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• 9/11 attack mastermind to face trial in 2028

  27-08-2026 09:39 via vanguardngr.com
  A military court will try the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks starting in June 2028, multiple US media outlets reported Wednesday citing a judge’s ruling.Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was considered one of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s top lieutenants before he was captured in March 2003 in Pakistan.He was imprisoned in secret CIA facilities for three years before arriving at the US military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in 2006.AFP
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• 2027: Why Yari’s ‘APC till 2031’ claim rattled opposition

  29-08-2026 07:52 via vanguardngr.com
  By Luminous JannamikeWhen Senator Abdul’Aziz Yari returned to Abuja from an overseas trip and, barely 24 hours after his unveiling as Director-General of President Bola Tinubu’s Presidential Campaign Council, began talking about APC remaining in power beyond 2031, he was doing more than expressing confidence in his principal.Read Also: 2027 Campaign: What we want to hear from candidates – StakeholdersThe former Zamfara governor was, perhaps inadvertently, opening an early fron
  
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• Moody’s changes Nigeria’s outlook to positive, affirms B3 rating

  29-08-2026 07:49 via punchng.com
  
  Moody’s has upgraded Nigeria’s credit outlook to positive from stable, affirming its B3 rating. This reflects improved external position and stronger econoRead More: https://punchng.com/moodys-changes-nigerias-outlook-to-positive-affirms-b3-rating/
  
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• Spectacle of Sacrifice: Who truly owns spoils of Nigeria’s fuel subsidy autopsy?, by Stephanie Shaakaa

  29-08-2026 07:46 via vanguardngr.com
  When the presidential fiat dissolved decades of petroleum consumption support, it was sold to the public not merely as a policy adjustment, but as an act of economic radicalism, a bitter surgical incision required to save a bleeding republic from terminal bankruptcy. For over thirty years, successive administrations skirted the perimeter of the problem, terrified of the social fury price deregulation would unleash. Yet when the announcement finally landed, it carried the finality of an irrevoca
  
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• Why some exes never truly leave, by Stephanie Shaakaa

  29-08-2026 07:40 via vanguardngr.com
  The air in a failing relationship does not turn cold all at once, it thins out, suffocating you so gradually that you learn to live on the vapor of what used to be love. There is a modern, clinical term circulating through the digital echo chambers for how women, in particular, are choosing to survive this slow death of intimacy. They call it “dating them till you hate them.” It is framed as a tactical hack, a form of emotional quiet-quitting where a woman stays in a dead-end relati
  
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• The Soundtrack of Our Lives: A canonical farewell to Dolly Parton my mother’s only artist, by Stephanie Shaakaa

  29-08-2026 07:40 via vanguardngr.com
  There is a very specific, sacred kind of education that comes from growing up inside a household where a mother’s devotion to Dolly Parton is absolute, unyielding, and daily. You did not just listen to music as a child, you lived inside an audio biography, an ongoing domestic soundtrack that filled the hallways whether you asked for it or not. Long before you ever understood the complex architectures of heartbreak, professional ambition, or Appalachian folklore, you knew the exact ca
  
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• Four children gone in three days’ – Father cries for justice over mysterious deaths

  29-08-2026 07:32 via vanguardngr.com
  By Peter Duru, MakurdiFor Emmanuel Ochayi, a father of five from Amufu community in Edumoga, Okpokwu Local Government Area, LGA, of Benue state, the past few days have been nothing short of a nightmare.Read Also: 2027 Campaign: What we want to hear from candidates – StakeholdersIn a devastating twist of fate, Ochayi lost four of his children within just three days, leaving him and his wife struggling to come to terms with a tragedy they say they cannot explain.The children, Abah Ochayi, 1
  
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• 2027: No coalition needed to defeat Tinubu, ADC boasts; Obi-Kwankwaso movt rejects merger

  29-08-2026 07:19 via vanguardngr.com
  By Juliet Umeh & Henry UmoruThe African Democratic Congress, ADC, has declared that it does not need a coalition of opposition parties to defeat President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 presidential election, expressing confidence that Nigerians are ready for a change of government.Read Also: 2027 Campaign: What we want to hear from candidates – StakeholdersADC spokesperson, Bolaji Abdullahi, stated this on Arise TV while speaking on the opposition party’s preparedness for the 2027 ele
  
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• Bolt driver stabbed to death in Calabar 

  29-08-2026 07:17 via vanguardngr.com
  By Emma UnaA Bolt driver has been stabbed to death in Calabar in the early hours of Friday after he allegedly resisted an attempt by three unidentified men to dispossess him of his vehicle.Read Also: Who failed travellers on Benin-Asaba road?The incident occurred at about 5:30am along Target Road in Calabar South Local Government Area. The driver was operating a Toyota Corolla with registration number UYY 256H.According to an eyewitness, the driver picked up the three men along Mbukpa Road in C
  
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• Atiku’s Desperation and Tinubu’s Panic, by Emmanuel Aziken

  29-08-2026 07:12 via vanguardngr.com
  When Atiku Abubakar reinvented his stance on fuel subsidy in mid-August, it was no surprise that the Presidency launched an all-out campaign against him.The former vice-president was painted as a desperado who would say anything in what Villa critics called a naked bid for Aso Rock in 2027. Bayo Onanuga, President Bola Tinubu’s information adviser, branded the shift as a “desperation for power,” arguing that Atiku had recanted the very doctrine he sold to voters in 2023.More c
  
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• Akara, Kulikuli and Tiktok Warriors, by Muyiwa Adetiba

  29-08-2026 07:10 via vanguardngr.com
  I recently read an inspiring story in the social media – where else these days. It was about a young man who read Accountancy in the university. And because he was good with figures, he had assumed he would get a good job in a bank after graduation. He was wrong and it took several application letters for him to realise the banks were not exactly queueing up to offer him a job. Rather than moan about the system like many do these days, he took a clerical job in an uncle’s retail sho
  
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• ‘Over 1,500 persons still missing in Yobe’

  29-08-2026 07:09 via vanguardngr.com
  By Maryam Abdul-aziz UsmanThe International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC, has disclosed that it is following up on more than 1,500 cases of missing persons in Yobe State.Read Also: Who failed travellers on Benin-Asaba road?The Head of the ICRC Sub-Delegation in Damaturu, Syed Rashid Hassan, disclosed this on Thursday in Damaturu at an event to commemorate the 2026 International Day of the Disappeared.Hassan said the cases in Yobe formed part of more than 17,000 missing-person cases bei
  
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• Mutfwang: Man of the year, by Emeka Obasi

  29-08-2026 07:08 via vanguardngr.com
  Humanity smells sweeter when one great mind takes an extraordinary step aimed at expanding bridges through destruction of walls. Plateau State governor, Caleb Manasseh Mutfwang did something which many Nigerians continue to avoid.Mutfwang looked up to Heaven and said : ‘I am sorry’. He spoke while receiving the Igbo community in Plateau State. I had condemned the governor in my column sometime in April through the headline, ‘Mutfwang’s Armoured Vehicle’, after he a
  
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• Atiku and the Subsidy Bait, by Ugoji Egbujo

  29-08-2026 07:03 via vanguardngr.com
  Atiku is playing a smart political game. He is tapping ruthlessly into rich veins of discontent across the country. Some say dangling a cocktail of shiny and impracticable promises to lure voters is worse than vote-buying. Others say Tinubu and the APC, who promised “Change” and then presided over corruption and cronyism, should get a taste of their own medicine: crude opportunism.Atiku knows the national mood is raw. Poverty bites hardest in the North. Many people understand that a
  
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• 2027 Campaign: What we want to hear from candidates – Stakeholders

  29-08-2026 06:53 via vanguardngr.com
  •We need answers on economy, security, jobs, power, education, housing, healthcare, othersBy Clifford Ndujihe, Politics EditorAS political parties and candidates hit the streets on campaigns for the 2027 general polls, a host of stakeholders and citizenry have told the contestants what they want to see and hear.Read Also: Broken Systems: How graft sabotages Nigeria’s growth governanceIn interviews with Vanguard, Nigerians told presidential, governorship and legislative
  
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• US secures majority control of Venezuelan oil reserves – Trump

  29-08-2026 06:47 via punchng.com
  
  President Donald Trump said on Friday that his administration has reached a huge oil deal with Venezuela that gives the United States majority control of 65 billion barrels of proven petroleum reserves. The deal — which Trump proclaimed as “the biggest oil deal in world history” — will bring nearly $100 billion in private investmentRead More: https://punchng.com/us-secures-majority-control-of-venezuelan-oil-reserves-trump/
  
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• Broken Systems: How graft sabotages Nigeria’s growth, governance

  29-08-2026 06:39 via vanguardngr.com
  By Ebele OrakpoWithout strong watchdog institutions, impunity becomes the very foundation upon which systems of corruption are built. And if impunity is not demolished, all efforts to bring an end to corruption are in vain.” — Rigoberta Menchú, Nobel Prize laureateRead Also: ‘Do I look 80? Tinubu’s 90’ – Atiku; then Dele Momodu is 80, Omokri reactsAs Nigerians battle insecurity, inflation, and multidimensional poverty, corruption &ndash
  
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• Broken Systems: How graft sabotages Nigeria’s growth governance

  29-08-2026 06:39 via vanguardngr.com
  By Ebele OrakpoWithout strong watchdog institutions, impunity becomes the very foundation upon which systems of corruption are built. And if impunity is not demolished, all efforts to bring an end to corruption are in vain.” — Rigoberta Menchú, Nobel Prize laureateRead Also: ‘Do I look 80? Tinubu’s 90’ – Atiku; then Dele Momodu is 80, Omokri reactsAs Nigerians battle insecurity, inflation, and multidimensional poverty, corruption &ndash
  
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• Who failed travellers on Benin-Asaba road?

  29-08-2026 06:28 via vanguardngr.com
  By Egufe Yafugborhi, BENIN CITY
  For five days, the Benin-Agbor-Asaba Road ceased to be merely a highway. It became a waiting room without walls, a sleeping ground for travellers, workshop for broken vehicles and, for some commuters, a test of endurance.Read Also: ‘Do I look 80? Tinubu’s 90’ – Atiku; then Dele Momodu is 80, Omokri reactsAt one of the worst points along the bypass axis, vehicles stood bumper-to-bumper while passengers waited for hours,
  
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• Vehicle vandals open up: We target Toyota, Sienna, Corolla, Hilux

  29-08-2026 06:22 via vanguardngr.com
  By Evelyn UsmanFor years, Uba Chigozie, 46, and Emeka Emordi, 37, moved through Lagos like ordinary hustlers, finding their way through the sprawling auto-parts market at Ladipo, Mushin, in search of a means of survival.Read Also: Catalytic converters: How mechanics, dealers, panel beaters are ripping off car ownersThey were not from the same part of the state. They did not live together, and they did not appear to share the same background. But they had one thing in common: economic hardship an
  
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• Police probe Calabar Bolt driver’s death

  29-08-2026 03:35 via punchng.com
  
  The Cross River State Police Command has commenced an investigation into the death of a 29-year-old Bolt driver, Emmanuel Effiong Ita, whose body was found in his Honda City vehicle along the Target–Udy King axis of Calabar on Friday. Saturday PUNCH gathered that Ita, a resident of Ikot Effanga Mkpa, Calabar, was discovered dead inRead More: https://punchng.com/police-probe-calabar-bolt-drivers-death/
  
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• Commuters, residents decry poor Enugu-Makurdi road condition

  29-08-2026 03:35 via punchng.com
  
  Commuters and residents plying the 9th Mile–Obollo-Afor–Makurdi Federal Highway and the connecting Obollo-Afor–Eha-Amufu–Nkalagu road have lamented the deplorable condition of the routes, saying the abandonment of construction works has exposed travellers to kidnapping, vehicle breakdowns and severe dust pollution. The affected road users, who spoke with our correspondents on Thursday, said the abrupt departure ofRead More: https://punchng.com/commuters-residents-decry-po
  
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• APC govs’ll secure Tinubu’s re-election, says Uzodinma

  29-08-2026 03:35 via punchng.com
  
  The All Progressives Congress governors have taken responsibility for delivering victory for President Bola Tinubu in their respective states in the 2027 general election. The Imo State Governor and Chairman of the Progressive Governors Forum, Hope Uzodinma, disclosed this on Thursday after a meeting between the President and APC governors shortly after the 160th NationalRead More: https://punchng.com/apc-govsll-secure-tinubus-re-election-says-uzodinma/
  
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• How I taught keyboardist unforgettable lesson for mocking my blindness – Music producer, Ajibola

  29-08-2026 03:27 via punchng.com
  
  Professional keyboardist, Olatunji Ajibola, who became visually impaired at the age of 10, speaks with AYOOLA OLASUPO about how he taught himself to play the keyboard, built a career as a musician, producer and singer, and why he believes disability should never define a person Could you take us through your childhood journey? I’m fromRead More: https://punchng.com/how-i-taught-keyboardist-unforgettable-lesson-for-mocking-my-blindness-music-producer-ajibola/
  
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• Lawyer cries out to IGP, CBN over N750m frozen funds

  29-08-2026 03:20 via vanguardngr.com
  By Omeiza AjayiFor a company that maintains it did nothing wrong, winning in court was supposed to be the end of their ordeal. Instead, the Nigerian company is still waiting for access to N750.37 million of its own money, weeks after a Federal High Court ordered that every restriction on its accounts be lifted.That frustration has now pushed the company’s lawyer and company secretary, Prince Oko Kalu, to take the fight directly to the Inspector General of Police IGP, Tunji Disu, and the C
  
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• Ucheibe joins Oshoala at Al Hilal

  29-08-2026 03:13 via punchng.com
  
  Super Falcons midfielder Christy Ucheibe has left Portuguese champions Benfica to join Saudi Arabian side Al Hilal, where she will team up with fellow Nigeria international Asisat Oshoala ahead of the 2026/27 season, PUNCH Sports Extra reports. The 25-year-old has signed a two-year contract with Al Hilal until the summer of 2028 after her BenficaRead More: https://punchng.com/ucheibe-joins-oshoala-at-al-hilal/
  
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• Taangahar unveils squad for IHF Women’s Nations tourney

  29-08-2026 03:02 via punchng.com
  
  Coach of Nigeria’s Senior Women’s Handball National Team, Michael Taangahar, has unveiled a 16-player squad for the inaugural IHF Women’s Nations Trophy Africa Zone III, scheduled for September 2 to 6, 2026, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. The team has been in camp for several weeks at the Indoor Sports Hall, Package B of the MKORead More: https://punchng.com/taangahar-unveils-squad-for-ihf-womens-nations-tourney/
  
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• Ogun to pay ex-councillors

  29-08-2026 03:02 via punchng.com
  
  The Ogun State Government has assured former councillors who served across the 20 Local Government Areas of the state between 2021 and 2024 of payment of their outstanding severance entitlements. The Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Ganiyu Hamzat, stated this in a telephone interview with our correspondent on Thursday. According to Hamzat, GovernorRead More: https://punchng.com/ogun-to-pay-ex-councillors/
  
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• LASUSTECH lecturers protest salary delay

  29-08-2026 03:02 via punchng.com
  
  Lecturers at the Lagos State University of Science and Technology have demanded an explanation as to why their August salaries are yet to be paid by the management of the institution. A cross-section of the teaching staff who spoke with Saturday PUNCH on condition of anonymity on Friday accused the management of deliberately withholding theirRead More: https://punchng.com/lasustech-lecturers-protest-salary-delay/
  
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• Gambia anti-drug agency nabs Nigerian with 90,020 ecstasy pills

  29-08-2026 03:00 via punchng.com
  
  A 53-year-old Nigerian, Celestine Godwin, has been arrested by the Drug Law Enforcement Agency in the Gambia, with 9,020 ecstasy tablets and suspected equipment for manufacturing illicit drugs According to the agency, Godwin was arrested on August 24, 2026, with the tablets and quantities of suspected cannabis ruderalis, commonly known as skunk. This was containedRead More: https://punchng.com/gambia-anti-drug-agency-nabs-nigerian-with-90020-ecstasy-pills/
  
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