Vanguard Latest News Tuesday 4th August 2020
Vanguard Latest News Today and headlines on some of the happenings and news trend in the Country, today 04/08/20
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ICYMI MURIC rejects 2020 WASSCE timetable, says it’s anti-muslim
By Luminous Jannamike ABUJA – Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has slammed the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) over the timetable it released for the conduct of the 2020 Secondary School Certificate Examinations (SSCE). The Islamic group rejected the timetable in a press release on Monday, saying the timetable clashes with the Friday Jumu’ah prayers. ItRead More
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Buhari orders payment of fees for stranded NDDC scholars
The director, Corporate Affairs, NDDC, Mr. Charles Odili has disclosed that scholars of the Commission facing hardship abroad over non-remittance of their fees and stipends would be paid by the end of this week, adding that President Muhammadu had given an order to the effect. Odili explained: “The delay in the remittance of the fees wasRead More
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PDP challenges Oshiomhole to present primary six certificate
As Obaseki approves 12.75km Ososo-Okpella road construction By Gabriel Enogholase BENIN – EDO State chapter of the Peoples Democratic party (PDP) has dragged the former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole to the court of public opinion, urging him to present his primary School Leaving Certificate if he actually wentRead More
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Hate speech: Broadcasting stations to pay N5m fine
By Osa Amadi From now onward, broadcasting stations in Nigeria that broadcast materials considered to be hate speech will pay between half a million and five million. This was revealed today in Lagos by the Minister of information and culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed. The minister, who made the disclosure in company of the acting DGRead More
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China talks tough, as Microsoft moves to acquire TikTok’s US operations
China will not accept the “theft” of a Chinese technology company and is able to respond to Washington’s move to push ByteDance to sell short-video app TikTok’s US operations to Microsoft, the China Daily newspaper said on Tuesday. The US’s “bullying” of Chinese tech companies was a consequence of Washington’s zero-sum vision of “America first”Read More
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Man United in ‘advanced talks’ to sign Dortmund’s Sancho for record fee
Borussia Dortmund winger Jadon Sancho is edging closer to a move to Man Utd with negotiations entering an ‘advanced’ stage, according to reports. A report in German publication Bild yesterday evening claimed that negotiations between the two clubs were ‘picking up speed’ while Dortmund expected that Man Utd would pay their €120m demands. And nowRead More
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Revival of ailing industries will strengthen currency — Expert
Mr Promise Amahah, an economic expert says revamping ailing industries and economic diversification in the country will help to strengthen the value of the Naira among world currencies. Amahah stated while reacting to the fall of the Naira amid COVID-19 pandemic during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Tuesday.Read More
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BREAKING: NDDC defends Akpabio’s list of contractors
*Says there ‘re more revelations *Stranded scholars to be paid this week *Buhari invited to commission N24bn Ogbia-Nembe Road in Bayelsa By Emma Amaize ASABA – THE Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, on Tuesday, said it stood by the list of prominent Niger Delta leaders released by the Minister of Niger Delta, Senator Godswill Akpabio,Read More
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Emergence of Third Force in Ondo 2020: Jegede runs to Mimiko for support
it’s too late ― ZLP Dayo Johnson – Akure THE candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ondo State, Eyitayo Jegede visited his former benefactor and immediate past governor of the state, Dr Olusegun Mimiko to seek for reconciliation and beg for his support ahead of the October 10 election. Mimiko who imposed Jegede on theRead More
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White House, U.S. Congress Democrats to continue effort on Coronavirus aid
Top White House officials and Democratic leaders in the U.S. Congress will try again on Tuesday to narrow gaping differences over a fifth major Coronavirus-aid bill to help stimulate the economy and possibly dispatch new aid to the unemployed. Several days of closed-door negotiations have so far yielded few results, according to the participants. “We’reRead More
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