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• Insecurity worsens: Herdsmen kill 144 in Plateau, Benue in 14 days

  17-04-2025 03:04 via vanguardngr.com
  By Umar Yusuf, Peter Duru, Marie-Therese Nanlong, Abel Daniel, Gabriel Ewepu & John AlechenuMAKURDI — No fewer than 144 persons have been killed by herdsmen in the two north central states of Plateau and Benue states in the last two weeks, as the blood-letting continued late Tuesday, with the killing of at least 13 persons, while scores of others sustained injuries, with over 50 houses razed.Recall that within the period, 104 persons, comprising 52 in Bassa local government area and a
  
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• The Invisible Engine Powering Businesses Across Africa

  16-05-2025 07:59 via vanguardngr.com
  As economic growth accelerates across Africa; the world’s second-fastest-growing region,
  hundreds of thousands of businesses still lack access to essential financial services.
  Ledig Technologies, a fintech innovator, is clearing the path for these businesses by harnessing
  blockchain to redefine financial inclusion. From transforming cross-border remittances to
  streamlining international payments, Ledig is dedicated to providing life-changing financial
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• Ways out of banditry, insurgency, by ex-generals, security experts

  16-05-2025 07:37 via vanguardngr.com
  –We need a million-man strong military force to tackle the menace — Brig Gen IDRIS BELLO (retd)
  –International diplomacy not working in Nigeria’s favour — MAJOR EFOZIEM
  –Address soldiers’ fatigue — MAJOR OLORUNBEBy Evelyn UsmanLAGOS — The nation has witnessed a fresh wave of terror as bandits and jihadist groups, notably from Boko Haram and the Islamic State West Africa Province, ISWAP, which have unleashed deadly onslaughts across the count
  
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• Woman drugs nursing mother, steals 2-month-old baby

  16-05-2025 06:35 via vanguardngr.com
  ASABA—Operatives of the Delta State Police Command have arrested a woman who drugged the mother of a two-month-old baby boy using juice and fled with the child.The State Commissioner of Police, Mr Olufemi Abaniwonda, who disclosed this yesterday during a briefing at the command’s headquarters, Asaba, said the baby had been rescued and reunited with his parents.Abaniwonda said the mother of the child had fallen asleep after drinking the juice injected with drug while on a business tr
  
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• Aftermath of banditry, kidnappings in Kwara: Government moves to confront growing threat

  16-05-2025 05:14 via vanguardngr.com
  By Demola AkinyemiIn recent months, Kwara State has found itself grappling with an alarming wave of insecurity marked by a surge in banditry and kidnappings – particularly in the Northern and Southern senatorial zones.What began as isolated incidents later morphed into a coordinated threat, with residents of Baruten and Kaiama local government areas in Kwara North and parts of Kwara South reeling from the violence of armed men believed to be affiliated with the Mahmuda terror group.The gr
  
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• NJC reforms restoring trust in Nigeria’s judiciary – Watchdog

  16-05-2025 04:49 via vanguardngr.com
  By Luminous JannamikeABUJA – A civic advocacy group, Judiciary Watch, has hailed the National Judicial Council (NJC) for taking firm and courageous steps to rid the judiciary of unethical practices and restore public trust in the justice system.The group commended the NJC’s decisive actions against judicial officers found guilty of misconduct, calling the measures a strong commitment to transparency, integrity, and accountability.In a statement signed by its Chairman, Mallam Bukar H
  
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• Local Automobile Industry Patronage Bill scales 2nd reading in Senate

  16-05-2025 04:22 via vanguardngr.com
  The Local Automobile Industry Patronage Bill, 2025, on Thursday, scaled second reading in the Senate.This followed the presentation of the lead debate on the general principles of the bill by the sponsor, Sen. Patrick Ndubueze (APC-Imo).Leading the debate, Ndubueze said that the bill sought to make it mandatory for Ministries, Departments and Agencies to give priorities to local manufacturers and indigenous companies in the procurement of goods and services.“And to prohibit the exclusion
  
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• Trade tensions: Global economy stands at fragile turning point – UN

  16-05-2025 04:16 via vanguardngr.com
  The UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) has said that the global economy stands at a fragile turning point amid escalating trade tensions and growing policy uncertainties.UN DESA, in a report published on Thursday, stated that tariff-driven price pressures were adding to inflation risks, leaving trade-dependent economies particularly vulnerable.It stated that higher tariffs and shifting trade policies were threatening to disrupt global supply chains, raise production costs, a
  
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• Drugs: Stop castigating Tinubu, UK-based professor warns

  16-05-2025 04:11 via vanguardngr.com
  BENIN CITY—A United Kingdom-based Nigerian legal practitioner and philanthropist , Professor Gaskin Igbineweka, has admonished Nigerians to desist from castigating and embarrassing President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on account of his alleged involvement in some legal matters in the United States.In a Press Release issued in Benin City Professor Igbineweka, who is also the President of the Nigerian Welfare Club in the United Kingdom, advised that people should stop deriding the President and that
  
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• LP crisis: Group accuses Abure of implementing APC’s agenda

  16-05-2025 03:57 via vanguardngr.com
  By John AlechenuABUJA -A socio-political group, Abia Concerned Citizens, ACC, has accused the Julius Abure faction of the Labour Party, LP, of playing a script written for it by the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to destabilize opposition parties in order to enjoy a free reign.The group specifically accused the factional chairman of playing the role of an “APC mole.”Director General of the ACC, Rose Ugoh, said this in Abuja, yesterday.She explained that evidence of Abure&rsq
  
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• Defections: We don’t want Nigeria becoming one-party state — APC

  16-05-2025 03:16 via vanguardngr.com
  ABUJA— The National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Mr Felix Morka, yesterday, said that despite the wave of defections, the ruling party has no desire to turn Nigeria into a one-party state.He said that when the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was in power, it controlled over 28 states without being accused of turning the country into a one-party state.Morka said there’s nothing wrong with PDP and Labour Party members defecting to the APC if they desire to
  
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• UTME glitches: Obi, Ezekwesili, others worry over impact on students, parents

  16-05-2025 03:07 via vanguardngr.com
  By Adesina Wahab, Henry Ojelu, Joseph Erunke & Gift Chapi OdekinaNOtABLE Nigerians including 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi, former Education Minister Oby Ezekwesili, and ex-FRSC Corps Marshal Osita Chidoka, have reacted to the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board’s, JAMB admission of errors in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME.While commending the JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, for owning up to the glitches, they expressed concern
  
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• UK to establish return hubs in 3rd countries for failed asylum seekers

  16-05-2025 02:59 via vanguardngr.com
  By Nkiruka Nnorom with agency reportUNITED Kingdom government, yesterday, said it plans to set up return hubs in third countries to hold asylum seekers with rejected claims before deportation.The UK Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, disclosed the plan during a state visit to Albania focused on tackling illegal migration.The UK leader has been under pressure since taking office to go tough on immigration amid Reform UK’s meteoric rise in the polls.Earlier this week, Sir Keir announced plan
  
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• God save Blacks from France as it invests in violence, by Owei Lakemfa

  16-05-2025 02:22 via vanguardngr.com
  The French establishment is, again, sowing the seeds of violence in Africa. As it is traditional with France, it will water such seeds, nurture them until they are ripe for harvest.In its latest genetically-modified violence-seed planting, France in May, 2025 set aside 150 million Euro through its French Development Agency to plant violence in Western Sahara. The fund is to enable the parochial-minded Moroccan Monarchy to recolonise its neighbour.The French mission is simple. It is aware t
  
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• Tinubu’s “Nigeria First” proposition

  16-05-2025 02:04 via vanguardngr.com
  Fresh from his recent eighth trip to France where he has spent over 80 days cumulatively in the past two years of his ascent to power, President Bola Tinubu has given what he calls a “Nigeria First” directive to all Federal Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs.Henceforth, procurements are to prioritise goods and services made in Nigeria over their foreign or imported counterparts. Explaining it further, Minister of Information, Mohammed Idris, said: “If there
  
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• The canonisation of Traore, by Donu Kogbara

  16-05-2025 01:12 via vanguardngr.com
  When Captain Ibrahim Traore seized control of Burkina Faso in September 2022 after ousting interim president Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, I cheered because I liked the cut of his jib.Millions of black folks the world over felt the same way about this bold, fearless, charismatic young Pan Africanist who wasn’t ready to put up with neo-imperialism or French domination.But I soon started to hear bad stories from Burkinabe journalists who accused him of being a toxic tyrant. So, I st
  
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• When former legislators gather to deepen democracy

  16-05-2025 01:08 via vanguardngr.com
  By LEVINUS NWABUGHIOGUThe idea was novel. The passion unparalleled and the commitment unwavering. Never in the political annals of Nigeria has it ever been thought into reality, but it happened, giving vent to a new democratic structure and institution: the Nigerian Former Legislators Forum, NFLF.Often overlooked is the vast reservoir of technical expertise, intellectual rigour, and legislative acumen that departs with each outgoing lawmaker at any level of democratic voyage, whether due t
  
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• Driving the ‘Nigeria First’ policy for our benefit, by Adekunle Adekoya

  16-05-2025 01:07 via vanguardngr.com
  ONE very laudable policy recently announced by the Tinubu administration is the Nigeria First policy initiative. Though not entirely new, and not original to the Tinubu administration, it is something which, if conscientiously implemented, has the capacity to turn around the Nigerian economy for good within a relatively short period of time. Readers might recall that in February 2018, President Muhammadu Buhari signed executive order no 5, titled “Presidential Executive Order 5
  
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• Tension brews as Ibadan Mogajis reject Alaafin as permanent chairman, council of Obas

  16-05-2025 00:43 via vanguardngr.com
  By Adeola BadruTension is mounting in Oyo State as the Central Council of Ibadan Indigenes (CCII), along with Mogajis, Baales, monarchs, and other prominent figures from Ibadanland, expressed strong opposition to the Oyo State House of Assembly’s move to appoint the Alaafin of Oyo as the permanent Chairman of the Oyo State Council of Obas and Chiefs.The Ibadan stakeholders urged the Assembly to avoid sparking discord, insisting that the chairmanship of the council should remain rotational
  
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• How Flick’s Barca wrestled La Liga back from Real Madrid

  16-05-2025 00:22 via vanguardngr.com
  Barcelona clinched the Spanish title on Thursday for the 28th time in the club’s history, but only the second occasion in the last six years.Hansi Flick’s hugely entertaining side beat Espanyol 2-0 to take the crown with two matches to spare.AFP Sport breaks down the ways the German coach helped the Catalan giants reclaim the Spanish throne from arch-rivals Real Madrid.Awesome attackFlick’s thrilling attacking outfit this season have shredded nearly every side to cross their p
  
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• DHQ dismisses viral video linked to terrorists’ attack in Borno

  16-05-2025 00:16 via vanguardngr.com
  By Kingsley OmonobiThe Defence Headquarters (DHQ) on Thursday night dismissed the viral video circulation on social media media handled purporting to show terrorists overrunning a military base in Marte, Borno State and killing some soldiersThe Defence Headquarters described the video as a disinformation campaign, saying it is footage from an occurrence at a different location which was first posted on 7 December 2020.Major General Markus Kangye, Director, Defence Media Operation, said the vide
  
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• Governors, traditional rulers meet to discuss monarchs joining state and National Security Councils

  16-05-2025 00:08 via vanguardngr.com
  “Our traditional rulers will now be involved in the management and governance of our people at the rural level,” say GovernorsBy Henry UmoruABUJA — As the review of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) begins at the National Assembly, the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) and the National Council of Traditional Rulers of Nigeria (NCTR) are working closely to recognize and assign formal responsibilities to the nation’s traditional institutions.The move aims to acknowledge tradi
  
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• Police launch manhunt for killers of lawyer, client in Anambra

  15-05-2025 23:47 via vanguardngr.com
  The police command in Anambra has launched a manhunt for suspected killers of a legal practitioner returning from the court, after securing bail for a defendant in a murder case.The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday in Awka.Ikenga said the gunmen also gunned down two others who accompanied the lawyer but one survived.He said that the three victims were returning from High Court II Ekwulobia in Orumba North Local Go
  
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• Pope Leo XIV invites Tinubu to his official inauguration on Sunday

  15-05-2025 23:43
  The newly elected leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV, has invited Nigerian President Bola Tinubu to his formal inauguration, which is scheduled for Sunday, May 18, 2025. The ceremony, which will mark the beginning of Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate as the 267th Bishop of Rome, will be held at St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican. In the invitation to the Nigerian leader signed on his behalf by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Pope Leo XIV highlighted the significance of Tinubu’s &ldqu
  
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• Barcelona win La Liga title after beating rivals Espanyol

  15-05-2025 23:37 via vanguardngr.com
  A stunning Lamine Yamal strike helped crown Barcelona La Liga champions with a 2-0 win at local rivals Espanyol on Thursday, with victory ensuring Real Madrid can no longer catch them at the top of the table.Yamal’s effort and a Fermin Lopez goal took Hansi Flick’s side seven points clear of Los Blancos with two matches remaining, to clinch their 28th title and complete a superb domestic treble.rbs/as
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• Real Madrid’s Asencio wants ‘presumption of innocence’ in underage sex video case

  15-05-2025 23:32 via vanguardngr.com
  Real Madrid defender Raul Asencio said Thursday a presumption of innocence “must continue to prevail” after he was indicted in a case involving the viewing and distribution of a sexual video involving a minor.The 22-year-old centre-back said in a statement that documents from a Gran Canaria court indicated that his possible involvement in the case was limited “to the possible momentary viewing of some images by a third party, without attributing any involvement to me in the re
  
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• Nigerian Defence Academy postpones screening test of 77 regular course

  15-05-2025 23:10 via vanguardngr.com
  By Kingsley OmonobiFollowing the decision of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to conduct fresh UTME exams for candidates due to its error in the last exam, the Nigerian Defence Academy has postponed the screening test for the 77 regular course.Spokesman of NDA Major Mohammed Maidawa made this known on Thursday night.He said, “The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) recently announced the rewriting of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) by c
  
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• Insecurity: Oyebanji seeks more police deployment in Ekiti

  15-05-2025 22:52 via vanguardngr.com
  Governor Biodun Oyebanji of Ekiti has called on the Nigeria Police authorities to deploy additional personnel in the state to further enhance security and address border criminal activities.Oyebanji made the call on Thursday, when he received the new Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG), Zone 17, Mr Ajani Omolabi, in his office in Ado-Ekiti.He urged the police to intensify efforts at enhancing security in the state ahead of the election season.He expressed concern over what he described
  
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• Rashford to miss final two games of Aston Villa’s season

  15-05-2025 22:34 via vanguardngr.com
  Marcus Rashford will miss the rest of Aston Villa’s season after being ruled out of Friday’s match against Tottenham Hotspur.Rashford’s hamstring injury will keep the loan signing out of Villa’s last home game and, with their final match coming against parent club Manchester United on May 25, it means the England forward’s campaign is over.The 27-year-old has been sidelined since last month and missed Villa’s 3-0 FA Cup semi-final defeat by Crystal Palace.His
  
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• Nigeria joins European Dev’t Bank

  15-05-2025 22:30 via vanguardngr.com
  By Emma Ujah, Abuja Bureau Chief  Nigeria has formally joined the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).The Federal Ministry of Finance said last night that the move would significantly boost private sector access to international capital and support the country’s long-term economic transformation.The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mr Wale Edun, led a high-level delegation to the EBRD 2025 Annual Meetings in London, where Nigeria&
  
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