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• APC does not pressure opposition members to defect – Presidency

  14-12-2025 22:13 via vanguardngr.com
  By Johnbosco AgbakwuruThe Presidency on Sunday night refuted the claims that the All Progressives Congress, APC, arm-twisted and pressurised members of the opposition political parties to defect to the ruling party, saying the decanpees were motivated by the alleged noticeable gains of President Bola Tinubu’s reform programme.The Presidency also denied the allegation that the ruling APC is using the anti-graft agencies like the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to harass and
  
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• Fubara’s defection: What it portends for Rivers

  15-12-2025 08:05 via vanguardngr.com
  By Ibisaki Willie-WillsTuesday, December 9, 2025, will be remembered as a turning point in Rivers State politics. It was the day the state Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara made the most consequential decision of his political journey, dumping the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC).This was not a routine defection. It was a survival move, a power recalibration, and a signal that the political ground in Rivers has fundamentally shifted.More than a mere change of
  
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• Defections: Tinubu will never use EFCC to harass opposition — Presidency

  15-12-2025 08:01 via vanguardngr.com
  The Presidency says President Bola Tinubu will never deploy the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to harass opposition figures.Presidential Spokesperson, Mr Bayo Onanuga, made this known in a statement on Sunday in Abuja.Onanuga insisted that recent defections to the All Progressives Congress (APC) were voluntary.He described claims by some opposition politicians that democracy was under threat as baseless and self-serving.He said politicians joining the APC did so freely, driven
  
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• Pound to Naira exchange rate today, December 15, 2025​

  15-12-2025 06:58 via vanguardngr.com
  The exchange rate between the Nigerian Naira (NGN) and the British Pound Sterling (GBP) displayed a mixed performance on Monday, December 15, 2025, across Nigeria’s official and parallel foreign exchange markets.
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  Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market (NFEM) Data
  ​In the official Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market (NFEM), the Pound Sterling traded at an average rate of ₦1,936.86 per Pound at the close of early trading hours. This rate reflects the prevailing value for investor
  
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• Top auto brands, regulators gear up for 2025 Nigeria Auto Awards

  15-12-2025 06:55 via vanguardngr.com
  By Theodore OparaTHE Nigeria Auto Journalists Association, NAJA, has announced that all is set for the 2025 NAJA Awards, scheduled to hold on Tuesday, December 16 at the Oriental Hotel, Lagos.
  The annual ceremony, revered across the motoring community as the “Oscars” of the Nigerian automotive industry, will unite the country’s most influential brands, regulators, distributors, innovators, and mobility stakeholders for an evening of celebration and industry reflection.
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• PoS Terminals: CBN gives one month deadline for dual connectivity 

  15-12-2025 06:55 via vanguardngr.com
  By Elizabeth Adegbesan The Central Bank of Nigeria,  CBN, has issued a one month deadline to Acquirers, Processors, Payment Terminal Service Aggregators and Payment Terminal Service Providers to establish dual connectivity    Point of Sale  transactions  with  the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS) and Unified Payment Services Limited (UPSL).The directive, according to CBN, was to address concerns associated with routing all Point-of-Sale (POS)
  
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• Fire razess 48 shops in Lagos market

  15-12-2025 06:54 via vanguardngr.com
  No fewer than 48 shops were destroyed in an early morning fire that gutted the Elegushi Model Market complex in the Lekki area of Lagos State on Sunday.The Permanent Secretary, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, disclosed this in a statement, saying the agency received a distress call at about 2 a.m.According to him, upon arrival at the scene, emergency responders found the market complex already engulfed in flames, but swift intervention helped to con
  
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• Nigeria’s trade balance rises 43% to $19.3bn in 9mths

  15-12-2025 06:51 via vanguardngr.com
  By Elizabeth Adegbesan Nigeria’s trade balance rose by 43.8 percent  year-on-year (YoY) to N19.32 billion in the first  nine months of the year  (9M’25) from $13.43 billion in 9m’25. Financial Vanguard analysis of data from the  National Bureau of Statistics,  NBS, report titled, ‘Foreign Trade in Goods Statistics’ showed that the value of exports outweighed imports during the period.The report  showed that exports
  
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• Dollar to Naira exchange rate today, December 15, 2025

  15-12-2025 06:49 via vanguardngr.com
  ​The Nigerian currency, the Naira, showed minimal movement against the US Dollar on Monday, December 15, 2025, maintaining its position across both the official Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market (NFEM) and the parallel market.​Official NFEM Rate Holds Steady
  ​Data from the official trading window, the Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market (NFEM), indicates the Naira traded at \text{₦}1,448.68 per US Dollar early this morning. This rate reflects a marginal depreciation of appro
  
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• Investors gain N1.5trn as stocks sustain upward trend

  15-12-2025 06:46 via vanguardngr.com
  By Peter Egwuatu The Nigerian stock market sustained its upward trend last week with investors gaining over N1.5 trillion. The Nigerian Exchange Limited, NGX closed higher last week, deepening its recovery and reversing the weakness seen in November 2025, as buy interest resurfaced across major blue-chip and mid-tier counters.The bargain hunting in MTN led to a surge in its price by 13.0%. This is followed by Nigerian Breweries, NB, 9.9% , Dangote  Sugar 11.2%, Zenith Bank 2
  
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• Cartoon: Keep your friends close, and …

  15-12-2025 06:35 via vanguardngr.com
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• Ekpo ban: Backlash trails Eno’s executive order as critics push back

  15-12-2025 06:18 via vanguardngr.com
  By Egufe Yafugborhi, UYOGovernor Umo Eno’s ban on the Ekpo masquerade in Akwa Ibom State has continued to generate widespread backlash, with cultural groups, civil society actors and legal practitioners condemning the move, as an assault on tradition and an abuse of executive power.Read Also: Allegations of A Terrorist: Two former governors fueling insecurityThe controversy began on November 30 when the governor announced a ban on public display of Ekpo masquerades, citing security c
  
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• Father, son behind shooting that killed 15 in Australia

  15-12-2025 06:03 via vanguardngr.com
  A father and son opened fire on a Jewish festival at Sydney’s Bondi Beach in a shooting spree that killed 15 people including a child, authorities said Monday as they denounced the attack as antisemitic “terrorism”.The duo fired into crowds packing the beach for the start of Hanukkah on Sunday evening, sending people fleeing in panic across the tourist hotspot.A 10-year-old girl was among the 15 dead in Australia’s worst mass shooting for almost 30 years, while 42 more w
  
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• Troops kill over 14 terrorists, intercept ransom in nationwide operations

  15-12-2025 05:32 via vanguardngr.com
  Troops of the Nigerian Army have recorded major operational gains nationwide, killing over 14 terrorists and intercepting N9 million ransom in the last 48 hours.A credible source at Army Headquarters told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that troops also apprehended several suspects and rescued many kidnapped victims in coordinated operations across multiple theatres.In the North-East, he said the troops of Operation HADIN KAI sustained offensive actions in Borno and Yobe States, killing 11 ISW
  
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• Osun 2026: APC plotting to destabilise our party – Accord Party chair

  15-12-2025 05:04 via vanguardngr.com
  We ‘re focus on winning guber poll – APC
  By Shina Abubakar, OsogboThe leadership of the Accord Party in Osun State has alleged that the All Progressives Congress(APC) is plotting to organise a parallel primary after the emergence of Governor Ademola Adeleke as its candidate for the 2026 Osun State Governorship election.The Nation recalled that a faction of the Accord Party kicked after the emergence of Adeleke as the candidate of the party, stressing that the national leadership led
  
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• Atiku, Obi, Mark, Oyegun to Tinubu: Nigeria must not become one-party state

  15-12-2025 05:00 via vanguardngr.com
  By Luminous JannamikeABUJA – Senior opposition leaders have issued a strong warning to President Bola Tinubu, accusing his administration of presiding over a gradual drift toward a one-party state and using state institutions to intimidate political opponents ahead of the 2027 general election.In a joint statement, the leaders expressed concern that Nigeria’s anti-corruption and security agencies are increasingly being viewed by the public as instruments of selective justice rather
  
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• NGF crowns Yobe best-performing state for primary healthcare in 2025

  15-12-2025 04:58 via vanguardngr.com
  By Sola OgundipeYobe State has emerged as the overall best-performing state in the country for primary healthcare at the 2025 Primary Health Care (PHC) Leadership Challenge Awards put together by the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) and UNICEF, with support from the Gates Foundation.Under the initiative that spotlighted States in the six geopolitical zones of
  
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• Fuel Price: More commercial tomatoes grinders now use electric blenders

  15-12-2025 04:54 via vanguardngr.com
  Despite Dangote’s recent announcement on reduction of fuel price, a litre of fuel is still costly for commercial tomatoes grinders who use much more to carry out their businesses on daily basis.After a day’s job, the artisans complain that everything they make goes to fuel cost.As a result, the adoption of low-cost and low voltage consumption blenders arenow seeing lots of patronage.Some of the artisans who spoke to Economy&Lifestyle noted that the cost of replacing the big grin
  
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• How my pregnant wife, infant baby were set ablaze — husband

  15-12-2025 04:39 via vanguardngr.com
  By Bashir BelloResidents of Sabuwar Gandu in Kano metropolis have been thrown into mourning as yet to be identified assailant killed and set ablaze pregnant woman, Alawiyya Nasiru and her three-year-old infant baby, Ibrahim.The incident it was gathered occurred last Friday evening when the husband, Nasiru Hussaini was out to his workplace only to return to meet the lifeless body of his family members in a locked apartment in their house.The bereaved husband, Hussaini, who confirmed the incident
  
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• Man seeks justice as claims stall reading of late father’s will

  15-12-2025 04:37 via vanguardngr.com
  By Innocent AnabaA Lagos-based man, Mr. Kolawole Adesina, has called for judicial intervention over delays in the reading of his late father’s will, a situation he says has prolonged a family dispute and stalled the proper administration of the estate.Kolawole, son of the late Prince Emmanuel Adesina, a former senior manager with the United Bank for Africa, UBA, narrated that efforts to have his father’s will read at the Lagos State High Court have been repeatedly frustrated by obje
  
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• A-Court acquits businessman jailed 10-yrs for alleged fraud

  15-12-2025 04:35 via vanguardngr.com
  By Henry OjeluLAGOS—The Court of Appeal, Lagos Division, has acquitted businessman, Hilary Ogbobe, and set aside his conviction and sentences for obtaining money by false pretence and stealing, holding that the prosecution failed to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt.In a unanimous judgment delivered on November 27, 2025, by Justice Joseph Ekanem, with Justices Paul Bassi and Polycarp Kwahar concurring, the appellate court allowed Ogbobe’s appeal against the May 2, 2023 judgment
  
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• Eight-month-old baby, woman killed in Lagos road accident

  15-12-2025 04:33 via vanguardngr.com
  By Evelyn UsmanLAGOS—Two persons, including an eight-month-old baby, were killed in a road crash that occurred at the weekend on Ikorodu road, Lagos, at the weekend.Ten other persons were rescued with varying degrees of injuries. t was gathered that tragedy struck when a red long Tata commercial bus moving inward Anthony from Palmgroove suddenly lost control.The bus reportedly veered off its lane, broke through the median barrier and crashed head-on into a Volkswagen commercial bus convey
  
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• NDLEA bursts bandit’s drug supply chain, nabs fleeing supplier

  15-12-2025 04:31 via vanguardngr.com
  By Kingsley OmonobiThe National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has recorded major breakthroughs in its nationwide offensive against illicit drug trafficking, arresting a notorious supplier of drugs to bandits operating in parts of Niger and Zamfara states, while intercepting large consignments of opioids and cannabis across the country.The agency, in a statement yesterday by its spokesman, Mr. Femi Babafemi, said the suspect, 33-year-old Mohammed Sani, popularly known as Gamboli, was arres
  
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• 2027: November not ideal for general election, BOOT party warns

  15-12-2025 04:06 via vanguardngr.com
  …. Says no need to legalize BVASBy Gabriel EwepuABUJA—ON the heels of the proposed electoral reforms, the Because Of Our Tomorrow, BOOT, Party, yesterday, warned that shifting 2027 general elections to November would not be ideal as it will terribly impact the electoral process and defeat the purpose.The warning was contained in a statement signed by the National Chairman, BOOT party, Sonny Adenuga, where the party also raised other concerns on key issues proposed for reforms ahead
  
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• Edo govt, Obaseki renew hostilities over hotel project

  15-12-2025 04:03 via vanguardngr.com
  Edo State government and former Governor Godwin Obaseki, yesterday, renewed hostilities over the funding and the state’s stake in the Radisson Hotel in Benin, the state capital.Last week, the State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Kassim Afegbua, faulted Obaseki’s claim that the state committed N2 billion to acquire the property, which was later developed into the hotel.Afegbua revealed that the state owed N25 billion sourced from the stock market, noting that the loan was
  
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• WAEC/NECO fees: Benue orders refund of N106,000 charged by school

  15-12-2025 03:56 via vanguardngr.com
  ….Warns against exploitationBy Peter DuruThe Benue State Government, through the Education Quality Assurance and Examinations Board, BEQAE, has directed Jewel Model School, Makurdi, to immediately reverse the N106,000 being charged to parents for the registration of West African Examination Council, WAEC, and National Examinations Council, NECO, describing the levy as excessive and unjustifiable.The directive followed a series of petitions from aggrieved parents who accused the school of
  
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• Lagosians to enjoy first 30 Feet Xmas tree made of local fabric

  15-12-2025 03:55 via vanguardngr.com
  By Prince Osuagwu, HiTech EditorTechnology, culture and entertainment will fuse together to produce a colourful 30-foot Chrismas tree at the heart of Lagos metropolis on Christmas eve.This promises to be one of it’s kind since Lagos started leading other states in beautifying choice spots in the state with ornamental lightings and trees during the yuletide.This time around, a culture influencer and curator of Shakara Trybe Fashion enterprise, Miss Ebunoluwa Dosumu, is adding a touch of cu
  
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• Dangote alleges sleaze at NMDPRA, demands investigation

  15-12-2025 03:52 via vanguardngr.com
  …Projects N740 petrol price before ChristmasBy Udeme AkpanPresident and Chief Executive of Dangote Industries Limited, Aliko Dangote, has called for the investigation and prosecution of the Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA), Engr. Farouk Ahmed accused him of economic sabotage, claiming it undermines domestic refining in Nigeria.Speaking at a press conference at the Dangote Petroleum Refinery yesterday, Dangote accused
  
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• Allegations of A Terrorist: Two former governors fueling insecurity

  15-12-2025 03:40 via vanguardngr.com
  By Musa UbandawakiSOKOTO — Notorious bandit leader, Bello Turji, has accused two former northern governors of fueling insecurity in the country, especially in the North.He also confirmed participating in a series of peace meetings with the Zamfara State government during the administration of a former governor of the state, but vehemently denied claims that he received N30 million or any material inducement to participate in the process.Efforts made to get the reaction of both former gove
  
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• Seized C-130 aircraft: 11 soldiers yet to be released in Burkina Faso — FG

  15-12-2025 01:58 via vanguardngr.com
  …Says we’re on top of situationBy Kingsley Omonobi & Favour UleborThe Federal Government said yesterday discussions were still ongoing over the detention of a Nigerian Air Force C-130 aircraft and 11 soldiers, noting they were yet to be released by the Burkinabe government.Recall that the aircraft, crew and soldiers onboard the plane were  seized on Monday, shortly after the crew made what it described as precautionary landing in Bobo Diulasso, Burkina Faso.The Nigeria Air
  
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