Vanguard Latest News Monday 2nd December 2019
Vanguard Latest News Today and headlines on some of the happenings and news trend in the Country, today 02/12/19
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100 beneficiaries graduate from senator Uba Sani’s Young Millionaires training scheme
The first batch of 100 young men and women who received agribusiness training sponsored by Kaduna Central Senator, Malam Uba Sani have graduated from their programme in Kaduna.
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Ihedioha promises to return glory to Imo through sports
By Chinonso Alozie
The Imo state governor, Emeka Ihedioha, on Monday said that with the launching of Imo sports festival glory will be returned to state and talents from Imo, will be exported outside the country.
Ihedioha spoke at Government House in Owerri, while lightening the touch for the 13th Imo sports festival with Chinasa Goodness Duru, as the torch bearer for this year’s Sports Festival.
He said the sports festival was part of his plan to return the state to the part of glory.
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Onyema, victim of foreign conspiracy, says Ekiyor
FORMER Commissioner in Delta State, Dr Chris Ekiyor, Monday, said there was a powerful foreign conspiracy against the Chairman of Air Peace, Mr Allen Onyema, pleading that the Federal Government should protect him.
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Court of Appeal upholds Governor Wike’s re-election, strikes out ADP’S appeal
The Court of Appeal sitting in Port Harcourt on Monday upheld the re-election of Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike as they struck out the appeal filed by the defeated Governorship Candidate of Action Democratic Party (ADP), Mr Victor Fingesi.
Mr Victor Fingesi had approached the Court of Appeal after the Rivers State Governorship Election Tribunal on October 5, 2019, dismissed his petition challenging the re-election of Governor Wike, PDP Governorship Candidate during the 2019 Election.
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NYSC registers 1,054 corps members in Abia
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The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) on Monday registered 1,054 corps members for the 2019 Batch C, Stream II orientation course in Abia for their one-year national service.
Mrs Bona Fasakin, NYSC Coordinator in Abia, disclosed this during the swearing-in ceremony of the corps members on Monday in Umunna, Bende Local Government Area.
READ ALSO: Estimated Billing: Group seeks speedy passage of bill criminalising act
Fasakin said that the corps members registered were 548 males and 506 females, cutting across the six geopolitical zones of the country.
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Estimated Billing: Group seeks speedy passage of bill criminalising act
A group, ‘Electricity Consumer Protection Forum’ has called for the speedy passage of the bill seeking to criminalise estimated billings by Electricity Distribution Companies (Discos) in the country.
Its National Coordinator, Mr Adeola Samuel-Ilori, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Monday.
Samuel-Ilori was reacting to a recent resolution of the Senate which urged the Federal Government to explore nuclear options in resolving Nigeria’s energy crisis.
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Breaking: After 15 months in Navy detention without trial, EFCC produces Captain Dada Labinjo
By Onozure Dania – Lagos
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday produced a naval chief, Captain Dada Labinjo, who had been in detention without trial for one year and three months, before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos.
Labinjo has been in the custody of the Nigerian Navy since September 2018.
The arraignment of the senior Naval officer on a two-count charge is going on before justice Muslim Hassan.
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BREAKING: South African policeman sentenced to 32 years for killing Nigerian
A South African court has just sentenced a South African police officer for the murder of a Nigerian, Mr Ebuka Okoli.
The sentencing took place at Durban, Kwazulu Natal Province, Monday
President of Nigerian Citizens in South Africa, NICASA, Mr Ben Okoli, told Vanguard that the police officer was sentenced to “25 years for the murder and two years each for two counts of armed robbery and another three years for robbery with aggravated circumstances.
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E-voting: Secondus charges INEC to lead initiative
By Dirisu Yakubu – Abuja
National chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to lead the initiative for the adoption of electronic voting in the country.
The PDP chair stated this yesterday while playing host to a delegation from INEC drawn from the department of Election and Party Monitoring, EPM.
Secondus while chiding INEC for the conduct of the 2019 general elections particularly scored the commission low on the recently concluded Bayelsa and Kogi states governorship elections, describing them as the worst in the nation’s political history.
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E-voting: Secondus charges INEC to lead initiative
E-voting
By Dirisu Yakubu
National chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to lead the initiative for the adoption of electronic voting (E-voting) in the country.
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The PDP chair stated this yesterday while playing host to a delegation from INEC drawn from the department of Election and Party Monitoring, EPM.
Secondus while chiding INEC for the conduct of the 2019 general elections particularly scored the commission low on the recently concluded Bayelsa and Kogi states governorship elections, describing them as the worst in the nation’s political history.
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