Vanguard Latest News Sunday 16th August 2020
Vanguard Latest News Today and headlines on some of the happenings and news trend in the Country, today 16/08/20
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Crack in Delta APC deepens as Erue, Ayomanor claim being chairmen
By Perez Brisibe THE cold war among members of the State Working Committee, SWC of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Delta State, nosedived Sunday as some members of the committee insisted that the purported sacking of the chairman of the party, Jones Erue stands with a former deputy chairman of the party, Elvis AyomanorRead More
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Kidnappers allegedly get N22m ransom, release four abducted Chinese in Calabar
By Emma Una CALABAR – THE four Chinese construction workers, Kan Jinxi, Hunjin Chang, Jiang Jijun and Cheng Quin abducted on the 22nd of July in the premises of Danatrite Construction company, Oban in Akamkpa Local Government Area of Cross River State have been set free. The four construction workers were set free in AkpabuyoRead More
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Instruct Minister, NBC to withdraw codes on ‘insult of govs, elders, leaders’, SERAP tells Buhari
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari urging him to “urgently instruct Mr Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture, and the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to withdraw the apparently illegal Broadcasting Code and Memo threatening to sanction any broadcast that denigrates, disrespects, insults, and abuses president, governors, lawmakers, and other elders and leaders in authority.”
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Police Sergeant allegedly extorts N1.8m burial fund from teenager
By Perez Brisibe UGHELLI – A police sergeant attached to Special Protective Unit, SPU Base 5, Benin-City, Edo State, has gone into hiding and abandoned his AK 47 rifle with serial number B11343170 and 30 rounds of ammunition after allegedly extorting the sum of N1.8million from a teenager whom he accused of being an internetRead More
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Rafael Benitez hits rock-bottom in China as search for first win drags on
Rafael Benitez hit rock-bottom in the Chinese Super League Sunday after Giovanni van Bronckhorst’s Guangzhou R&F extended Dalian Pro’s winless start to the season. Israeli international striker Eran Zahavi scored a first-half penalty to give R&F a badly needed 1-0 victory, van Bronckhorst’s first win as a coach in Chinese football. However, defeat for ChampionsRead More
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Sixty years after independence Gabon still a ‘home’ for French
Gabon on Monday marks 60 years since it gained independence from France, and yet a glance around the capital Libreville begs the question whether it has ever made a clean break from the former colonial ruler. The French influence still permeates every crack and crevice of Gabonese life from the language to the waft ofRead More
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Police arrest 11 suspected cultists during initiation in Calabar
The Cross River Police Command have arrested 11 persons during an initiation into a cult on Bishop Moynag Avenue, State Housing, Calabar. The command Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Irene Ugbo, said in a statement in Calabar on Sunday that the suspects were nine men and two women. He said that the suspects were arrestedRead More
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Yemeni al-Qaeda execute dentist for ‘spying’
Al-Qaeda militants in war-torn Yemen executed a dentist accused of spying for the government and guiding US drone strikes targeting the Islamist extremists, a local official said on Sunday. The jihadis shot Motthar al-Youssoufi, then crucified his corpse and left it outside his health centre, the official told AFP on condition of anonymity. The executionRead More
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THIRD TERM: Six dead as anti-Outtara protests continue in Ivory Coast
At least six people have now been killed in three days of clashes in Ivory Coast as protestors took to the streets following President Alassane Ouattara’s decision to run for a third term this October Four people had died in two days of clashes in the central town of Daoukro and the southern town ofRead More
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Hong Kong leader resigns from Cambridge fellowship
Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam late Saturday announced she had renounced an honorary fellowship from the University of Cambridge in England, following criticism of the city’s new national security legislation from British activists and politicians. Lam, a former British citizen and one-time civil servant, was given an honorary fellowship in 2017 by Wolfson College, a constituentRead More
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