Vanguard Latest News Wednesday 17th February 2021
Vanguard Latest News Today and headlines on some of the happenings and news trend in the Country, today 17/02/21
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Akwa Ibom ex-militants laud Dikio, Presidential Amnesty Office boss for rekindling hope in Niger Delta
Akwa Ibom State Phase Two ex-militants Forum has lauded the leadership style of the interim administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Col. Milland Dikio (retd), saying it has brought visible changes in the office.
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Oke, Fagbohun, LASU celebrate Okebukola as he retires
The Acting Vice-Chancellor, Lagos State University, LASU, Prof. Oyedamola Oke, the immediate past Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof. Olanrewaju Fagbohun, SAN, and the management and staff of LASU have poured encomiums on the Distinguished Professor Peter Okebukola as he clocked 70 years on Wednesday and thereby retiring from the university.
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Anti-rabies: Lagos targets 1.5M dogs for vaccination
Lagos State Government said it would vaccinate at least 1.5 million dogs in the next two weeks during its current free anti-rabies vaccination campaign in the state to prevent unwanted deaths.
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Enugu community petitions IGP over activities of land grabbers
…Says they want to set the community on fire By Anayo Okoli ABOR community, Udi Local Government Area of Enugu State has sent a Save-Our-Soul petition to the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, over what they called intimidation, harassment and threat to life by certain land grabbers who they alleged want to forcefully take overRead More
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Updated Niger school abduction: Ensure immediate, safe return of all captives, Buhari tells security agencies
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday gave marching orders to security agencies to as a matter of urgency ensure the immediate and safe return of all those abducted by gunmen at the Government Science College, Kagara, Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State.
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AfCFTA: Mapping Nigeria’s foray into Africa’s single market
By Yinka Kolawole The African Continental Free Trade Agreement, AfCFTA, is a continent-wide trade pact aimed at tearing down barriers to commerce among African countries. It is focused on trade liberalisation across the continent and provides for progressive elimination of tariff and non-tariff barriers and development and promotion of regional and continental value chains. TheRead More
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Breaking: Buhari orders operation to rescue abducted Niger schoolboys
President Muhammdu Buhari has ordered a military operation to rescue hundreds of schoolboys abducted in Niger state by suspected bandits
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Reps grill new Service Chiefs on professional skills, terrorism, military spending, insecurity, others
House of Representatives has commenced the screening of the new Service Chiefs appointment recently by President Muhammadu Buhari.
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Breaking: Reps, Service Chiefs in closed session after screening
The House of Representatives, after a thirty-minute opening of screening session of nominated Service Chiefs on Thursday, went along with the nominees, into a closed session.
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Customs impounds unregistered drugs, contraband worth N869m
By Godfrey Bivbere THE Federal Operations Unit, Zone ‘C’ of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS C’ has said that it intercepted various contrabands with a Duty Paid Value, DPV, of N869.5 million in January 2021. The seized items include 1,024 cartons of unregistered pharmaceutical products, 1,046 bags of foreign parboiled rice of 50kg each, 290Read More
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