Vanguard Latest News Wednesday 24th February 2021
Vanguard Latest News Today and headlines on some of the happenings and news trend in the Country, today 24/02/21
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Zulum visits hospitals, confirms 10 dead, 47 injured after Boko Haram’s RPG hit Maiduguri
Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum was at two hospitals on Wednesday, after Boko Haram fighters fired shots from Rocket Propelled Grenades, on which killed 10 residents and 47 injured in Maiduguri.
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Supreme Court to deliver judgment in Rivers APC tussle March 5
The Supreme Court on Wednesday, fixed March 5, for judgment in the Rivers All Progressives Congress (APC) Caretaker Committee Chairmanship suit.
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Tiger Woods is awake, with rod, screws, bolts, pins holding shattered leg together
Tiger Woods is ‘awake and responsive’ in LA hospital after having a metal rod inserted into his shattered right leg and screws and pins in his ankle. Tiger Woods was put under general anaesthetic while surgeons repaired his shattered right leg using metal rods, pins and screws following a ‘horror’ crash in South Los AngelesRead More
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Okorocha: Angry reactions trail presidential intervention
By Chidi Nkwopara – Owerri Angry reactions have continued to trail the alleged intervention of the Presidency, when Senator Rochas Okorocha was arrested weekend, by the police in Owerri, for breaking the seal of Imo State Government. While the Commissioner of Information and Strategy, Declan Emelumba, claimed that the police released Okorocha late Sunday night,Read More
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Senegal must ready for ‘battle’ with jihadists, says president
Senegal’s President Macky Sall said Tuesday that his native country and neighbouring West African states must “prepare to do battle” to stop jihadist expansion beyond the Sahel. In an interview broadcast that day by French radio RFI, the president also urged a more combative role for United Nations peacekeepers in Mali, and ruled out dialogueRead More
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South Africa’s Zuma arms deal corruption case to be heard in May
South Africa’s scandal-tainted former president Jacob Zuma and French arms giant Thales, accused of graft in a case going back more than two decades, will go on trial in May, the High Court ruled Tuesday. Zuma is facing 16 charges of fraud, graft and racketeering relating to a 30-billion-rand ($2-billion / 1.67-billion-euro) purchase in 1999 ofRead More
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Niger opposition leader, Ousmane, claims election win despite official results
Opposition leader Mahamane Ousmane on Wednesday claimed he narrowly won Niger’s presidential elections, a day after official results said he lost by more than 11 percentage points. “The compilation of results… which we have in our possession through our representatives in the various polling stations give us victory with 50.3 percent of the vote,” heRead More
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Tipper driver crushes own conductor to death in Abia
Tragedy struck Wednesday in Umuahia the Abia State capital as a conductor was accidentally crushed to death by his own driver.
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Nigeria operating fatherism, not federalism —Adesina, AfDB boss
Twisted federalism responsible for sectional activism, says Akeredolu By Dayo Johnson PRESIDENT of African Development Bank, AfDB, Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, yesterday, lamented that Nigeria is not practicing true federalism, but fatherism. Adesina, who was the guest lecturer at the second inaugural lecture of Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, in Akure, said Nigeria’s system is essentially a revenue-sharingRead More
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Niger Delta Militants return, vow to destroy all infrastructure in Lagos, Abuja
By Nwafor Sunday The Niger Delta militants Tuesday threatened to destroy all the Federal government infrastructures in Lagos and Abuja over alleged marginalization of the region and failing to deliver on the amnesty programme. Disclosing this in a video posted on Africa Independent Television (AIT) Twitter handle, the Supreme Egbesu Liberation Fighters complained bitterly againstRead More
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