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• LCCI seeks stronger regulatory oversight to curb exploitative pricing

  22-07-2026 17:46 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Yinka Kolawole
  The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) has called for stronger regulatory oversight of Nigeria’s pricing environment, urging the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) and other relevant agencies to protect consumers and businesses from unfair market practices.
  Speaking on the state of the economy in Lagos, Wednesday, LCCI President, Engr. Leye Kupoluyi, said while the chamber does not advocate price controls, regulators should ensure t
  
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• Akpabio vs Oshiomhole: Housemates in the Red Chamber, by Stephanie Shaakaa

  25-07-2026 08:30 via vanguardngr.com
  
  Watching the proceedings of the Senate in recent weeks, one could be forgiven for wondering whether Nigeria’s latest reality show has quietly moved from the television studio to the National Assembly.Read Also: Fake agency originated from Buhari government — Budget Office explains PFIPC allocationIf anyone had suggested that the next big source of national entertainment would come from the Red Chamber rather than a television set, many Nigerians would probably have laughed.
  
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• 2027: Ondo APC disowns Ex-commissioner over claim Tinubu may lose state

  25-07-2026 08:18 via vanguardngr.com
  
  —-Sets up reconciliation committee after primary disputesBy Dayo Johnson AkureThe leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ondo State has disowned former Commissioner for Energy and Mineral Resources, Rasaq Obe, over his outburst that President Bola Tinubu may lose the 2027 presidential election in the state following the party’s decision to drop some aspirants backed by Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa.Obe was an aspirant for the Ifedore/Idanre Federal Constituency. He lost th
  
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• Trump calls LeBron James ‘Maybe a Racist,’ backs Michael Jordan in GOAT debate

  25-07-2026 08:13 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Enitan AbdultawabU.S. President Donald Trump has taken another swipe at NBA superstar LeBron James, suggesting the basketball icon is “maybe a racist” while weighing in on the long-running debate over who is the greatest player of all time.Trump made the remarks on Friday while answering questions in the Oval Office after being asked whether he considered James or NBA legend Michael Jordan the better player.“LeBron is, maybe he’s a racist. Maybe he doesn’t like
  
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• Delta LG 2nd Anniversary: Citizens demand greater transparency

  25-07-2026 08:09 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Akpokona OmafuaireAs chairmen of Delta State’s 25 local government councils mark two years in office, banners, congratulatory messages and official statements celebrating the milestone have begun to appear across the state. Yet beyond the ceremonies and accolades, many residents are asking a more fundamental question: what has changed in their communities since the current administrations assumed office?Read Also: Fake agency originated from Buhari government — Budget O
  
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• Ex-inmates beg FG to intervene as over 30 Nigerians languish in Tanzania prisons

  25-07-2026 07:58 via vanguardngr.com
  
  •FG to push prisoner transfer deal with Tanzanian authorities — Foreign Affairs Ministry By Nkiruka NnoromTwo Nigerian men recently released from prisons in Tanzania have appealed to the Federal Government to urgently intervene and secure the transfer of other Nigerians still languishing in jails across the East African country.The ex-inmates, Okechukwu and Henry, told Saturday Vanguard separately that poor prison conditions, lack of parole for foreigners, and long delays i
  
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• Lassa fever death toll hits 229 as fresh infections rise

  25-07-2026 07:46 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Chioma ObinnaNigeria’s Lassa fever outbreak has claimed 229 lives this year, with the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, NCDC, confirming a fresh spike in infections as 25 new cases were recorded in one week across five states.
  The latest Lassa Fever Situation Report for Epidemiological Week 28 showed that confirmed cases rose from 14 in Week 27 to 25 in Week 28, with new infections reported in Ondo, Bauchi, Edo, Kogi and Cross River states.
  The report also revealed tha
  
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• Osun: You can’t suspend NURTW, MC Oluomo tells Adeleke

  25-07-2026 07:45 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Luminous JannamikeThe National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, on Friday openly defied Governor Ademola Adeleke’s order suspending its activities in Osun State, insisting that no state governor has the power to shut down the operations of the nationally recognised transport union.Read Also: Adeleke bans NURTW activities in OsunWhat began as a violent struggle for the control of motor parks in Osogbo has now snowballed into a face-off between the Osun State Government and t
  
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• NDLEA gets court nod to destroy N480bn meth lab in Ogun

  25-07-2026 07:38 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Innocent Anaba The  National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has been granted leave by a Federal High Court in Lagos to destroy an alleged N480 billion methamphetamine laboratory uncovered in Abidagba Forest, Ijebu East Local Government Area of Ogun State.Read Also: NDLEA uncovers Meth lab in Lagos communityTrial judge, Justice Musa Kakaki gave the green light on  Friday despite opposition from three Mexican nationals and seven Nigerians, who are standing trial over t
  
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• Pensions: Stop ghosting, shadow chasing, Atiku tells Tinubu

  25-07-2026 07:33 via vanguardngr.com
  
  •Says Obasanjo/Atiku administration laid foundation for current sustainable pension scheme The presidential flag bearer of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, has waved off the recent insinuation and innuendo by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in respect of Federal Government Pension backlog, as unnecessary ghosting and futile political shadow chasing by an inept APC-led administration.Read Also: MAN, NACCIMA, NECA, NASME, NASSI
  
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• 2027: Can PDP fight its way back?

  25-07-2026 06:58 via vanguardngr.com
  
  *As party leaders invoke history, faith and defiance to rally supporters in Abuja, a bruising court setback exposes the legal and political hurdles confronting Nigeria’s main opposition on the road to 2027.By Luminous Jannamike, ABUJAThe message was unmistakable: the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would not go quietly. Beneath the bright lights of a packed stakeholders’ meeting in Abuja, applause repeatedly drowned out whispers of collapse as former governors, Board of Tru
  
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• No, Abacha didn’t die in bed with a woman

  25-07-2026 06:45 via vanguardngr.com
  
  *Dennis Amachree Misrepresented; how He DiedBy Tony EluemunorHow did the former Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha die? I had focused on the answer since mid-1999 when I arrived Abuja as a Guardian newspaper correspondent intending to write a book on the presidency.So, I easily knew that Mr. Dennis Amachree, a former Assistant Director (Operations) in the Department of State Security (DSS) muddied the waters some more with his version of how the military head of State, General Sani Abach
  
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• Terrorism: Why military faces tough challenges in North

  25-07-2026 06:37 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Evelyn Usman; Peter Duru; Musa Ubandawaki & Golok NanmwaAs Northern leaders and other stakeholders express pain and fear over the unending reign of terror unleashed by terrorists, investigations have revealed the challenges encountered by the military which make rescue operations difficult in the northern part of the country despite increased deployment of security personnel to troubled areas.According to security experts, retired military commanders and intelligence officers who spoke w
  
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• More than 160,000 flee out-of-control wildfires in France, Spain

  25-07-2026 06:18 via vanguardngr.com
  
  France and Spain evacuated more than 160,000 people as unprecedented forest fires ravaged areas on Saturday near Madrid and Bordeaux, a French city flanked by tourist havens and world-renowned vineyards.French President Emmanuel Macron asked the army on Friday to mobilise to help contain the worst wildfire the country has ever seen after seeking European Union help, as a local official warned the blaze was heading towards Bordeaux.Authorities ordered the evacuation of towns near Bordeaux &ldquo
  
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• Fake agency originated from Buhari government — Budget Office explains PFIPC allocation

  25-07-2026 06:04 via vanguardngr.com
  
  •Explains how PFIPC was allocated money in the budgetBy Emma Ujah, Abuja Bureau Chief & Gift Chapi-OdekinaThe Budget Office of the Federation (BOF) yesterday explained that the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC), which the presidency declared as fake and is currently being investigated by the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission, ICPC, had its origin in the last administration of late President Muhammadu Buhari.Read Also: N1.32bn allocation: No Kobo wa
  
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• Police arrest ASP, three Inspectors over viral video of ethnically insensitive remarks

  25-07-2026 05:49 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Dayo Johnson, AkureThe Ondo State Police Command has arrested an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) and three Inspectors after a viral video where the were seen making unprofessional and ethnically insensitive remarks to a member of the public.  Command spokesperson DSP Jimoh Abayomi told journalists in Akure that the officers were apprehended while on stop-and-search duty along the Lagos–Benin Expressway.  He identified them as AP/No. 207454 ASP Elomore
  
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• IG orders police officers to shoot anyone carrying illegal firearms

  25-07-2026 05:25 via vanguardngr.com
  
  The Inspector-General of Police, Olatunji Disu, has directed police officers across the country to shoot on sight anyone found carrying illegal firearms, as part of intensified efforts to curb insecurity.Disu issued the directive on Friday during a stakeholders’ meeting at the Government House in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, saying the move followed President Bola Tinubu’s instruction that the lingering security crisis in the state must be brought to an end.The police chief mai
  
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• The father I inherited, the mother who raised me, by Stephanie Shaakaa

  25-07-2026 04:22 via vanguardngr.com
  
  A journey through blood, belonging, and the complicated search for the people who shape us before we even know their names.The first time Chidiadi Okoro seriously considered changing his surname, he was not searching for a father.He was searching for a missing part of himself.At thirty two years old, standing in a Lagos registry with a pen in his hand and a deed poll before him, he found himself facing a decision that looked administrative on paper but carried the weight of a lifetime.
  
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• Ehizode: Canagerian for life, by Emeka Obasi

  25-07-2026 03:00 via vanguardngr.com
  
  Welcome to Canada, the land where Nigeria’s first Commonwealth gold medal was achieved by Arinze Ifeajuna at Vancouver 1954. Daniel Igali won Olympic gold for the North Americans and also captained the team.Joe Ehizode, like many Nigerians, has found home in Surrey, British Columbia. He was a sports journalist before relocating nearly three decades ago. Denying his roots is out of it. What has come to stay is a middle way out, with malice towards none.He wrote : “I owe my
  
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• Is Gov Otti Tinubu’s agent? By Ugoji Egbujo

  25-07-2026 02:58 via vanguardngr.com
  
  If every major ally of Peter Obi behaved exactly like Alex Otti, the practical effect would be a significantly weakened, fragmented, and less confrontational opposition ahead of 2027.And this isn’t because , he didnt move to the NDC with Peter Obi. No, far from it. This is because if  all Obi’s allies adopted the same stance, the opposition would still exist, but it would look more like a collection of locally focused pragmatists than a disciplined alternative governm
  
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• Trump’s Letter, Atiku’s Lobbyists and old American stories about Tinubu, by Emmanuel Aziken

  25-07-2026 02:56 via vanguardngr.com
  
  Politics is often less about the event itself than about the timing of the event. A document released today may have been written weeks earlier, but when it surfaces at a politically sensitive moment, it immediately acquires a meaning far beyond its contents. That is the context in which the recent exchange involving President Bola Tinubu, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and the administration of President Donald Trump should be understood.For weeks, reports had circulated that l
  
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• Towards healing a nation’s 60 yr old wound, by Muyiwa Adetiba

  25-07-2026 02:55 via vanguardngr.com
  
  This is the sixtieth year – to the week – of the July 1966 coup that has been infamously regarded as a counter-coup. A coup thatunfortunately marked the degeneration of a Nigeria that our fore fathers strove for and tried to build.A coup that subsequently led to a thirty- month Civil War which still leaves a lingering bitter taste in many mouths today. It is called a counter-coup because there had been a coup six months earlier which turned out to be lopsided in its execut
  
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• SEGUN ODEGBAMI: The 2026 World Cup – my take!

  25-07-2026 02:52 via vanguardngr.com
  
  The 2026 FIFA World Cup has come and gone. My first take-away is the painful fact that Nigeria was absent. The pain lingers. That the Super Eagles were not a part of an event that gripped the attention of the whole world for a period of 6 weeks was a nightmare Nigerians must wake up from. The administration that failed the country must not return to power under any circumstance. Coaches are sacked, Players are dropped and Administrators voluntarily ‘retire’ or are shown th
  
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• Proposed AJ vs Itauma mega fight can surpass Rumble in the Jungle – Oboh 

  25-07-2026 02:50 via vanguardngr.com
  
  Balmoral Promotions is targeting a blockbuster heavyweight fight in Nigeria between Anthony Joshua and new heavyweight sensation, Moses Itauma for 2027 in Nigeria, though no official agreement is in place yet. The proposed bout is envisioned to happen in Lagos as a means of bringing home the two Anglo-British fighters whose roots are in Nigeria.This news has excited former Commonwealth and British light heavyweight boxing Champion Peter Idemudia Oboh, who, in his active days also fought under t
  
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• NFF elective congress entangled in legal cobwebs

  25-07-2026 02:48 via vanguardngr.com
  
  .A perpetration of illegality – Baribote.There’s no level playing field – Fuludu.September election already decided – ToroBY JACOB AJOMIt is one week since the curtains fell on the 2026 FIFA World Cup in New York. Spain deservedly carted away the gold trophy at the expense of a conservative Argentina side. The better side won effortlessly as good football prevailed.For many Nigerians the outcome did not matter much, but the pain of not having been represented by the coun
  
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• Commonwealth Games: Can Ajayi end Nigeria’s 96 years jinx in men’s 100m in Glasgow?

  25-07-2026 02:43 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Douglas Baye-Osagie Athletics historians can’t wait for a better opportunity than now to believe Nigeria is on the verge of winning one of the most elusive gold medals in our sports history. Despite a rich avalanche of great sprinters, a men’s 100m gold medal at the Commonwealth Games has been embarrassingly elusive.For 96 years, the Commonwealth Games have rolled around like clockwork. The gun first cracked in Hamilton 1930, the steel city of Canada. Then it echoed in Londo
  
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• Trump says EU to pay ‘very big price’ for Google fine

  25-07-2026 00:29 via vanguardngr.com
  
  US President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to hit the European Union with tariffs and a formal trade investigation over Brussels’ latest antitrust penalty against Google.In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump said the bloc “will pay a very big price for this illegal and highly unethical conduct, which I have consistently warned them about.”He said he would “immediately initiate a 301 Investigation” into what he called the EU’s practice of “ROB
  
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• Africa must control its resources, trade – Shettima

  25-07-2026 00:20 via vanguardngr.com
  
  Vice President Kashim Shettima says African nations must take their rightful place in controlling the continent’s resources and global trade.Shettima spoke on Friday in Cotonou, Republic of Benin, during a tour and assessment of the Glo-Djigbé Industrial Zone (GDIZ).He said Africa must maximise its vast natural endowments by developing industries capable of processing raw materials into higher-value products.The vice president said Nigeria’s renewed industrialisation drive wo
  
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• 2027: Your votes will count, INEC chair assures Nigerians

  24-07-2026 23:40 via vanguardngr.com
  
  … as Abdulsalam rallies support for INECBy Omeiza Ajayi, AbujaThe Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has reassured Nigerians that their votes will count in the forthcoming 2027 General Election.This was as former Head of State and Chairman of the National Peace Committee (NPC), General Abdulsalam Abubakar (retd.), called on Nigerians to rally support behind the Commission ahead of the polls.INEC, in its daily bulletin, said the assurance was given by its Chairman, Prof. Joash
  
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• Nnewi PG dismisses reported pull-out threat by Nnewi Ichi, insists elective tenure is four years

  24-07-2026 23:33 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Vincent UjumaduThe President-General of Nzuko Ora Nnewi, Prince Jude Osumuo, has dismissed reports that Nnewi Ichi, one of the four quarters of Nnewi in Anambra State, is threatening to withdraw from the community’s umbrella body over the tenure of the Mayor of Nnewi North Local Government Area.Speaking in an interview in Nnewi, Osumuo described the reported threat as unfounded and reiterated that, under the community’s zoning arrangement, elective offices are rotated among the f
  
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