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• Dunamis terminal distances self from Ago Palace gridlock

  18-06-2026 08:22 via vanguardngr.com
  By Efe OnodjaeOfficials of Dunamis Inland Terminal have distanced the facility from the recurring gridlock along Ago Palace Way, insisting that the congestion is largely caused by the poor condition of the road and seasonal rainfall rather than truck operations linked to the terminal.The clarification comes on the heels of a recent Vanguard report highlighting the return of severe traffic congestion along the Ago Palace corridor, where residents, motorists and business owners lamented spending
  
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• 2 countries eliminated from 2026 FIFA World Cup

  20-06-2026 09:17 via vanguardngr.com
  Haiti and Turkey have become the first two nations to be eliminated from the ongoing FIFA World Cup after suffering consecutive defeats in their respective group-stage matches.Haiti’s exit was confirmed on Friday following a comprehensive 3-0 loss to Brazil at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia.The Caribbean side entered the match needing a positive result to keep their hopes of reaching the Round of 32 alive, but goals from Manchester United striker Matheus Cunha, who scored twice,
  
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• 10-man Paraguay edge Turkey, keep World Cup hopes alive

  20-06-2026 09:13 via vanguardngr.com
  Ten-man Paraguay beat Turkey 1-0 at the World Cup on Friday, a result that kept their hopes alive and also guaranteed that co-hosts the USA win Group D.Turkey’s defeat means they become the second team after Haiti to be eliminated from contention.Matias Galarza scored the only goal in a game that featured the first sending off in World Cup history for a player covering their mouth during an on-field confrontation, for Miguel Almiron.Galarza’s low, long-range shot evaded Turkey goalk
  
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• Brazil bounce back with dominant win, leave Haiti bottom of Group C

  20-06-2026 09:11 via vanguardngr.com
  Brazil took control of their destiny with a 3-0 win over Haiti that ended the Caribbean nation’s chances of reaching the World Cup last 32.Two goals from Manchester United striker Matheus Cunha and a Vinicius Junior strike sealed a comfortable win for the Brazilians in a one-sided game at Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field.The result ensured Haiti will finish bottom of Group C and are the first team to be eliminated from contention for a place in the knockout rounds.Brazil&rsquo
  
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• Bandits may be getting support from those in authority – Ex-NYSC DG

  20-06-2026 09:09 via vanguardngr.com
  By Ibrahim Hassan-WuyoFormer Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier-General Maharazu Tsiga (retd.), has alleged that bandits terrorising communities across Northern Nigeria may be receiving support from certain persons in positions of authority.Tsiga made the assertion in Kaduna while speaking with journalists during a press conference organised by colleagues, friends and associates of the late Major-General Rabe Abubakar (retd.), who died in bandits’ capti
  
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• Photos: INEC staff, electorate ready for Ekiti election

  20-06-2026 09:05 via vanguardngr.com
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• Oyo school abduction: Security forces corner kidnappers’ cell at national park

  20-06-2026 08:59 via vanguardngr.com
  By Adeola BadruSecurity forces have intensified efforts to rescue dozens of pupils and teachers abducted from schools in Oyo State after intelligence reports identified key Boko Haram commanders allegedly linked to the kidnapping and revealed that the terrorists are now largely confined within the Oyo National Park.The development came 36 days after gunmen stormed three schools in Oriire Local Government Area on May 15 and whisked away 42 pupils and education workers, including a school princip
  
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• Boko Haram suffocates 12-hour-old baby in Chibok

  20-06-2026 08:43 via vanguardngr.com
  By Ndahi MaramaWhat should have been a moment of joy for a family in Chibok Local Government Area of Borno State turned into tragedy when a 12-hour-old baby girl reportedly suffocated during a Boko Haram attack on her community.The infant, born barely 12 hours before the attack, died amid panic and confusion as residents fled for safety when suspected Boko Haram insurgents invaded Bambatsu and Ngadarma villages in Mbalala War
  
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• Plateau: Sleep no longer peaceful, fear now our life

  20-06-2026 08:32 via vanguardngr.com
  •Mining site killings, traditional ruler’s death, nipss attack, border violence signal deepening security crisisBy Golok NanmwaJos — Plateau State has once again been pushed into a troubling cycle of coordinated violence, as gunmen carried out a series of deadly attacks across multiple locations within days, leaving miners, a traditional ruler, and security operatives dead, and raising fresh concerns over the worsening security situation in the state. From Jos So
  
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• Live Elections Updates: Ekiti, Enugu, Rivers, Ondo, Nasarawa, Kano, Kebbi

  20-06-2026 08:30 via vanguardngr.com
  Early voters Ado-Ekiti ad hoc staffAbove and below: Ado-Ekiti, Ward 11, Unit 9, voters INEC ad hoc staff are already on ground.PHOTOS: Dayo Johnson.=============================================It’s D-Day today for voters and politicians across seven states.
  With 1,059,360 registered voters in Ekiti State, 10 opposition political  parties are in the race to stop Governor Abiodun Oyebanji of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in today’s governorship electio
  
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• Cross River mystery killer: I waited 27 years to revenge

  20-06-2026 08:28 via vanguardngr.com
  •Victim’s mattress gave suspect away – VillagerBy Evelyn UsmanFor decades, Abanyama  community in Creek Town, Odukpani Local Government Area of Cross River State, was known as a peaceful riverine settlement where neighbours lived like one family. But that calm was shattered recently after the brutal murders of two prominent elders triggered panic, forcing many residents to abandon their homes and farms for fear of becoming the next victims.The nightmare reportedly beg
  
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• My child was wrapped on my back but she was swept away, her body hasn’t been seen — mother

  20-06-2026 08:19 via vanguardngr.com
  *I managed to swim out with my baby but she   was dead when I made it out – another motherBy Peter Duru, MakurdiThe people of Daudu community in Mbalagh Council Ward of Makurdi Local Government Area had set out last Saturday on a solemn mission, to bid farewell to one of their own.They travelled across the River Benue to Wadata, a bustling suburb of Makurdi, to attend the burial of a female member of their community. It was a journey they had made countless t
  
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• Is the Nigerian Army above the law? – Okuama elders still in detention 

  20-06-2026 08:00 via vanguardngr.com
  By Akpokona OmafuaireMore than two decades after Nigeria’s return to democratic governance, a fundamental question continues to confront the nation’s institutions: Who has the final authority in a constitutional democracy— the courts or state agencies?Read Also: Okuama-Ewu: Community declares 17 soldiers killed along Forcados RiverThat question has resurfaced with renewed urgency following the continued detention of the Okuama elders despite a court order directing their
  
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• Bloodbath in Warri as cult clashes claim lives 

  20-06-2026 07:14 via vanguardngr.com
  By Jimitota Onoyume, Assistant News EditorThe cult war in Warri , Delta state has continued unabated as two young men were shot dead last night around the 1st Marine Gate area by suspected cultists.Also on Tuesday another two young men were killed around the Cemetery road area of the oil rich city.The sad incidents have again heightened tension with many residents appealing for an end to the reprisal actions of the cult groups locked in the clash.Saturday Vanguard gathered that one of
  
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• Kwara ends era of missing files, endless delays, middlemen in land administration

  20-06-2026 06:58 via vanguardngr.com
  Stories by Demola Akinyemi, IlorinFor 59 years since Kwara state was created by the Federal Military Government led by General Yakubu Gowon, land administration in the state had been associated with delays, uncertainty, missing files, middlemen interference and cumbersome documentation processes.
  Citizens seeking land titles or Certificates of Occupancy frequently encountered frustrating experiences that undermined confidence in government systems.
  But the current administration under the leade
  
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• UK ruined my reputation, integrity,  says Diezani Alison-Madueke

  20-06-2026 06:33 via vanguardngr.com
  … Describes 13-yr NCA probe as painful, traumatic By Nkiruka Nnorom Former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, said the UK authorities destroyed her reputation in a failed prosecution that left her traumatic, after she was cleared of bribery charges at Southwark Crown Court on Wednesday.Speaking in an interview with the BBC, the 65 year old said the 13 year investigation by the UK’s National Crime Agency, NCA, “could have been handled a lot
  
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• Nigerians to FG: Terrorists can’t truly repent

  20-06-2026 06:27 via vanguardngr.com
  •Stop wasting money rehabilitating them•Help victims who sufferedBy Dayo Johnson, Regional Editor, South West; Olasunkanmi Akoni; Samuel Oyadongha; Rotimi Ojomoyela; Egufe Yafugborhi, Ozioruva Aliu; James Ogunnnaike; Adeola Badru; Steve Oko; Ndahi Marama; Ochuko Akuopha; Emem Idio & Uko EtimThe late President Muhammadu Buhari in 2016 launched the controversial Operation Safe Corridor to facilitate the rehabilitation of ex-insurgents saying that the reintegration of deradicalised c
  
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• Gunshots as Abia youths show the way, attack terrorists, rescue kidnap victims

  20-06-2026 06:12 via vanguardngr.com
  •They beat me, threatened to kill me for speaking Igbo on phone—kidnapped widow•I fought back determined not to die alone—Tricycle operatorBy Steve OkoUMUAHIA — In a rare display of bravery never witnessed before since terrorists have been attacking communities, abducting residents across the country, youths of Ohuhu community in Abia state mobilised and stormed the forest in pursuit of Fulani terrorists who had kidnapped two members of the community. After
  
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• Ekiti D-DAY: 10 parties go for Oyebanji’s  office

  20-06-2026 06:00 via vanguardngr.com
  TEN opposition political  parties are in the race to stop the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in today’s governorship election in Ekiti State,
  Four senatorial bye-polls in Enugu, Rivers, Ondo and Nasarawa; one House of Representatives and one State Assembly bye-elections in Kano and Kebbi states.Over 1m voters to decide Oyebanji, 10 others’ fate todayEKITI State Governor Biodun Oyebanji faces challengers from 10 political parties in today’s governorship e
  
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• Democracy’s weakest moment is when it stops, by Stephanie Shaakaa

  20-06-2026 05:22 via vanguardngr.com
  What happens when democracy begins to distrust the people in whose name it exists?
  Every democracy begins with an act of faith.Not faith in kings, experts, judges, generals, or bureaucrats, but faith in ordinary citizens. The entire democratic project rests upon a remarkably audacious belief: that millions of imperfect people, acting independently and often disagreeing with one another, possess a greater claim to political judgment than any institution that might seek to govern them.W
  
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• National Assembly’s dirty papers, by Emmanuel Aziken

  20-06-2026 04:44 via vanguardngr.com
  For an institution that makes laws for more than 200 million Nigerians, this is dangerous. A legislature that cannot convincingly account for its own documents cannot credibly demand accountability from ministries, departments, agencies or ordinary citizens.The latest controversy came from the Senate over the report that led to the suspension of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan. Senator Adams Oshiomhole alleged that some senators whose names appeared on the report denied signing it. Ac
  
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• How much time do we really have left? It’s a question that hangs in the air, by Muyiwa Adetiba

  20-06-2026 04:43 via vanguardngr.com
  There was this story of a political activist who was considered an enemy of State and sentenced to death. His last act when given the chance, was to hug his mother. This got people curious. Why not his wife, a child, or any of his comrades-in- arms? The message here however, is not that he chose his mother, but that nobody else can really know what our last wish is until we act on it.
  No one can adequately second guess our last testament if not told, or to avoid ambiguity, if not writ
  
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• Ogunsanya’s Powerful Judgement, by Emeka Obasi

  20-06-2026 04:41 via vanguardngr.com
  You cannot be more Nigerian than someone from the South – West who found love across the Niger, served in Benin Kingdom and remains attached to Lagos, where nothing escapes scrutiny. Akin Victor Ogunsanya represents courage, determination and fair play.Chatting with him is a journey into almost everything. From politics to nationalism, you  will delve into football and remain there talking about the 1983 Flying Eagles, Stationery Stores the World Cup and more. His best was
  
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• Please Tinubu, why can’t we all own Rifles? By Ugoji Egbujo

  20-06-2026 04:39 via vanguardngr.com
  •A three-pronged strategy for your consideration!Poor Nigerians. These days, ordinary people are one wrong journey away from a brutal death. General Rabe is now dead. Who knows what his family went through to recover his remains? May his soul rest in peace.The lessons from Rabe’s killing are for the living. When he served as military spokesman, he did his best to minimise the security crisis and lionise the military. His job was to portray the military and government in the
  
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• Governor AbdulRazaq launches environmental sustainability club in schools

  20-06-2026 03:01 via vanguardngr.com
  Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Wednesday implored school children across the state to embrace agriculture and see it as a catalyst of promoting food.He also encouraged them and the entire residents to cultivate the habit of planting trees, protecting green spaces, and avoiding indiscriminate waste disposal in the schools and across communities.The Governor was speaking in Ilorin at the flagoff of the Inter-Local Government Quiz Competition on Agricultural Education Training Prog
  
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• Sowore Arrest Order: We won’t be silenced, AAC declares

  20-06-2026 02:38 via vanguardngr.com
  …Vows: No arrest order can extinguish people’s quest for freedomBy Luminous JannamikeABUJA — The African Action Congress, AAC, has declared that an arrest order issued against its presidential candidate, Comrade Omoyele Sowore, would not deter the party from participating in the 2027 elections, as it warned against what it described as growing pressure on opposition voices and democratic freedoms in Nigeria.The party said the development was not just about Sowore but about th
  
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• Shagari endorses Aliyu’s development footprints, lauds impact across key sectors

  20-06-2026 02:20 via vanguardngr.com
  By Musa Ubandawaki, SokotoSOKOTO:Former Deputy Governor of Sokoto State and former Minister of Water Resources, Mukhtar Shehu Shagari, has commended Governor Ahmed Aliyu for what he described as a remarkable record of achievements in infrastructure development, social welfare, security, healthcare delivery and agricultural transformation across the state.Shagari gave the commendation while participating in a series of project commissioning and groundbreaking ceremonies led by Governor Ahmed Ali
  
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• SAHCO seeks deeper trade, cargo ties with UAE

  20-06-2026 02:11 via vanguardngr.com
  By Dickson OmobolaSkyway Aviation Handling Company Plc, SAHCO, has said it is willing to strengthen trade facilitation between Nigeria and the United Arab Emirates, UAE, while also exploring partnerships with Middle East Airlines.SAHCO Chairman, Dr Taiwo Afolabi, said the initiative was aimed at boosting passengers, cargo and e-commerce activities between the two countries.Afolabi, represented by the Managing Director/CEO of SAHCO, Mrs Adenike Aboderin, said there was a need to strengthen bilat
  
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• Delta ADC 2027: Ogboru’s silence not a show of weakness, surrender — Akpewe

  20-06-2026 02:08 via vanguardngr.com
  Ahead of the 2027 general elections, the Delta State Publicity Secretary of the African Democratic Congress, Mr. Fred Akpewe, has said the silence of the party’s governorship candidate, Chief Great Ogboru over the alleged claim by Dr. Emmanuel Unuafe as the governorship candidate of the Delta ADC is not a sign of weakness or surrender.
  A statement by party’s publicity secretary said the attention of the leadership of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Delta State Chapter, has be
  
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• Insecurity: Oba of Benin summons native doctors, priests, others

  19-06-2026 23:39 via vanguardngr.com
  The Oba of Benin, Omo N’Oba N’Edo, Uku Akpolokpolo, Ewuare II, has summoned native doctors, traditional priests, and priestesses to an urgent meeting over the worsening security crisis in Edo and Nigeria.This is contained in a statement signed by Chief Victor Nosakhare on behalf of Benin Traditional Council Secretary Frank Irabor on Friday.The statement noted that the meeting would be held at 12 p.m. sharp on Tuesday, June 23, 2026, at the Oba’s Palace.The palace said the meet
  
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