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• 2027: Tinubu’s ‘plans’ to sweep S/East

  28-06-2026 06:16 via vanguardngr.com
  
  …with govs’ alignment•But will projects in region sway voters?By Soni Daniel, Northern Region EditorTHEY are in three different parties for now but within their inner recesses, something is working together. Three of the South-East governors are working hard to return to office in 2027 and one will strive to implant a successor he can always turn up to after leaving office next year.
  On top of these political designs is a much higher desire: the re-election of their principal-
  
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• Oyo forest ambush: Sunday Igboho confirms recovery of injured ‘Iru Ekun’ operatives

  29-06-2026 11:00 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Adeola BadruYoruba Nation advocate Sunday Adeyemo, widely known as Sunday Igboho, has confirmed that members of his private security outfit, Iru Ekun, who sustained injuries during an ambush by suspected bandits in the Old Oyo National Park, Oyo State, have fully recovered.Igboho disclosed this in a video message released, where he dismissed widespread rumours regarding his well-being, assuring supporters that he was safe and in good health.He further revealed that the injured operatives had
  
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• FG bans ‘okada’, ‘keke marwa’ on Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway

  29-06-2026 10:55 via vanguardngr.com
  
  The Federal Ministry of Works has announced a ban on commercial motorcycles and tricycles on the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway.The restriction, which takes effect this week, was announced in statement on Sunday by the Federal Controller of Works in Lagos State, Mr Olufemi Dare.Dare said the decision was introduced to protect the newly constructed superhighway from misuse and deterioration.He explained that the measures were necessary to preserve the road and ensure its long-term sustainability.
  
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• Resident doctors extend strike ultimatum by four weeks

  29-06-2026 10:10 via vanguardngr.com
  
  The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has extended by four weeks its expired 21-day ultimatum to the Federal Government, warning that it may embark on industrial action if its demands remain unmet.The decision was contained in a communiqué issued at the end of the association’s Extraordinary National Executive Council (E-NEC) meeting, held virtually on Saturday.The communiqué was jointly signed by the NARD president, Dr Mohammad Suleiman; secretary-general, Dr
  
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• US says Iran talks to continue, ‘both sides’ pausing strikes

  29-06-2026 10:02 via vanguardngr.com
  
  A US official said Sunday that Washington and Tehran agreed to halt attacks after new tit-for-tat strikes strained their interim deal, with the sides planning to renew talks aimed at ending the Middle East war.The exchanges have underscored the fragility of a Pakistan-brokered agreement to end the conflict that has killed thousands and snarled the flow of oil shipments through the vital Strait of Hormuz.Although a ceasefire took effect in April, sporadic violence has flared up in the Gulf regio
  
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• ‘They’re coming for us’: Atiku warns of plot to keep ADC off 2027 polls

  29-06-2026 09:54 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Omeiza Ajayi, AbujaFormer Vice President and Presidential Candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Atiku Abubakar, has raised the alarm over what he described as a fresh and coordinated attempt by elements within the ruling establishment to deploy political and legal machinations to keep his party off the ballot ahead of the 2027 general election.Atiku disclosed this on Monday in Abuja through his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu.The former Vice Pres
  
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• Five die, eight injured in Niger road crash

  29-06-2026 09:44 via vanguardngr.com
  
  Five persons have been confirmed dead, while eight others sustained critical injuries in a road crash that occurred on Sunday in Agaie, Agaie Local Government Area of Niger.Mr Hussaini Guregi, Desk Officer of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in Agaie LGA, confirmed the incident to newsmen.Guregi said the accident involved a trailer conveying about 40 passengers and a tanker.He explained that the trailer was travelling from Gusau in Zamfara to Shagamu in Ogun State when the crash
  
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• Xenophobia: Next evacuation flight leaves South Africa Tuesday – FG

  29-06-2026 09:32 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Favour Ulebor, AbujaThe federal government has confirmed that the next evacuation flight bringing Nigerians home from South Africa will depart on Tuesday as efforts continue to ensure the safety of citizens following fears of possible xenophobic attacks.Speaking with Vanguard on Monday, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kimiebi Ebienfa, said an Air Peace aircraft departed Nigeria on Monday and would return with another batch of evacuated Nigerians on Tuesday morning.The l
  
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• Dollar to Naira exchange rate today, June 29, 2026

  29-06-2026 08:18 via vanguardngr.com
  
  The Nigerian naira traded at an official exchange rate of ₦1,379.22 per United States dollar at the Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market (NFEM) on Monday, June 29, 2026, according to the latest available market data.The official rate indicates that $100 would exchange for about ₦137,922 at the NFEM window, while $1,000 would be worth approximately ₦1.379 million at the prevailing rate.
  In the parallel market, commonly referred to as the black market, the dollar traded around ̓
  
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• AfCFTA lifts Nigeria’s intra-African trade by 21% to $9.02bn in 2025

  29-06-2026 08:12 via vanguardngr.com
  
  Nigeria recorded a 21 per cent increase in intra-African trade in 2025, with total trade rising to $9.02 billion as the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) continued to unlock new export opportunities and deepen regional commercial integration, as businesses leveraged preferential market access and lower trade barriers.The latest African Trade Report 2026 released by Afreximbank showed that Nigeria’s trade with the rest of Africa increased from $7.47 bi
  
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• SMEDAN unveils N500m zero-interest fund for MSMEs

  29-06-2026 08:03 via vanguardngr.com
  
  ByYinka KolawoleThe Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) has unveiled Grow Fund for Small Businesses in Nigeria, a N500 million zero-interest fund for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in the country.SMEDAN Director-General, Charles Odii, announced the initiative, in Abuja, as part of activities to mark the 2026 World MSME Day.Odii said the revolving loan would be disbursed through cooperatives, trade unions, business member organisations and associ
  
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• FG unveils 2026 push for industrial growth, trade, investment

  29-06-2026 08:00 via vanguardngr.com
  
  The Federal Government is set to intensify efforts to drive industrial growth, expand trade, mobilise investment and boost non-oil exports in 2026 as part of its economic diversification agenda.Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr. Jumoke Oduwole, stated this at a management retreat for directors-general, directors and chief executives of agencies under the ministry.She said the focus is to translate policy into measurable economic outcomes through stronger implementation, collab
  
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• Export rerouting erodes Nigeria’s gains despite N7.55trn trade surplus — NESG

  29-06-2026 07:57 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Yinka KolawoleThe Nigerian Economic Summit Group, NESG, has warned that export rerouting through neighbouring countries is undermining Nigeria’s trade competitiveness and depriving the economy of significant domestic value, despite the country’s impressive N7.55 trillion trade surplus recorded in the first quarter of 2026.The warning comes as data from the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, showed that Nigeria’s total merchandise trade rose to N34.79 trillion in
  
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• Illusions of $1trillion economy soon

  29-06-2026 07:49 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Dele Sobowale
  If it takes a whole minute to produce a fool in America, then Nigeria must be bringing them in at the rate of one a second. Nigerian politicians operate on the Barnum principle. Depending on who is dishing out the false dream, most Nigerians will believe anything.Trust politicians and their creative advisers. Every time governments fail to deliver on their most important promises to the nation, they invent a magical future to divert attention from the poor results. In
  
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• Photos: Top ISWAP commanders surrender as military intensifies offensive

  29-06-2026 07:40 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Ndahi Marama, MaiduguriThe Nigerian military has recorded another breakthrough in its counter-insurgency campaign in the North-East as a fresh group of top leaders of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) surrendered to troops of the Joint Task Force (North East), Operation HADIN KAI (OPHK), following sustained military offensives.The development came as 76 terrorist foot soldiers, alongside some of their family members, also laid down their arms and surrendered to troops within the
  
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• Nigeria eyes local vet drug manufacturing

  29-06-2026 07:39 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Cynthia AloNigeria could soon begin producing veterinary hormonal drugs locally, as Chromedix Pharmaceuticals Limited has approached the Federal Ministry of Livestock Development (FMLD) with a proposal to build the country’s first manufacturing facility for such products.This comes five months after the ministry raised alarm over the persistent circulation of substandard and falsified veterinary drugs in the country.The minister blamed local manufacturing and distribution cha
  
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• FG, others struggling to meet obligations, despite rise in revenue to N118.8trn

  29-06-2026 07:34 via vanguardngr.com
  
  ***Revenue may hit N150trn by year end***Civil society groups raise alarm, call for outcome-driven approach to public spendingBy Emma Ujah, Abuja Bureau ChiefRecent findings from the Revenue Mobilization, Allocation and Fiscal Commission, RMAFC, has indicated that the three tiers of governments in Nigeria have received about N53.3 trillion from the Federation Account Allocation Committee, FAAC, over the past three years (2023 – May 2026).Also their independently generated revenues over th
  
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• Stock market sustains profit taking, as investors lose N2.4trn

  29-06-2026 07:15 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Peter Egwuatu  The Nigerian stock market has sustained profit taking for second consecutive weeks, as investors lost over N2.4 trillion to price declines.The investors had lost over N5.6 trillion the previous week following massive selloff in high and mid capitalised stocks.Market analysts are of the view that the negative close reflects the market’s current phase of consolidation following an impressive rally that has seen the Nigerian Exchange, NGX, deliver one of
  
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• Malaysia seeks local partnership to fill Nigeria’s palm oil supply gap

  29-06-2026 07:10 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Cynthia AloThe Malaysian Palm Oil Council, MPOC, has pledged to support Nigeria with technical expertise, research collaboration and investment opportunities to help close the country’s estimated one million metric-tonnes palm oil supply gap.The council also announced the establishment of a representative office in Lagos as part of efforts to deepen engagement with stakeholders across Nigeria’s palm oil value chain.Speaking at the Malaysia Market Connect programme held
  
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• The Senate that cannot say nay

  29-06-2026 04:28 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Moshood Oshunfurewa
  The 10th Senate under President Godswill Akpabio presents a compelling case study of democratic corrosion masked as efficiency. In just two years, this chamber has introduced 844 bills, a figure trumpeted as unprecedented, yet these raw numbers obscure a deeper institutional crisis. The Senate has become the executive’s most reliable political vassal, a body where opposition is not so much defeated as it is rendered irrelevant.According to some lawmakers and po
  
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• Ọwọ́ àwọn agbofinro tẹ arábìnrin Princess, tó jẹ́ ọ̀gá àwọn afipámu awon ọ̀dọ́bìnrin sínú iṣẹ́ ìnàbì; ìbúgbàmù ṣẹlẹ̀ ní Mushin

  29-06-2026 03:33 via vanguardngr.com
  
  L’ọ̀sẹ̀ yìí lórí ètò Ìwòyé: Ọwọ́ ọlọ́pàá tẹ arábìnrin Princess, tó jẹ́ ọ̀gá àwọn afipámu ọmọ kékeré sínú iṣẹ́ inabi; ibugbamu ṣẹlẹ̀ ní Mushin; ọ̀gá First Bank gba àpò
  
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• Judges as undertakers, state disorder and State Police, by Owei Lakemfa

  29-06-2026 03:33 via vanguardngr.com
  
  My Lord, Honourable Justice Isah Dashen of the Federal High Court, Lokoja, was beaten to second place by his colleague in Abuja, Honourable Justice Peter Lifu, in the race for the judge that constitutes the gravest danger to democracy.Justice Lifu was so much in a hurry to claim the title that when the Court of Appeal ordered him to arrest his intended judgment, he flouted the order and overruled the appellate court by ordering the deregistration of the African Democratic Congress, AD
  
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• Three notes on the Nigerian moment

  29-06-2026 03:13 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By SULEIMAN A. SULEIMANI was an avid reader of the THISDAY Backpage columnists in the late 1990s to the early 2000s, from Dr Amanze Obi on Mondays to Waziri Adio on Sundays. Somewhere in the middle of the pack was always Simon Kolawole, who would end his columns with “And Four Other Things…”, where he would dispense with four other issues in a series of short and sharp comments after the main article. It became his signature style, and he does it still at TheCable.
  
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• Tiamiyu Ibrahim emerges NAUS national president

  29-06-2026 02:56 via vanguardngr.com
  
  The National Association of University Students, NAUS, has declared Tiamiyu Ibrahim of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, as its president.The decision, reached by a majority of the association’s national stakeholders at a meeting held over the weekend in Abuja, followed what they described as Ibrahim’s sacrifice in stepping down during the previous electoral process in the interest of unity.The stakeholders, in a statement on Saturday signed by the association&rsqu
  
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• YADI, NYSC member champion drug-free Schools campaign with academic competitions

  29-06-2026 02:50 via vanguardngr.com
  
  The Youth Against Disaster Initiative (YADI), in partnership with a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member, Abdulhameed Yushau, organized academic competitions for secondary school students in Abuja as part of efforts to discourage drug abuse among young Nigerians.The contests formed the grand finale of the Drug-Free Schools Initiative, a youth-focused advocacy programme designed to educate students on the dangers of substance abuse while promoting responsible decision-making, healthy lifes
  
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• Osun 2026: My campaign not tied to criminality, Oyebamiji declares

  29-06-2026 02:42 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Godwin OritseThe governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the 2026 off-cycle election in Osun State, Asiwaju Munirudeen Bola Oyebamiji, has accused opposition elements of impersonating the party by branding vehicles in APC campaign colours to perpetrate criminal acts and tarnish his image.Oyebamiji made the allegation on Friday while addressing journalists after observing the Jumat prayer with Muslim faithful at the Mallam Tope Central Mosque in Osogbo.The APC govern
  
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• Roiea receives top Afrobeats honour at AGEA

  29-06-2026 02:39 via vanguardngr.com
  
  Emerging Afrobeats artiste Chima Emmanuel Ugwuadu, known professionally as Roiea, has added a new accolade to his growing career after receiving the Best Afrobeats Artiste of the Year award at the African Global Excellence Awards (AGEA).
  The event, which held recently in Lagos, gathered entertainers, music executives, media figures and fans for an evening that spotlighted achievements across Africa’s entertainment space. Among the names recognised on the night, Roiea stood out as one of t
  
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• Forest security: The foundation of Nigeria’s future economic prosperity

  29-06-2026 02:25 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By YUSUF KOLAWOLE African wisdom teaches that “He who guards the forest today preserves the wealth of generations yet unborn.” This timeless proverb encapsulates the strategic importance of securing Nigeria’s forests, not merely as ecological assets but as pillars of economic sustainability and national prosperity. In a country blessed with vast forest reserves and abundant natural resources, the safety and proper management of these forests have far-reaching implica
  
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• Motorists, commuters stranded as floods submerge Lagos roads

  29-06-2026 02:07 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Olasunkanmi AkoniLAGOS—Torrential rainfall brought commercial and vehicular activities to a standstill across Lagos, yesterday, as flash floods submerged major roads, caused motorists and commuters, to be stranded and triggered hours of traffic gridlock in several parts of the metropolis.The heavy rain, which began at about noon and lasted until around 4 p.m., inundated highways and inner-city roads, leaving many vehicles trapped in floodwaters while others broke down, worsening traffi
  
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• Lagos school emerges winner of 10th Edition of Tolaram Science Challenge

  29-06-2026 02:02 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Efe OnodjaeIwerekun Community Senior High School, Ibeju-Lekki, has emerged the winner of the 10th edition of Tolaram Science Challenge (TSC), marking their third consecutive win. The school triumphed over Magbon-Alade Senior Grammar School in a keenly contested grand finale of the competition.The Tolaram Science Challenge, sponsored by Lagos Free Zone, is an annual science competition for schools in the Ibeju-Lekki axis of Lagos and has become a flagship contest that brings together bri
  
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