Vanguard Latest News Monday 1st February 2021
Vanguard Latest News Today and headlines on some of the happenings and news trend in the Country, today 01/02/21
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Zuma vows never to appear before South Africa’s anti-graft panel
South Africa’s beleaguered ex-president Jacob Zuma vowed Monday to not appear before a judicial panel probing corruption during his nine-year tenure, defying a court order compelling him to testify. Zuma, 78, has played cat-and-mouse with the commission since it was set up in 2018 to investigate looting of state coffers during his rule. He accuses theRead More
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Uganda: Bobi Wine files election challenge in court
Lawyers for Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine filed a challenge in the Supreme Court on Monday against President Yoweri Museveni’s victory in last month’s election, claiming the poll was rigged. “We want nullification of the election. We do not want (Museveni) participating in any future election,” said Medard Sseggona, one of Wine’s lawyers, at theRead More
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Buhari salutes Doyin Abiola at 75
President Muhammadu Buhari has felicitated with Dr Doyin Abiola, Nigeria’s first female newspaper editor and former Managing Director and Editor-in-Chief, Concord Press Nigeria Limited, on the occasion of her 75th birthday. In a congratulatory message by his spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, in Abuja on Monday, Buhari appreciated Abiola’s remarkable contributions to the growth of theRead More
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Biden withdraws $27.4b in spending cuts proposed by Trump – White House
U.S. President Joe Biden has withdrawn 73 budget cuts worth a combined 27.4 billion dollars, proposed by Donald Trump during the final week of his presidency, according to a letter addressed to Congress leaders. “I am withdrawing 73 proposed rescissions previously transmitted to the Congress,” Biden said in the letter. READ ALSO: Covid-19: Two healthRead More
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Religious leaders mobilize 100,000 preachers to organize prayer sessions on world peace
By Ibrahim HassanWuyo To commemorate the United Nation’s World international interfaith week and harmony, Christian and Muslim clerics in Kaduna led by Pastor Yohanna Buru have mobilized 100,000 preachers to offer prayers and fast for the attainment of world peace. The week usually start from First week of February every year( 1st-7th ) ,and theRead More
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Myanmar coup, Aung San Suu Kyi, and the burden of women in politics
By Victoria Ojeme While the rest of the world awaited the end of the long January of 2021, on February 1, Myanmar’s military seized power in a coup against the democratically elected government of Nobel laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi, who was detained along with other leaders of her National League for Democracy (NLD) partyRead More
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Equip military to battle insurgency, ex-governor Makarfi charges FG
…Tasks FG, state governments to be tolerant of critics …New service chiefs will bring new ideas- Sani By Dirisu Yakubu Former Kaduna State governor, Senator Ahmed Makarfi has called on the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government to equip the nation’s security architecture with the necessary wherewithal in the prosecution of the war against insurgency in theRead More
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Bidens’s Presidency and Okonjo-Iweala’s WTO DG Bid: Not yet Uhuru
By Henry Young The inauguration of Mr Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. as the 46th President of the United States of America (USA) brought to an end an era of drama following the Nov 3rd 2020 presidential election. Americans and the world heaved a sigh of relief on Jan 20th 2021 when Biden finally took theRead More
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India allocates over $30bn for healthcare, wellbeing
India on Monday allocated a total of 223,846 crore Indian Rupees (around 30.6 billion U.S. dollars) for “health and wellbeing” in budgetary proposals for the financial year 2021-22. This is as against the current year’s 94,452 crore Indian Rupees (around 13 billion U.S. dollars), which is an increase of 137 per cent. Federal Finance MinisterRead More
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Driver in court for alleged stealing of Guinness Brewery products worth N1.2m
A 47-year-old driver, Kehinde Ilesanmi, was on Monday arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly stealing Guinness Brewery products worth N1.2 million. The defendant was arraigned on a two-count charge of conspiracy and stealing. He, however, denied committing the offences. The Prosecutor, Insp. Emmanuel Ajayi, had told the court that the defendantRead More
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