Vanguard Latest News Thursday 25th March 2021
Vanguard Latest News Today and headlines on some of the happenings and news trend in the Country, today 25/03/21
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Oil prices fall on demand worries
Oil prices fell over one per cent on Thursday amid persistent demand worries as Europe faces a surge of Coronavirus infections and a slow vaccination rollout. Brent crude for May settlement fell by 86 cents, or 1.3 per cent, to 63.55 dollars per barrel, after having jumped as much as 6 per cent on Wednesday.Read More
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‘97% of Kano households drink contaminated water’
Dr Aliyu Barau of Bayero University Kano (BUK) says 97 per cent of households in Kano state drink contaminated water. Barau, who disclosed this at a one-day seminar on drought in Kano city, on Wednesday, said that most drinking water in the state was contaminated by Escherichia coli (E.coli), a bacterium commonly found in theRead More
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Appeal Court Appointment: Senior lawyers back Akpata on proper screening
By Henry Ojelu & Onozure Dania Last week, the President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Mr Olumide Akpata raised concerns over the poor screening of candidates enlisted for appointment as Court of Appeal justices. Narrating his disappointment with the entire screening exercise, Akpata was reported to have told members of the NBA National ExecutiveRead More
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Policeman kills colleague while trying to arrest suspect in Abia
Tragedy struck in Aba, Abia State, yesterday when a yet to be identified policeman shot dead his colleague while trying to arrest a suspect.
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How bad road is killing our economy, devt — Onilude, Badagry LG boss
By Esther Onyegbula Olusegun Onilude is the chairman of Badagry Local Government Area of Lagos State. In this interview, Onilude laments the deplorable state of the Badagry Expressway saying it is negatively affecting the economy and development of the area. Excerpts: When you talk about the infrastructural deficit, for the past three years, what haveRead More
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Virginia becomes first state in US south to abolish death penalty
Virginia has become the first state in the U.S. South to stop executions after the state’s Governor, Ralph Northam, signed a piece of legislation to abolish the death penalty. The Democratic governor signed the death penalty repeal into law during a ceremony outside the Greensville Correctional Centre in Jarratt, Virginia, after touring the prison’s executionRead More
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Erinmope’s rain of fury: Over 200 houses destroyed, 1000 rendered homeless
•Govt should come to our aid — Centenarian, septuagenarian, others By Rotimi Ojomoyela LAST Friday evening, people of the agrarian community of Erinmope-Ekiti in Moba Local Government Area of Ekiti State, were expectant as the cloud had gathered. It was a relief from the scorching heat, so they thought, but little did they know thatRead More
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By-election fiasco: When Omuo-Ekiti became a theatre of war
•5 dead, scores injured, properties destroyed •3 suspected thugs nabbed, remanded •Fayemi, Police fume; APC, PDP in verbal war By Rotimi Ojomoyela IN what appeared like a dress rehearsal for what is to come in the 2022 governorship election in Ekiti State, Omuo-Ekiti Constituency 1 by-election was turned into a theatre of war last Saturday,Read More
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Forex, border control soar prices of fairly used cars
The prices of fairly used cars known as ‘Tokumbo’ have skyrocketed due to tight border control and soaring exchange rates. A cross-section of car dealers, who spoke with NAN in Abuja on Thursday, lamented that the development was stiffening them out of business. Alhaji Ali Adamu, a car dealer told the Agency that in theRead More
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NIJ appoints Kalesanwo as first female Registrar
The Nigerian Institute of Journalism (NIJ), Lagos, has appointed Mrs Patricia Kalesanwo as its first female Registrar since its establishment in 1971. The NIJ is Nigeria’s Premier Monotechnic. A statement on Thursday by the institute’s Provost, Gbenga Adefaye, said that the Segun Osoba-led Governing Council of the NIJ, confirmed the appointment of Kalesanwo as registrarRead More
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