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• Bayern beat defending champions PSG 2-1 in Paris

  04-11-2025 23:16 via vanguardngr.com
  Luis Diaz scored twice and was sent off as Bayern Munich maintained their perfect record this season with a statement 2-1 win away to title-holders Paris Saint-Germain on Tuesday in a glamour Champions League tie marred by a first-half injury to Achraf Hakimi.The Colombian gave Bayern a fourth-minute lead at the Parc des Princes and then pounced on slack defending to score again just after the half-hour mark.However, the former Liverpool winger was then shown a red card in first-half stoppage t
  
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• Nigeria’s oil output drops to 1.486m bpd in November- OPEC

  12-12-2025 07:12 via vanguardngr.com
  By Udeme Akpan, Energy EditorThe Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, has said that   Nigeria’s oil output, excluding Condensate, dropped by 0.7 percent   to 1.486 million barrels per day, bpd in November from 1.496 million bpd produced in October 2025.  The Organisation does not consider Condensate, which Nigeria produces about 196,028 bpd, according to the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission, NUPRC.OPEC disclosed this
  
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• You were “Hero of Political Integrity,” PDP mourns Bayelsa Deputy Governor

  12-12-2025 07:09 via vanguardngr.com
  The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expressed profound grief over the passing of Bayelsa State Deputy Governor, Senator Lawrence Oborawharievwo Ewhrudjakpo, who reportedly collapsed and died earlier today.In a statement signed by the National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Ini Ememobong, MNIPR, the party described Senator Ewhrudjakpo as a “trusted, faithful party man” and a “hero of political integrity.”
  The announcement noted that the news of his death has left the PDP
  
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• CBN to create short code to fast-track complaint resolution

  12-12-2025 07:04 via vanguardngr.com
  The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) yesterday said it is working with the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to create an industry-wide short code that will allow consumers to communicate with their financial institutions anytime, anywhere, with or without internet access.The Director, Consumer Protection and Financial Inclusion Department, CBN, Dr. Aisha Isa-Olatinwo, disclosed this at a virtual Consumer Protection Town Hall meeting titled  “Ask the Regulator”, organi
  
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• Dollar to Naira exchange rate today, December 12, 2025

  12-12-2025 06:58 via vanguardngr.com
  The Nigerian Naira displayed a mixed performance against the US Dollar on Friday, December 12, 2025. While the official window of the Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market (NFEM) maintained a familiar trading band, the parallel market witnessed a marginal appreciation for the Naira, reducing the market’s premium slightly.Trading activities in the official NFEM, which includes the Investors’ and Exporters’ (I&E) Window, indicated a slight movement in the benchmark rate
  
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• Nigeria Killings: US team to brief Trump after fact-finding mission

  12-12-2025 06:47 via vanguardngr.com
  By Favour Ulebor & Agency ReportA United States congressional delegation led by Congressman Riley Moore has completed a fact-finding visit to Nigeria over allegations of widespread killings and is preparing a high-level briefing for former US President Donald Trump before the end of the month.The five-member delegation arrived in Nigeria on Sunday and spent several days in Benue State, meeting internally displaced persons (IDPs), survivors of attacks, Christian leaders, traditional rulers,
  
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• Comply with regulations or face sanctions, NAFDAC warns stakeholders

  12-12-2025 06:29 via vanguardngr.com
  The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has warned stakeholders across various sectors to comply strictly with its regulatory provisions or face legal consequences.The South-East Zonal Director of NAFDAC, Dr. Festus Ukadike, issued the warning at a one-day stakeholders’ sensitisation programme held in Owerri.The sensitisation brought together representatives of the National Association of Patent and Proprietary Medicines (NAPPMED), Association of Table Wa
  
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• NNPCL targets over 2m increase in oil production in 2026

  12-12-2025 06:14 via vanguardngr.com
  …Commends Community Partnership With PINLBy Daniel Abia, Port HarcourtThe Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) has set its crude oil production target for 2026 at more than two million barrels per day.Engr. Akponime Omojevwhe, Head of Field Operations, Eastern Corridor, Project Monitoring Office (PMO) of NNPCL, disclosed this at the monthly stakeholders’ meeting with host communities of the Trans Niger Pipeline (TNP), organised by Pipeline Infrastructure Nigeria Limi
  
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• 22 year old arrested with friends for staging self kidnap, collect N1.5m ransom

  12-12-2025 05:35 via vanguardngr.com
  By Dayo Johnson AkurePolice detectives in Ondo state have arrested a 22 year old truck driver, Tobi Oluwatuyi and two of his friends for allegedly staging his abduction and collected N1.5 m ransom from family members.Vanguard gathered that two friends are Jubril Abu aged 20, and Segun Oluwatuyi ‘aged 21.A police source said that a concerned citizen reported at the Special Anti-Kidnapping Squad that some suspected kidnappers had abducted one Tobi Oluwatuyi ‘m’, aged 22, a truck
  
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• Cross-border co-ordination foiled Benin coup — Ministers

  12-12-2025 05:16 via vanguardngr.com
  By Faith UleborAbuja -Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Yusuf Tuggar, and his Beninese counterpart, Olushegun  Bakari, have revealed how quick coordination between Abuja and Cotonou helped stop the attempted coup in Benin before it could take hold.Meanwhile, Pascal Tigri, the alleged leader of the botched coup in Benin Republic, and his accomplices are said to be hiding in Togo.Beninese soldiers identified Tigri as leader of the mutiny after they thwarted the coup attempt with supp
  
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• Carloha partners FRSC on ember month safety campaign

  12-12-2025 05:14 via vanguardngr.com
  By Theodora OparaCarloha Nigeria has partnered the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, to drive awareness during the 2025 ember-months safety campaign.This year’s campaign theme, “Take Responsibility for Your Driving: Stop Distracted Driving,” emphasises the importance of driver behaviour as the first line of defence against crashes.As part of the collaboration, Carloha Nigeria is supporting the FRSC RS2 Headquarters, Lagos, with donation of reflective jackets for improved office
  
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• PDP admits: Party error, not pressure, cost us Adeleke

  12-12-2025 05:12 via vanguardngr.com
  ABUJA – The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has admitted that internal leadership failures, rather than external political pressure, were responsible for the resignation of Osun State Governor, Mr. Ademola Adeleke,  who moved to Accord Party, for the coming election in the state.Speaking on Channels Television’s The Morning Brief, yesterday, the PDP National Publicity Secretary, Ini Ememobong, said the party failed to address the issues that ultimately drove Adeleke away.“
  
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• Court quashes bid by sacked Osun APC chairmen to access frozen council funds

  12-12-2025 05:05 via vanguardngr.com
  Oyo State High Court, sitting in Ibadan, has dismissed a bid by sacked All Progressives Congress, APC, local government chairmen in Osun State to overturn orders freezing disputed council funds held in accounts with the United Bank for Africa, UBA.Justice Ladiran Akintola, delivering a firm ruling yesterday, struck out the application filed by Attorney-General of Osun State & Anor v. UBA PLC.The former chairmen listed only as “Persons Affected,” had sought leave to challenge an
  
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• Security: Sanwo-Olu reaffirms commitment to strengthening safety of residents

  12-12-2025 05:03 via vanguardngr.com
  By Olasunkanmi AkoniGovernor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has reaffirmed his administration’s commitment to ensuring safer environment, stressing that the strength of society is measured not only by its infrastructure but by the safety and confidence of its people.Meanwhile, the Lagos State Security Trust Fund, LSSF, has received cash donations of N1.848,406,100.00, while a total of N1,77,543,613.81 was spent on various interventions between November 24 to November 2025.Sanwo-Olu and
  
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• Igbo facing existential challenges since civil war — Okorie

  12-12-2025 04:57 via vanguardngr.com
  By Chioma GabrielThe Convener/National Chairman, Igbo Agenda Dialogue,  Chekwas Okorie, on Wednesday, said that Igbo people in the 13 states where they are indigenous, and in the other 23 states and the Federal Capital Territory, have been facing existential challenges and problems since the end of the Nigeria/Biafra war  in 1970.In a statement issued on behalf of the group, he said: “The Igbo have survived, thrived, multiplied, and prospered only by the special grace of God and
  
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• C-River will be major force in Nigeria’s emerging blue economy – Otu

  12-12-2025 03:52 via vanguardngr.com
  ….Flags off World Bank-Backed Maritime ProgrammeBy Emmanuel UnaGovernor Bassey Otu of Cross River State, on Thursday, reaffirmed his administration’s commitment to positioning the state as a major force in Nigeria’s emerging blue economy as he formally launched a World Bank–supported upskilling programme designed to equip citizens with modern, globally relevant competencies for the maritime sector.
  Speaking at the opening ceremony held at the State Library Complex in Ca
  
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• Sam after five, by Azu Ishiekwene

  12-12-2025 02:38 via vanguardngr.com
  If it seems like only yesterday when the founder of LEADERSHIP, Sam Nda-Isaiah, passed away, it’s because he is still here in the present tense. Yet you might disagree if you are looking for him in the wrong place. Let me lessen your confusion.If, for example, you still hope he’d call at 2.30 am to wake you up and ask why you’re asleep at that time, which he did without a hint of irony, and such calls have stopped since, then you may consider him part of the past. Th
  
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• A Privileged Insight, by Donu Kogbara

  12-12-2025 02:37 via vanguardngr.com
  Earlier on this year, I flew to Freetown to interview President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone, his First Lady, and several members of his cabinet.I was touched by the warm welcome I received and highly impressed by the quality of the conversations I had with all of the above; and I remember thinking that it was fitting that they should be so knowledgeable and articulate, given that their country is the home of the oldest Western-style university in sub-Saharan Africa – Fourah
  
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• Benin: Between military claws and bloody talons of President Talon, by Owei Lakemfa

  12-12-2025 02:33 via vanguardngr.com
  Early morning Sunday, December 7, 2025, while many Beninois slept, hoping to go to church, mosque and traditional places of worship at dawn, some members of their armed forces fanned out. Led by Lieutenant Colonel Paschal Tigri, they planned to bring the people under their claws. At 05:00 they attacked the Presidential Palace and then retreated to the national broadcaster, the SRTB where they announced the removal of Patrice Talon, President of the French vassal state. The rebels accusatio
  
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• Rising air fares as threat to national economy, by Adekunle Adekoya

  12-12-2025 02:31 via vanguardngr.com
  TWO major ironies are staring Nigeria in the face at the moment, in so far as it concerns air travel. A few days ago,  the Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace Development rolled out the drums to celebrate 100 years of civil aviation in Nigeria. An international air show was organised and held in Abuja, among other events, to commemorate the milestone. It was on November 1, 1925 that the first flight into Nigeria landed in Kano.It is therefore an irony of developments that citizens
  
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• A century of aviation in Nigeria

  12-12-2025 02:28 via vanguardngr.com
  November 1, 2025 marked the first 100 years of civil aviation in Nigeria, and Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo (SAN), did not take it lightly. The first Nigerian International Air-show, NIA, was organised in Abuja to mark the momentous celebration.It was also an auspicious moment to honour the personalities who played leading roles in defining and shaping the industry, at an event tagged “40 Legends of Aviation”, on December 1, 2025, also in Abuja. These
  
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• Nigerian activist Edoh urges Defence minister Musa to prioritise troops’ welfare

  12-12-2025 01:46 via vanguardngr.com
  By Nnasom DavidNigerian-born international activist, Dr Raymond Edoh, has urged the newly appointed Minister of Defence, Gen. Christopher Gwabin Musa (Rtd), to make the welfare of military officers a top priority as he assumes office.In a statement issued to the press on Tuesday, Dr Edoh described the current welfare condition of many frontline troops as “not fair enough,” insisting that soldiers risking their lives for the nation deserve better treatment.According to him, proper fe
  
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• Producer SpecBeatz adopts New Professional Identity “BeatzbySpec” as His Creative Empire expands

  12-12-2025 01:42 via vanguardngr.com
  Afrobeats producer and songwriter Afolabi Ebenezer Ayomide widely celebrated for his growing influence within Nigeria’s vibrant music scene has officially unveiled a new professional identity. Formerly known as SpecBeatz, the rising sound architect now wishes to be identified as BeatzbySpec, a transition he describes as a necessary step toward aligning with the next phase of his career and long-term creative vision.For the young hitmaker, this rebrand represents far more than a name chang
  
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• Ex- Ondo Speaker, Akindele, hails Aiyedatiwa over rehabilitation of Owena Dam

  12-12-2025 01:35 via vanguardngr.com
  — 1.3 m residents in 7 LGs to benefitBy Dayo Johnson AkureFormer Speaker of the Ondo State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Jumoke Akindele, has hailed the state governor, Dr Lucky Aiyedatiwa for the reactivation of the Owena Multipurpose Dam as well as the Akure Water Supply and Sanitation Project.No fewer than 1.3m residents in seven LGs will benefit from the reactivation of the dam.The council areas include Akure South, Akure North, Idanre, Ifedore, Ile-Oluji/Okeigbo, Ondo East and Ondo Wes
  
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• Defence Minister’s condolence visit to family of fallen Brig-Gen Uba draws nationwide praise

  12-12-2025 01:30 via vanguardngr.com
  By Ibrahim Hassan-WuyoThe Minister of Defence, Gen. Christopher Gwabin Musa (rtd.), has received widespread commendation for his compassionate visit to the family of the late Brigadier-General B. M. Uba, who was killed in the line of duty during a military operation in Wajiroko, Damboa Local Government Area of Borno State.In a statement issued on Wednesday, historian and public affairs analyst Edward John Auta Pama applauded the Minister for personally consoling the grieving family and reaffirm
  
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• ABU unveils blueprint on Agric, human capacity development for Zamfara

  12-12-2025 01:25 via vanguardngr.com
  — Presents Proposal to Gov Dauda LawalBy Ibrahim Hassan-WuyoAhmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, has developed a comprehensive blueprint to tackle agricultural challenges and strengthen human capacity development in Zamfara State.The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Adamu Ahmed, presented the proposal to Governor Dauda Lawal during the commissioning of the newly upgraded departmental library at the Department of Political Science and International Studies.Governor Lawal, an alumnus of the departme
  
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• ABU celebrates TY Danjuma at 87, says his life of service still guides Nigeria

  12-12-2025 01:24 via vanguardngr.com
  By Ibrahim Hassan-WuyoAhmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, has congratulated elder statesman and former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma (rtd), on his 87th birthday, describing his life of service as a guiding light for Nigeria’s progress.In a congratulatory letter personally signed by the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Adamu Ahmed, the university lauded Gen. Danjuma’s remarkable contributions to national unity, human development and nation-building.Prof. Ahmed said
  
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• Katung donates relief materials to terrorism victims, supports rural hospitals in Southern Kaduna

  12-12-2025 01:18 via vanguardngr.com
  By Ibrahim Hassan-WuyoSenator Sunday Marshall Katung, representing Kaduna South Senatorial District, has distributed relief materials to victims of terrorism and extended support to rural hospitals as part of ongoing efforts to boost humanitarian assistance and strengthen primary healthcare across Southern Kaduna.The outreach, coordinated by the Senator’s Chief of Staff, Hon. Aku Joshua Shai, provided essential supplies to vulnerable families in crisis-hit communities. Shai said the initi
  
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• Alleged defamation: Court halts derogatory publications against Ubani

  12-12-2025 01:11 via vanguardngr.com
  By Henry OjeluA High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, has issued an ex parte interim injunction restraining one Lilian Okenwa and Dr. Tonye Clinton Jaja from publishing any further derogatory material against Dr. Monday Ubani, SAN.The order, issued by Justice S.U. Bature of the Maitama Division, stemmed from a defamation suit filed by Ubani, who accused the defendants of circulating damaging content aimed at tarnishing his professional reputation.The suit, marked FCT/HC/CV/44
  
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• Army 8 Division graduates 60 battle-ready soldiers

  12-12-2025 01:09 via vanguardngr.com
  By Musa UbandawakiSOKOTO—The 8 Division and Sector 2 Joint Task Force (JTF) North West, Operation FANSAN YAMMA (OPFY), has strengthened its operational capacity with the graduation of 60 soldiers from its rigorous Fourth Quarter Basic Battle Course.The ceremony marked the completion of an intensive nine-week training programme designed to instil a warrior mindset and improve the combat readiness of participating troops.The General Officer Commanding (GOC), 8 Division, and Commander, Secto
  
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