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• Alleged N2.4 bn fraud: FG arraigns ex-aviation minister Stella Oduah

  10-12-2025 11:39 via vanguardngr.com
  The Federal Government on Wednesday arraigned a former Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah, in an Abuja High Court over alleged fraud of N2.4 billion.She is arraigned alongside Gloria Odita on a five-count charge bordering on alleged fraud, obtaining by false pretence, and criminal breach of trust.The prosecution alleged that the defendants conspired in January 2014 to obtain a total of N2,469,030,738.90 from the Federal Ministry of Aviation through Broad Waters Resources Nigeria Ltd and Global
  
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• Petrol supply from Dangote Refinery rises 38% to 23.5m litres daily

  11-12-2025 06:35 via vanguardngr.com
   –Imports hit 52m litres per dayBy Obas Esiedesa, AbujaDomestic supply of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), commonly known as petrol, rose by 37.7 percent in November 2025 to 23.52 million litres per day, up from 17.08 million litres per day in October, according to data from the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA).The volume of petrol imported into the country also surged by 80.27 percent, reaching 52.1 million litres daily compared to 28.9
  
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• ECOWAS moves to cut air travel cost in Nigeria, others

  11-12-2025 06:29 via vanguardngr.com
  By Favour Ulebor, AbujaThe Economic community of West African States has approved major changes aimed at reducing the high cost of flying within Nigeria and the entire West Africa region.In a statement yesterday, the Commission said Heads of State and Government had, at their December 2024 summit in Abuja, adopted a measure that will remove taxes applied to air transport and reduce passenger and security charges by 25 per cent from January 1, 2026.ECOWAS said the move followed years of slo
  
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• Forex: CBN limits cash payout for PTA/BTA at 25%

  11-12-2025 06:23 via vanguardngr.com
  By Babajide KomolafeThe Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has introduced a limit of 25 per cent  on  the amount of cash beneficiaries can receive when accessing their Personal Travel Allowance (PTA) and Business Travel Allowance (BTA) from Bureau De Change (BDCs).The CBN disclosed this in a document titled, Frequently Asked Questions on Current Reforms of the BDC sector.The CBN said: “Travelers are allowed to purchase foreign currency in the form of Personal Travel Allowan
  
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• Stable currency drives stronger Shipping operations in 2025 — SAN

  11-12-2025 06:17 via vanguardngr.com
  By Godwin OritseThe Shipping Association of Nigeria (SAN) has said that improved stability of the naira in 2025 pop pohas significantly energised commercial activities across the country’s maritime and logistics corridors, translating into more predictable operations for the shipping industry and its stakeholders.
  Speaking to Newsmen weekend, Chairman of the association, Boma Alabi, Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, said that there was an improved activities in the sector in 2025 compared
  
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• Ex-AGF, Malami, spends third night in EFCC custody

  11-12-2025 04:19 via vanguardngr.com
  …Describes terrorism claims as political mischiefBy Luminous JannamikeABUJA—Former Attorney General of the Federation, AGF, and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, is set to spend a third night in Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, custody due to his inability to meet the bail conditions set by investigators.Malami, who is being investigated by the EFCC over allegation of terrorism financing and operating 46 bank accounts, has, meanwhile, dismissing them as poli
  
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• Family of 3 die in Otedola Bridge auto crash

  11-12-2025 04:15 via vanguardngr.com
  By Evelyn Usman & Olasunkanmi AkoniThree, yet to be identified members of the same family, father, mother and their young child were recovered dead in the early hours of yesterday, in a multi auto crash, involving four vehicles at Lagos State Secretariat, inward Otedola Bridge, along the Lagos–Ibadan Expressway.Men of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, it was gathered, responded and rescued two persons, though they sustainws various degrees of injuries.The General M
  
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• Ngige in EFCC custody, not kidnapped — Aide clarifies

  11-12-2025 04:03 via vanguardngr.com
  By Luminous JannamikeABUJA – Former Anambra State governor and immediate past Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, is in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), not a kidnap victim, despite a surge of panic and speculation that swept through political circles on Wednesday.His media aide, Fred Chukwuelobe, stepped in swiftly to douse the rumour after receiving a flurry of calls from journalists, associates and well-wishers.The clarification comes
  
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• Ex-Ondo gov candidate, Akingboye’s widow demands autopsy release

  11-12-2025 03:57 via vanguardngr.com
  By Henry OjeluChristy Akingboye, widow of the late Ondo State Social Democratic Party, SDP, governorship candidate, Bamidele Akingboye, has demanded the immediate release of her husband’s autopsy report, condemning what she described as wicked, malicious and pre-emptive claims surrounding the circumstances of his death.Speaking with journalists in Lagos, the grieving widow said it was disturbing that neither she nor any of her children had been granted access to the autopsy findings, even
  
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• CDHR urges govt to deepen protections, uphold dignity of citizens

  11-12-2025 03:55 via vanguardngr.com
  The Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, CDHR, has called on the Federal Government to take concrete steps toward protecting the rights and dignity of Nigerians as the world marks the 2025 International Human Rights Day.In a statement by its President, Debo Adeniran, the group said this year’s theme, “Human Rights: Our Everyday Essentials,” underscores the fact that human rights begin with individuals and are reinforced through daily actions that build a humane and just
  
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• Uproar in Reps over motion to probe CBN’s alleged non-remittance OF N16.3tn

  11-12-2025 03:46 via vanguardngr.com
  By Gift ChapiOdekinaAbuja-A rowdy session broke out on the floor of the House of Representatives on Wednesday as lawmakers debated a motion alleging the non-remittance of more than N5.2 trillion in operating surpluses and N11 trillion in revenue discrepancies linked to the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, between 2016 and 2022.The motion, moved by the Chairman of the Public Account Committee, Bamidele Salam, relied on findings from the Public Accounts Committee, PAC, which is currently investigati
  
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• Nigeria’s swift response foiled Benin Rep coup — Defence Minister

  11-12-2025 03:41 via vanguardngr.com
  By Kingsley OmonobiAbuja-Minister of Defence, General Christopher Gwabin Musa, retd, has said but for Nigeria’s swift intervention, the coup plotters who wanted to overthrow the democratically elected government of President Tallon in the Republic of Benin would have succeeded, thanking President Bola Tinubu for his proactiveness.“Our prompt response made sure that coup failed. We will support our allies when the need arises,” he said.The minister, who spoke at the decoration
  
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• Police orderly withdrawal: Senators kick, Tinubu insists

  11-12-2025 03:16 via vanguardngr.com
  By Henry Umoru & Johnbosco AgbakwuruABUJA —The Senate yesterday raised alarm over what some senators described as selective implementation of President Bola Tinubu’s order on withdrawal of police orderlies from Very Important Persons, VIPs, to complement efforts to tackle the high level insecurity in the country.The senators complained that while their orderlies had been withdrawn, several VIPs still enjoyed the services of police orderlies.Their complaint came on a day Presiden
  
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• Rivers crisis: I’ve suffered too much because I refused to tell my side of the story — Fubara

  11-12-2025 02:48 via vanguardngr.com
  …Explains why he hasn’t met with Amaewhule, othersBy Daniel Abia & Davies IheamnachorPORT HARCOURT— Governor Siminialayi Fubara of Rivers State has said he suffered so much as a governor because he refused to tell his own side of the story in the lingering political crisis in the state.Fubara also explained that he has not been able to meet with the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Martins Amaewhule, and the other lawmakers, after the state of emergency in the stat
  
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• US lawmaker, Moore visits Benue, flays violence driving thousands Into IDP camps

  11-12-2025 01:51 via vanguardngr.com
  UNITED States congressman, Riley Moore, has decried the violence driving people out of their homes into internally displaced persons, IDP, camps.
  Moore, who stated this during his visit to IDP camps in Benue State, said he “met with dozens of Christians who were driven from their homes and subjected to horrific violence and now live in IDP camps.
  In a post on his X handle yesterday, the lawmaker said the IDPs told him “harrowing stories that will remain with me for the rest of my li
  
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• Lagos unveils 2 fresh diaspora insurance plans

  11-12-2025 01:51 via vanguardngr.com
  By Olasunkanmi AkoniLagos State Health Management Agency, LASHMA, has launched two new social interventions, known as Ilera Eko Waka Well, and Home Konnect Health Insurance Plans, basically for diasporans, tourists and other non-immigrant travellers, particularly, during the Yuletide period and beyond.
  The initiatives, according to the state government, is to make healthcare more accessible, inclusive, and affordable for healthier conditions of diasporans, tourists, non-immigrants, and other vi
  
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• Geneith @25: Industry leaders push for local drug manufacturing, warn on medicine security

  11-12-2025 01:49 via vanguardngr.com
  By Chioma ObinnaIndustry leaders at the weekend rallied behind Nigeria’s push for medicine security, using the 25th anniversary of Geneith Pharmaceuticals Limited to renew calls for deeper investment in local drug production.At the anniversary celebration, speakers hailed Geneith’s growth from a small marketing outfit in 2000 into a nationally recognised pharmaceutical player with products spanning antimalarials, antibiotics, metabolic drugs, analgesics, supplements and antifungals.
  
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• Relief for 1,500 Bariga residents as generosity drive mobilises aid

  11-12-2025 01:47 via vanguardngr.com
  By Chioma ObinnaTo mark this year’s Giving Tuesday in Lagos, a coalition of 40 organisations distributed food items, healthcare products and hygiene packs, and free medical checkups to residents of Bariga.
  The humanitarian programme, tagged: “Giving Festival 2025: Where Generosity Takes Centre Stage”, has been described as the biggest gathering for generosity in Nigeria, bringing together non-profit organisations and brands in one location to impact more than 1,500 beneficiari
  
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• Infertility: IVF failure not end of your story — Experts

  11-12-2025 01:47 via vanguardngr.com
  •As fertility advocates, couples open up about loss, power of support at FAAI forumBy Sola OgundipeAt a fertility awareness programme convened by the Fertility Awareness Advocate Initiative (FAAI), with technical support from Nordica Fertility Center, Lagos, fertility advocates and married couples who have experienced both successful and failed IVF cycles laid bare the emotional toll of IVF failure, an issue specialists say is more common, more painful, and more misunderstood than many car
  
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• FG wades in as Burkina Faso refuses to release seized NAF C-130 plane, 11 soldiers

  11-12-2025 01:47 via vanguardngr.com
  Ministry of Foreign Affairs has stepped in to sort out diplomatically issues around the Nigerian Air Force C-130 aircraft seized by the government of Burkina Faso.Recall that the Confederation of Sahel States, AES, had in a statement signed by Assimi Goita, the Mali junta leader, alleged that the NAF plane entered the airspace of Burkina Faso without clearance, though NAF said the aircraft made precautionary landing in Bobo Dioulasso, one of Burkina Faso’s cities, due to technical problem
  
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• Ekiti Airport, new era of aviation devt in Nigeria  — Keyamo

  11-12-2025 01:41 via vanguardngr.com
  By Rotimi OjomoyelaADO-EKITI— THE Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Mr Festus Keyamo, SAN, yesterday, commended the Ekiti Agro-allied International Cargo Airport, describing it as a new era of aviation development in NigeriaSpeaking at the inaugural commercial flight operations at the Airport by the United Nigeria, Keyamo, represented by the Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry, Yakubu Adam, described the inaugural flight as a historic event.While he said it is a new
  
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• Lagos launches diaspora health insurance plans to boost universal coverage

  11-12-2025 01:30 via vanguardngr.com
  By Chioma ObinnaThe Lagos State Health Management Agency, LASHMA, on Tuesday launched two new health insurance packages aimed at Nigerians abroad and visitors to the state, marking a major expansion of its Ilera-Eko diaspora offerings.
  The new packages unveiled during the Agency’s fourth-quarter media parley include; Ilera-Eko Waka-Well and Ilera-Eko Home Konnect.
  According to the agency, they are designed to respond to rising demand from diasporans and the growing need to protect residen
  
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• YEDI takes HIV awareness, testing to Abete community as new infection rise in Lagos

  11-12-2025 01:28 via vanguardngr.com
  By Chioma ObinnaTo mark this year’s World AIDS Day, the Youth Development and Empowerment Initiative, YEDI, weekend led a major community outreach in Abete, Lagos, delivering free HIV testing, counselling, and a wide range of medical services to hundreds of residents in one of the state’s most vulnerable settlements.
  Speaking during the outreach, the Executive Director of YEDI, Mrs. Tomisin Adeoye, said the organisation deliberately chose Abete because of its “high-risk enviro
  
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• Nigeria breaks new ground as Vestergaard, Harvestfield launch 1st mosquito net manufacturing plant

  11-12-2025 01:24 via vanguardngr.com
  By Chioma ObinnaNigeria yesterday recorded a major industrial and public-health milestone as Vestergaard Sàrl and Harvestfield Industries Limited broke ground for the country’s first mosquito net manufacturing plant, a joint venture that will redefine malaria prevention and strengthen national health security.
  The new entity, SNG Health, will produce PermaNet Dual, Vestergaard’s next-generation, dual active-ingredient pyrethroid–chlorfenapyr net designed to counter incr
  
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• From medicines to mentorship: Pharm. Udeh bags YOCEN 2025 Transformative Leadership Award

  11-12-2025 01:24 via vanguardngr.com
  By Chioma ObinnaThe Youth Coalition for Education in Nigeria, YOCEN, has honoured the Principal Manager of Marketing and the Head of Hospital and Institutional Business at Geneith Pharmaceuticals Limited, Pharm. Judith Ngozi Udeh with the 2025 Transformative Leadership Awar: “Amazon of the Societal Development in Nigeria”.
  The award, which recognises her outstanding contributions to nation-building, healthcare education, and youth mentorship was presented at the Landmark Event Centr
  
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• Ambassadorial list: Senior lawyers pick holes, harp on rigorous vetting

  11-12-2025 01:19 via vanguardngr.com
  Nigeria’s diplomatic machinery jolted back to life after nearly three years of vacancy when President Bola Tinubu earlier this week finally released his long-awaited ambassadorial nominee list.
  But instead of easing concerns, the list has triggered a storm of legal and ethical debates, with some of the nation’s most outspoken lawyers dissecting its implications and warning of the long-term damage it could cause if not properly scrutinized and vetted by the Senate.
  The lawyers who sp
  
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• Court stops transfer of 13-hectare Lekki property in N21.5bn sale dispute

  11-12-2025 01:13 via vanguardngr.com
  By Innocent AnabaThe High Court of Lagos State sitting in Igbosere, has issued far-reaching pre-emptive orders restraining Industrial and General Insurance Plc, IGI, and The Four H Nigeria Limited from transferring or tampering with a large expanse of land in the Lekki Peninsula after a property development company, Bravematt Property and Investment Limited, alleged that it had already paid N21.5 billion for the property.Trial judge, Justice R. Olukolu granted the orders, yesterday, following a
  
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• UNN VC under pressure to resign over Uche Nnaji’s certificate

  11-12-2025 01:09 via vanguardngr.com
  By Dennis AgboThe Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria Nsukka, UNN, Prof. Simon Ortuanya has come under fresh pressure to step down from the office over his alleged tempering with the documents of the former Minister of Innovation Science and Technology, Uche Nnaji.Recall that Nnaji had accused Ortuanya of tempering with his university documents while the hit was on Nnaji for alleged falsification of  his UNN  degree certificate, despite an earlier clean bill of health that wa
  
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• Man City edge Real Madrid 2-1 to leave Alonso on brink

  10-12-2025 23:29 via vanguardngr.com
  Manchester City came from behind to beat Real Madrid 2-1 on Wednesday in the Champions League and leave Xabi Alonso’s position as coach of the Spanish giants in grave danger.Without injured superstar Kylian Mbappe, Madrid took the lead through Rodrygo but Nico O’Reilly and an Erling Haaland penalty secured Pep Guardiola’s City the three points.Spanish media reported in the lead-up to the game that a defeat would seal Alonso’s fate as Madrid coach, although his team&rsquo
  
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• Trump says had ‘pretty strong words’ with Europeans on Ukraine

  10-12-2025 23:04 via vanguardngr.com
  US President Donald Trump said he exchanged “pretty strong words” Wednesday with the leaders of France, Britain and Germany on Ukraine, in the latest sign of a growing rift on how to end Russia’s invasion.Trump added that the Europeans wanted to hold fresh talks this weekend but warned that that they risked “wasting time” amid divisions over a US plan to bring the war to an end.“We discussed Ukraine in pretty strong words,” Trump told reporters when ask
  
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