Vanguard Latest News Sunday 7th February 2021
Vanguard Latest News Today and headlines on some of the happenings and news trend in the Country, today 07/02/21
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COVID-19: AstraZeneca vaccine less effective against South African variant — Study
By Sola Ogundipe The AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine appeared to offer only limited protection against mild disease caused by the South African variant of COVID-19, the results of a new trial have suggested. Early data from a trial conducted at South Africa’s University of the Witwatersrand and Oxford University showed the two-step vaccine had significantly reduced efficacyRead More
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COVID-19: AstraZeneca vaccine less effective against South African variant – Study
By Sola Ogundipe The AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine appeared to offer only limited protection against mild disease caused by the South African variant of COVID-19, the results of a new trial have suggested. Early data from a trial conducted at South Africa’s University of the Witwatersrand and Oxford University showed the two-step vaccine had significantly reduced efficacyRead More
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Abia Stakeholders to Police: Fish out hoodlums behind attack on Omoba Police station
By Ugochukwu Alaribe – Umuahia Stakeholders of the Isiala Ngwa North and Isiala Ngwa council areas, have condemned the burning of the Omoba police station and killing of a policeman in the area and urged the Police fish out those behind the act. Recall that yet to be identified hoodlums, numbering about 20, had razedRead More
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NASS reassures on Electoral Act
The National Assembly has reassured that it will submit the Electoral Act Amendment Bill to President Muhammadu Buhari for his assent before the end of February. Sen. Kabiru Gaya, Chairman, Senate Committee on Independent National Electoral Committee (INEC)disclosed this when he spoke at a forum of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja. “WeRead More
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Abducted Punch Newspapers reporter, 2 others set free
Punch Newspapers reporter Okechukwu Nnodim, abducted on Feb. 3 with two other persons at their houses in Kubwa, Abuja has been released, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. Nnodim’s wife, Mrs Oluchi Nnodim, confirmed the release of the journalist on Sunday, saying that her husband was released at midnight on Saturday. She said thatRead More
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Iran won’t resume nuclear commitments until US lifts sanctions — Khamenei
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said Sunday the US must “completely lift” sanctions first, followed by verification by Tehran, before the Islamic republic returns to its nuclear deal commitments. “If they want Iran to return to its commitments … America must completely lift sanctions, and not just in words or on paper,” Khamenei saidRead More
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$500m World Bank electricity fund: SERAP flays approval, calls for publication of documents
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has urged the World Bank to release archival records and documents relating to spending on all approved funds to improve access to electricity in Nigeria between 1999 and 2020.
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Eschew cyber crimes, secret cult activities, UNN VC cautions matriculants
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nigeria Nsukka, UNN, Prof. Charles Arizechukwu Igwe, on Saturday warned the matriculating students of the institution to shun cyber-criminalities and any form of cult-related activities or face expulsion.
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NASS reassures on Electoral Act
The National Assembly has reassured that it will submit the Electoral Act Amendment Bill to President Muhammadu Buhari for his assent before the end of February. Sen. Kabiru Gaya, Chairman, Senate Committee on Independent National Electoral Committee (INEC)disclosed this when he spoke at a forum of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja. “WeRead More
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Principle of ‘no work no pay’ should apply to lecturers,others in Nigeria — COPCSUN Chairman
By Demola Akinyemi – Ilorin The Chairman, Council of Pro Chancellor of State Universities in Nigeria(COPCSUN), Mallam Yusuf Olaolu Ali(SAN) has tasked stakeholders in Nigerian education system to stop paying workers salaries while on strike,as being done in developed countries of the world in order to reset the nation’s collapsed education to achieve its desiredRead More
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