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• Kano APC receives new defectors

  06-09-2026 01:00 via punchng.com
  
  Kano APC welcomes over 136,000 new members, including prominent politicians, strengthening the party ahead of the 2027 general elections. Read more on KanoRead More: https://punchng.com/kano-apc-receives-new-defectors/
  
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• Indonesia market fire kills 11, including six children

  07-09-2026 08:43 via vanguardngr.com
  
  JAKARTA — At least 11 people, including six children, have died after a fire tore through a market and nearby buildings in Indonesia’s eastern Papua region, police said on Monday.The fire broke out shortly after midnight in Paniai, Central Papua province, and quickly spread to several shophouses, according to local police spokesman Henry Manurung.“During the inspection, officers found 11 victims who had died with burn injuries. Of the 11 victims, five of them were adults, whil
  
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• It’s our turn to produce next Awujale — Fusengbuwa Ruling House

  07-09-2026 08:42 via vanguardngr.com
  
  ABEOKUTA —THE Fusengbuwa ruling house of Ijebu-Ode in Ogun State, yesterday, reaffirmed the unity of the family and its determination to produce the next Awujale and paramount ruler of Ijebuland.
  The ruling house also warned against alleged attempts to frustrate it from exercising what it described as its lawful turn in the succession to the vacant throne.
  The leaders spoke after an enlarged meeting of princes and princesses of the ruling house held at Ile Nla (Agunsebi), Ijebu-Ode.
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• Sokoto: Terrorists flee as troops overrun forest hideouts, seize weapons

  07-09-2026 08:40 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Musa UbandawakiSOKOTO—TERRORISTS operating in parts of Sokoto State have suffered another major setback as troops of the Nigerian Army’s COAS Special Intervention Battalion 7, Sector 2, Operation FANSAN YAMMA, dislodged their positions and recovered high-calibre weapons, ammunition and motorcycles during a clearance operation in Tangaza Local Government Area.
  The operation was part of the ongoing offensive campaign aimed at dismantling terrorist enclaves, restricting the movement
  
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• Kebbe attack: Sokoto govt declares total war on terrorists

  07-09-2026 08:37 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Musa UbandawakiSOKOTO—THE Sokoto State Government has declared total war on terrorists and other criminal elements responsible for the escalating insecurity in vulnerable communities, following the recent deadly attack in Kebbe Local Government Area.
  The government also offered N9 million in financial assistance to families of the deceased and injured victims of the attack as part of immediate measures to cushion the impact of the tragedy.
  Acting on the directive of Governor Ahmad Aliy
  
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• FCCPC probes Uber over abrupt Nigeria exit

  07-09-2026 08:19 via vanguardngr.com
  
  ABUJA — The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) has commenced a probe into Uber’s abrupt withdrawal from the Nigerian market, with particular focus on how the ride-hailing company handled unfulfilled services to customers.The FCCPC Chief Executive Officer, Tunji Bello, disclosed this in an interview with Bloomberg on Sunday.Bello said the commission was examining the circumstances surrounding Uber’s exit, particularly its obligations to consumers fol
  
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• Solomon Islands PM survives ouster bid, parliament adjourned

  07-09-2026 08:05 via vanguardngr.com
  
  HONIARA — Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale has survived an attempt to oust his government, with parliament subsequently adjourned indefinitely to prevent another immediate challenge.The no-confidence motion was withdrawn on Sunday by its sponsor, Manasseh Maelanga, after several lawmakers crossed over to Wale’s coalition.Parliament was adjourned indefinitely on Monday, with Wale saying the break would provide time for his government to pursue major policy changes, includi
  
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• Trump suggests renaming New Mexico ‘New America’

  07-09-2026 08:02 via vanguardngr.com
  
  WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump has suggested renaming the state of New Mexico “New America”, prompting an immediate rejection from the state’s governor.Trump made the proposal on Sunday in a social media post, saying he had received suggestions that the state should be given a new name.“Many people suggested changing the name of New Mexico… to NEW AMERICA,” the Republican president wrote. “So much more prestigious and beautiful for the pe
  
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• Bauchi Senator Buba denies sponsoring banditry, says allegations fabricated

  07-09-2026 07:57 via vanguardngr.com
  
  ABUJA — Senator Shehu Buba, representing Bauchi South Senatorial District, has denied allegations linking him to bandit kingpins and sponsoring banditry in northern Nigeria, describing the claims as fabricated and politically motivated.Buba, who is the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) governorship candidate in Bauchi State, said the allegations circulating online claimed that some high-profile bandit leaders had visited his residence and that he sponsored some of them to undertake the hajj
  
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• Dollar to Naira exchange rate today, September 7, 2026

  07-09-2026 07:47 via vanguardngr.com
  
  The dollar-to-naira exchange rate opened the new week with the naira trading at about ₦1,321.68 per US dollar at the official rate, while the parallel market rate stood at ₦1,390 per dollar for buying and ₦1,400 for selling, according to available market data.The latest available NFEM figure for September 7 puts the official exchange rate at ₦1,321.68 to the dollar. However, the Central Bank of Nigeria’s published NFEM table shows September 4 as the latest dated tr
  
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• 2027: Don’t include me among candidates who can’t fix Nigeria  —  Adebayo replies Baba-Ahmed

  07-09-2026 07:40 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Bayo WahabThe presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Adewole Adebayo, has rejected Datti Baba-Ahmed’s assessment that none of the leading candidates for the 2027 presidential election has the capacity to turn Nigeria around.Adebayo said Baba-Ahmed’s conclusion could only be based on his personal experiences with politicians he had worked with and should not be extended to candidates with whom he had no direct dealings.He stated this during an interview on Ar
  
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• 2027: INEC threatens ₦10m fine, 12-month jail term for abusive campaign

  07-09-2026 06:40 via vanguardngr.com
  
  .Urges Media to call out erring politiciansBy Omeiza AjayiABUJA: Ahead of the 2027 general election, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has warned that politicians and political parties who employ abusive, intemperate or inflammatory languages in their campaigns risk heavy financial penalties and possible imprisonment under the Electoral Act 2026, as the country grapples with a fresh wave of threats by political office holders against dissenting voters.Chief Press Secretary/Med
  
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• Nigerians better off under military rule – Donald Duke

  07-09-2026 06:02 via vanguardngr.com
  
  Nigerians better off under military rule – Donald DukeFormer Cross River State governor and presidential candidate of Peoples Redemption Party, Donald Duke, has declared that Nigerians were better off under military rule.
  He argued that 27 years of civilian government had imposed enormous costs without delivering corresponding improvements in the lives of the people.
  “The people were better off under the military. At least governance was not that expensive,” Duke said in an in
  
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• Adeyanju hails EFCC’s achievements, urges probe of increased state revenues

  07-09-2026 05:34 via vanguardngr.com
  
  Human rights lawyer, Deji Adeyanju, has commended the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for its achievements under the leadership of its Chairman, Ola Olukoyede, urging the agency to pay closer attention to the use of increased revenues accruing to state governments.Adeyanju said the fight against corruption must extend beyond recovering stolen funds to preventing the diversion of future public resources, particularly following the removal of the petrol subsidy and the resulting i
  
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• How we were tear-gassed, Lagos Pensioners

  07-09-2026 04:59 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Victor Ahiuma-YoungLagos State pensioners under the umbrella of the Nigeria Union of Pensioners, NUP, have narrated how their peaceful protest at the Lagos State Secretariat on August 31, 2026, was allegedly disrupted when a police officer tear-gassed them.The pensioners had embarked on the protest following what they described as the Lagos State Government’s failure to respond to a 19-day ultimatum issued by the union on August 1 over their demands. According to the pensioners, the ul
  
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• NOUN bursar shot dead in Zamfara

  07-09-2026 04:39 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Joseph Erunke, AbujaThe National Open University of Nigeria, NOUN, has announced the death of its Bursar, Mallam Nasiru Marafa, who was reportedly shot dead while returning from Gusau, Zamfara State.The university announced Marafa’s death in a statement on Sunday, describing it as a “sudden and untimely” loss of a senior administrator who had served the institution in various capacities.However, the university did not disclose the exact location of the attack or details sur
  
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• Retirement an exit into hell, Labour blasts pension delays

  07-09-2026 03:52 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Victor Ahiuma-YoungThe President of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria ASCSN, Shehu Mohammed, has described retirement under the current pension arrangement as “an exit into hell,” blaming persistent delays, long queues and the failure of the contributory pension scheme to deliver on its promise.Speaking on the plight of Lagos pensioners, Mohammed said the scheme, introduced to ease access to terminal benefits, has instead left many retirees and their families str
  
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• Oye to Tinubu: Economic growth must tackle hunger, joblessness

  07-09-2026 03:51 via vanguardngr.com
  
  THE Chairman of the Alliance for Economic Research and Ethics LTD/GTE, Dele Oye, has said reforms by the Bola Tinubu-led administration over the past three years have improved the country’s macroeconomic stability and resilience.He, however, urged the government to take further steps to turn these recent macroeconomic gains into lower food prices, productive jobs and improved living standards for Nigerians.Oye in a statement, titled “The Economy Is Stabilising. Now Let the People Fe
  
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• Businesses suffer as FG’s domestic borrowings surge 90% to N24.7trn

  07-09-2026 03:47 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Babajide KomolafeThe federal government increased its borrowing from domestic investors by 90.5 per cent, year-on-year (YoY), to N24.7 trillion in the eight months to August 2026, against N12.98 trillion in the corresponding period of 2025 (8M’25).
  Financial Vanguard findings from the government’s various public finance data also showed that credit to government grew more than four times faster than credit to the private sector during the same period. The data are generated from
  
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• Nigeria in a new Middle East, by Suleiman A. Suleiman

  07-09-2026 02:41 via vanguardngr.com
  
  It was bemusing to read in the news that Nigeria has joined the Red Sea Alliance, an ostensibly “maritime security” coalition cobbled together by Saudi Arabia, along with 12 other predominantly Muslim countries in tow. The announcement exposes our current approach to foreign policy: episodic, sentimental, and reactive rather than deliberate and strategic. It has the fifth-largest Muslim population in the world. It is Africa’s largest country by population and ranks in the top
  
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• The Ogbeni years: Reporting a politician to history, by Owei Lakemfa

  07-09-2026 02:39 via vanguardngr.com
  
  There are not a few who see Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola, former Minister of Interior and onetime Osun State Governor, as an enigma. A politician that would not shy away from a fight he considers necessary, even if it appears unwinnable. A man who would yield no ground unless confronted with a superior argument. A puzzle that needs to be unknotted.On September 3, 2026, I was part of an audience in Abuja that attended the launch of the book Ogbeni: The Osun Renaissance Years, which tried to ex
  
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• The economy is stabilising

  07-09-2026 02:37 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Alliance for Economic Research and EthicsNigerians should be honest enough to acknowledge progress when progress has been made and courageous enough to say when progress has not yet become prosperity.The Tinubu administration deserves credit for taking decisions that many Nigerian governments postponed for years. The removal of the petrol subsidy, the movement toward a more market-based foreign-exchange regime, the abandonment of monetary financing of fiscal deficits, the rebuilding of
  
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• S/African Afrophobia: All eyes on AU

  07-09-2026 02:34 via vanguardngr.com
  
  President Bola Tinubu was right to take South Africa’s recurring xenophobic and Afrophobic attacks to the African Union (AU). Speaking for him at the AU’s 21st Extraordinary Session in Luanda, Vice President Kashim Shettima called for collective action and urged that the matter be placed on the agenda of the January 2027 General Assembly. That diplomatic escalation is overdue.South Africa’s latest wave of anti-immigrant violence has exposed an ugly contradiction in the contine
  
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• Nigeria’s rehabilitation crisis deepens as 80% of occupational therapists leave

  07-09-2026 01:43 via vanguardngr.com
  
  ….AS FSOT graduates 93 students
  By Chioma ObinnaNigeria is facing an acute shortage of occupational therapists, with about 80 per cent of those trained in the country reportedly leaving for greener pastures, worsening access to rehabilitation services for more than 200 million Nigerians.
  The Acting Registrar of the Federal School of Occupational Therapy (FSOT), Lagos, Mrs Philomena Omoike, raised the alarm at the institution’s 20th and 21st combined convocation, where 93 students g
  
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• Rising drug costs: Greenlife unveils new strategy, eyes local production

  07-09-2026 01:42 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Chioma ObinnaAmid rising costs of pharmaceutical raw materials and growing pressure on the drug industry, Greenlife Pharmaceuticals Limited has unveiled a new strategy to strengthen partnerships across the pharmaceutical value chain and advance plans for local manufacturing.
  The company’s new initiative, Pharmacy Access and Commercial Trade, PACT 2026, was launched at its inaugural forum in Lagos, bringing together major wholesalers and trade partners to discuss sustainable growth, bus
  
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• Anatomy: Okanlawon retires after 44 years, leaves legacy of scholars

  07-09-2026 01:42 via vanguardngr.com
  
  … As CMUL celebrates professor’s research, mentorship, institution-building
  By Chioma ObinnaAfter 44 years in academic medicine, Professor Olugbenga Abayomi Okanlawon is retiring from the College of Medicine, University of Lagos, CMUL, with colleagues describing his greatest legacy as the generations of scholars he trained and mentored.
  Okanlawon, who retires on September 16, began his journey in Anatomy as a medical student before becoming a professor, researcher, academic adminis
  
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• 11.2m Nigerians battle diabetes as stakeholders seek safer sugar cuts

  07-09-2026 01:40 via vanguardngr.com
  
  … NIFST, ISA call for science-based food reformulation, stronger local researchBy Chioma ObinnaWith an estimated 11.2 million Nigerians living with diabetes, food scientists and industry stakeholders have called for science-based measures to reduce sugar consumption without compromising food safety, quality or consumer choice.The stakeholders, under the Nigerian Institute of Food Science and Technology, NIFST, and the International Sweeteners Association, ISA, also urged the Federal Gove
  
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• SFU probes multi-billion-dollar fraud in oil sector

  07-09-2026 01:15 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Emma NnadozieThe Police Special Fraud Unit, SFU, Ikoyi, Lagos, has commenced investigations into alleged massive fraud running into billions of dollars in Nigeria’s oil and gas sector.
  The unit reportedly began probing the alleged fraud following complaints from concerned Nigerians and intelligence networks said to have uncovered what could be one of the biggest scams in the country’s oil and gas industry.
  In one of the cases, the investigation followed a petition by an anti-corr
  
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• Brain drain: Nigeria risks losing more eye specialists, OSN warns

  07-09-2026 01:12 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Damilola SamuelNigeria’s shortage of eye-care specialists could worsen as more ophthalmologists leave the country, with the Ophthalmological Society of Nigeria (OSN) estimating that the migration of a single specialist could cost the economy about $150,000 annually.The President of OSN, Dr Gloria Patrick-Ferife, raised the concern in a communiqué issued at the end of the society’s 51st Annual General Meeting and Scientific Conference in Abuja.The three-day conference, them
  
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• Colon cancer: Widow, 38, appeals for N5m to undergo chemotherapy

  07-09-2026 01:03 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Sola OgundipeAt 38, Aminat Bello should be building her fashion business and raising her three sons, instead, she is battling colon cancer and struggling to raise the money needed to complete her treatment.
  A widow, Aminat’s ordeal began on December 15, 2025, when she developed severe abdominal pain that left her unable to stand. Medical tests later revealed a tumour in her colon.
  She underwent surgery to remove the tumour on March 18, 2026. She was subsequently referred to the NSIA-LU
  
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