the same way they did to the recession 10 years ago… by cutting public spending onRead More
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Balotelli’s ‘mind no longer’ with Brescia, says club president
Mario Balotelli’s future with Brescia remains uncertain after the Italian club’s president said his “mind is no longer” with his hometown club. “Mario is an unusual boy and it is also obvious that his mind is no longer with us, nothing different from what he has always been,” Massimo Cellino told Telelombardia. “I love him,Read More
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Man begs wife seeking divorce to pray for him to stop drinking
A businessman, Shuaibu Abdullahi, on Thursday begged his wife who is seeking a divorce to pray for him so that he can stop his habit of drinking. Shuaibu Abdullahi also begged a Grade I Area court not to grant his wife’s application for divorce. The wife, Hassana, a businesswoman, in her petition prayed the courtRead More
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Lagos records 600 deaths in 10,000 okada accidents
Lagos State Government has said it recorded 600 deaths in 10,000 accidents connected with commercial motorcycles (okada) between 2015 and February 1, 2020.
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We’re still COVID-19 free, Kogi govt insists
The Kogi State Government, Thursday has denied the two index cases reported by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), insisting the state is still COVID-19 free.
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COVID-19: Rivers Government cuts 2020 budget by nearly half
By Egufe Yafugborhi – Port Harcourt Rivers State Government has slashed its 2020 budget size by nearly half, 48% from N530,813,357,619.00 Billion to 300,370,071,183.00 Billion. The state has also announced a free bus service for commuters in Port Harcourt and environs from Monday, June 1, 2020, through the coronavirus pandemic just as the dead canRead More
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Breaking: Buhari writes Senate, requests fresh $5.513 billion loan from external sources
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has written to the Senate, requesting for Fresh external borrowing to the tune of $5.513 billion.
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BREAKING: IMC mum as NDDC loses EDFA
Egufe Yafugborhi & Perez Brisibe – Port Harcourt Interim Management Committee, IMC, of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, remains tight-lipped as Acting Executive Director, Finance and Administration, EDFA, Chief Ibanga Etang is reported dead. Chief Etang was said to have passed on in the early hours of Thursday as his 6th-floor office at theRead More
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27km CMS-Okokomaiko rail transit line ready for passengers in 2022— Lagos govt
…opens bid for four other rail projects, clears 47 secondary drainage channels By Olasunkanmi Akoni Lagos State Government has said the first phase of the ongoing construction of 27-kilometer Rail Mass Transit (LRMT) Blue Line project from Marina to Okokomaiko will be ready in 2022. This came as government added that it has reinvigorated theRead More
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