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• Refuse takes over roads in Ondo, Oyo, Ekiti, Ogun

  29-06-2026 19:25 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Dayo Johnson, Rotimi Ojomoyela, James Ogunnnaike & Adeola BadruAcross the South-West, major roads have been invaded by refuse heaps. The dumps of waste have gradually become common sites. Here is a panoramic review of the situation.Common sight in Lagos.Read Also: Insecurity: ‘He’s done his bit,’ Adeboye defends TinubuIn OndoRefuse dump at Arakale Market, Akure.Major streets in Akure, Ondo State capital, are under siege from mountains of refuse, with residents battling
  
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• Dollar to Naira exchange rate today, June 30, 2026

  30-06-2026 07:55 via vanguardngr.com
  
  The Nigerian naira began trading at an official exchange rate of ₦1,379.80 per United States dollar at the Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market (NFEM) on Tuesday, June 30, 2026, according to the latest available market data.The latest figure indicates that the naira remained within the ₦1,370 to ₦1,380 range seen in recent sessions as market participants continued to monitor foreign exchange liquidity and dollar demand. Data from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) showed the offici
  
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• Morocco down Netherlands to reach World Cup last 16

  30-06-2026 07:21 via vanguardngr.com
  
  Morocco defeated the Netherlands in a penalty shoot-out to advance to the last 16 of the World Cup on Monday after a thrilling battle in Monterrey finished 1-1 after extra-time.Morocco goalkeeper Yassine Bounou made the crucial save to block the Netherlands’ fifth penalty from Crysencio Summerville before striker Ismael Saibari stepped up to blast home the winning spot-kick that sealed a 3-2 shootout win.The victory sends Morocco into a last 16 clash with Canada in Houston on Saturday.An
  
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• Naira now N1,395/$ in parallel market

  30-06-2026 06:12 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Elizabeth AdegbesanTHE Naira yesterday depreciated to N1,395 per dollar in the parallel market from N1,386 per dollar last Friday.Similarly, the naira depreciated to N1,385 per dollar in the Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market, NFEM.Data  from the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, showed that the indicative exchange rate for the market rose to N1,385 per dollar from N1,384 per dollar last weekend,  indicating N1 depreciation for the naira. Consequently, the margin between the paralle
  
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• FEC reforms NYSC, to be headed by civilians

  30-06-2026 06:05 via vanguardngr.com
  
  •Introduces professional training for corps members to boost employabilityBy Johnbosco AgbakwuruABUJA — The Federal Executive Council, FEC, yesterday approved sweeping reforms to the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, announcing that the scheme will now be headed by a civilian instead of a military officer.Briefing State House correspondents after the FEC meeting presided over by President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, the Minister
  
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• Xenophobia: Over 15,000 Nigerians stranded as FG evacuates 271 today

  30-06-2026 05:57 via vanguardngr.com
  
  •It’s not true — Foreign Affairs MinistryBy Nkiruka Nnorom, Favour Ulebor and Dickson OmotolaNo fewer than 15,000 Nigerians willing to come back home, Vanguard can authoritatively report,  are still stranded in South Africa on the eve of June 30 deadline issued by anti-immigration groups.The revelation came as the federal government yesterday said it was evacuating 271 more Nigerians as it ramps up repatriation drive ahead of the deadline.A stranded Nigerian told Vang
  
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• FG orders marketers to reduce fuel price

  30-06-2026 05:33 via vanguardngr.com
  
  ***Dangote Refinery determines price changes — Marketers***NLC blames govt for fuel price standoffBy Udeme Akpan, Energy Editor, Victor Young, Ediri Ejoh & Obas EsiedesaLAGOS — The Federal Government has directed the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, NMDPRA, to ensure petroleum marketers do not exploit Nigerians through excessive pricing under the deregulated downstream petroleum market.Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Oil), Senator Hein
  
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• Where failure is free, nations pay, by Dakuku Peterside

  30-06-2026 04:57 via vanguardngr.com
  
  There is a powerful lesson in the political fate of Keir Starmer, but it is not merely a British lesson. It is not about Westminster drama or parliamentary theatre. It is about a deeper democratic principle: leadership improves only when failure has consequences.That is the discipline of public office. Power must never be separated from responsibility; authority must never be insulated from scrutiny. Where consequences are credible, leaders think harder, prepare better, and act with urgenc
  
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• How one resident’s voice rescued road project in Delta community

  30-06-2026 04:40 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Egufe YafugborhiFor 72 hours, progress froze on Imoniyamen Street. What was meant to be a celebratory kickoff for a long-awaited Delta State government road contract in Iwhrekpokpor, an Ughelli North suburb, turned into a standoff between community leadership and the project contractor.At the centre of it is the appointment of a Community Liaison Officer, CLO. The dispute stalled equipment, drove up costs, and exposed what residents now describe as a gap in state contract oversight. It
  
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• The NDC case and the dangerous precedent for democracy, by Ejiro Ofoye

  30-06-2026 04:12 via vanguardngr.com
  
  The decision of the Federal High Court sitting in Lokoja to set aside its earlier judgment directing the registration of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) has raised far-reaching legal and political questions that go beyond the fate of a single political party. At the heart of the controversy lies a fundamental question of law: can a judge, having delivered a final judgment, subsequently turn around and set aside that same judgment?For centuries, the answer has been largely settled by
  
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• Bayelsa community screams for help as medical facility collapses

  30-06-2026 04:10 via vanguardngr.com
  
  •Come to our rescue before more lives are lost — Chiefs beg govt, NDDC By Emem IdioOkoroba Cottage Hospital, a once thriving healthcare sanctuary, has been reduced to a haunting symbol of governmental neglect and the natives are crying out for help before it’s too late.The Okoroba Council of Chiefs last week sounded a desperate alarm over the crumbling state of the community’s only cottage hospital, describing the facility as a “ghost hospital” that now r
  
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• Boycott the boycottables (4), by Eric Teniola

  30-06-2026 03:56 via vanguardngr.com
  
  This week, we continue the narrative on boycott of elections in NigeriaSir Abubakar immediately confirmed that he would form “a broadly based government” representing all shades of opinion. He said completion of outstanding elections in the Eastern and Mid-Western Regions, as well as in Lagos, arrangements would be made to bring in new ministers and to make a general reassignment of all ministries.On January 13, 1965, the ministers in Sir Abubakar’s new government we
  
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• Jos lynch mob must be hunted down

  30-06-2026 03:53 via vanguardngr.com
  
  The lynching and burning of Malama Ummulkhairi in Maraban Jos, Kaduna State, is a stain on our national conscience. Taken into police protective custody recently after an unverified allegation that she intended to steal children, the mother of four was nevertheless seized by a mob and killed. That a citizen could be removed from state protection and burned alive before any inquiry or trial exposes a chilling collapse of authority and decency.
  Mob justice is not spontaneous righteousness. It is
  
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• Benue, Cross River: Good neighbours in conflicts that refuse to die 

  30-06-2026 03:44 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Emma UnaOBANLIKWU — They share borders stretching for tens of kilometres across several local government areas. Their people speak similar dialects, farm the same crops, inter-marry freely and drink from the same rivers. Yet, Benue and Cross River states, two ‘sister’ states bound by geography, culture and blood, find themselves locked in a cycle of perennial conflicts that refuses to die.From Obanlikwu in northern Cross River, where the state shares a boundary with Kw
  
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• DARKNESS IN THE LAND OF LIGHT: Isoko nation groans under 15-year blackout

  30-06-2026 03:22 via vanguardngr.com
  
  •Students read by candlelight, businesses collapseBy Ochuko AkuophaASABA — For over 15 years, the people of Isoko nation, an ethnic nationality blessed with over 100 oil wells and eight flow stations, have been living in what they describe as “total darkness,” even as the rest of Delta State moves forward.The situation has become so dire that students now read by candlelight in the 21st Century, businesses are folding up daily, and investors are shunning the land tha
  
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• AI will drive Africa’s sustainable development, Conference declares

  30-06-2026 02:56 via vanguardngr.com
  
  Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been identified as a critical catalyst for accelerating innovation, strengthening governance, improving institutional resilience and advancing sustainable development across Africa and the Global South, as experts at an international conference called for urgent investments in digital infrastructure, ethical governance and human capital development to enable the continent fully harness emerging technologies.
  The position formed the central outcome of the Interna
  
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• Igbo leaders reject concession of Enugu International Airport

  30-06-2026 02:53 via vanguardngr.com
  
  …Say FG funding withdrawal will undermine airport standardsBy Anayo OkoliENUGU — The Igbo Leaders of Thought (ILT), a group of prominent Igbo intellectuals, traditional rulers and stakeholders, has rejected the Federal Government’s concession of the Akanu Ibiam International Airport (AIIA), Enugu, to a private company.The group described the decision by the administration of President Bola Tinubu as “another grave act of injustice against Ndigbo” and a further dem
  
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• CBN’s HoldCo rules: What bank investors should watch

  30-06-2026 02:14 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By AYODEJI EBO The Central Bank of Nigeria recently released an exposure draft on the proposed new rules for Financial Holding Companies, commonly called HoldCos. This may sound technical, but it is important because many major banking groups in Nigeria now operate through HoldCo structures. A HoldCo is like a parent company that owns different businesses within a single group. For example, a group can own a bank, a pension business, an asset management company, a payment business, an
  
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• Osun: Governor Adeleke, fear and low-level politics

  30-06-2026 02:10 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By OLOLADE ADEYEMO When politicians sign themselves up to serve within a political jurisdiction, it is presumed there is a well-defined, development-oriented agenda in the pipeline waiting to be executed, if given a chance at the polls, for the benefit of the residents and citizens of that jurisdiction.As a rider to this, a healthy democracy like what obtains in the Nigerian political arena makes allowance for campaigns, rallies and debates, which become avenues for a person desiring
  
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• US director sentenced to 30 months for defrauding Netflix

  30-06-2026 01:39 via vanguardngr.com
  
  American director Carl Rinsch, known for the 2013 film “47 Ronin,” was sentenced Monday to 30 months in prison for defrauding Netflix of millions of dollars, prosecutors in New York announced.Rinsch was convicted last year of misspending $11 million paid to him by the the streaming platform in 2020 to create a science fiction series called “White Horse.”“Instead of using the money to make the show, Rinsch made risky bets on highly speculative stock options and cryp
  
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• Paraguay beat Germany on penalties to reach World Cup last 16

  30-06-2026 01:35 via vanguardngr.com
  
  Paraguay stunned Germany in a penalty shootout on Monday to reach the last 16 of the World Cup.The South Americans won 4-3 on spot kicks after the match finished 1-1 in extra-time to inflict Germany’s first ever defeat in a penalty shootout in a World Cup.
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• Germany v Paraguay World Cup last-32 game goes into extra-time

  30-06-2026 00:39 via vanguardngr.com
  
  The last-32 game between Germany and Paraguay became the first knockout match of the 2026 World Cup to go to extra time.Julio Enciso gave Paraguay the lead just before half-time in Foxborough but Kai Havertz levelled for Germany in a game of few chances.AFP
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• NDC insists it remains legally recognised, appeals court judgment

  30-06-2026 00:30 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Henry UmoruThe Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, has appealed last week’s Lokoja Federal High Court judgment, mandating the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, not to recognise the NDC as a political party pending when all legal issues surrounding it are resolved.The NDC has maintained that it remains a legally recognised political party despite the recent judgment of the Federal High Court sitting in Lokoja, assuring its members and supporters that the ruling did not amou
  
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• Three killed as floods paralyse Ghana capital

  29-06-2026 23:59 via vanguardngr.com
  
  Torrential rains sparked flooding across Accra on Monday, killing at least three people, authorities and local media reported, with the president blaming climate change and unchecked urbanisation.Flooding is common during Ghana’s rainy season, but residents say inundations in the capital have become worse in recent years due to rapid urbanisation, the building on and blocking of waterways, and a lack of investment in drainage infrastructure.Some 140 millimetres of rain fell on the city in
  
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• Ancelotti says never doubted ‘suffering’ Brazil would score

  29-06-2026 23:18 via vanguardngr.com
  
  Brazil coach Carlo Ancelotti said he knew his “suffering” side would eventually score and praised their patience in reaching the World Cup last 16 with a last-gasp 2-1 win over Japan on Monday.Substitute Gabriel Martinelli pounced in the 95th minute in Houston for the five-time champions and sent dark horses Japan home.It was the latest winning goal in normal time of the knockout stages of the World Cup on record (since 1966).Japan led 1-0 at the break after some sloppy Brazil play
  
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• MLS Chicago Fire announce signing of Lewandowski

  29-06-2026 23:09 via vanguardngr.com
  
  Poland’s all-time leading goal scorer Robert Lewandowski has signed a contract through the 2027-28 campaign with the Chicago Fire, the Major League Soccer club announced on Monday.The 37-year-old striker arrives from Barcelona after helping the Spanish giants capture the La Liga crown last month having starred from 2014-2022 with Bayern Munich.Lewandowski has scored more than 700 goals for Poland and his club squads, leading German and Spanish leagues in scoring for eight years.Lewandowsk
  
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• FG, SSANU sign agreement on renegotiation

  29-06-2026 23:05 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Johnbosco AgbakwuruThe Federal Government and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) on Monday signed an agreement on the 2009 renegotiation.The agreement marked the end of the face-off between the government and SSANU.This is as the national president of SSANU, Comrade Mohammed Haruna Ibrahim, has called on the federal government to begin implementation of the agreement with alacrity.Speaking after the agreement was sealed, Ibrahim described it as a historic milestone
  
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• Doctors in England accept pay deal to end strikes

  29-06-2026 23:00 via vanguardngr.com
  
  Doctors in England have voted to accept a pay and conditions offer, the UK government announced on Monday, bringing to an end a year of strike action.The so-called resident doctors — those below consultant level — have accepted an average 6.6 percent pay uplift to be implemented by April 2027.The deal will mean medics’ pay will be more than 35 percent higher on average than it was four years ago, the Department of Health said.It will also see 4,500 extra specialty trainin
  
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• Switzerland returns famed Benin Bronzes to Nigeria

  29-06-2026 22:47 via vanguardngr.com
  
  Swiss authorities on Monday returned 18 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria in a ceremony at the National Museum in Lagos, the latest addition to the nation’s growing collection of repatriated treasures.Countries across Africa have been pushing in recent years for the restitution of artefacts and artworks taken during the colonial period — including Nigeria’s famed Benin Bronzes, which were looted as spoils of war by the British and today are scattered in museums and private collections
  
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• US disclosure on neutralised 199 jihadists refers to May operation – DHQ

  29-06-2026 22:35 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Kingsley OmonobiThe Defence Headquarters, DHQ, on Monday said the recent disclosure by the United States on the killing of 199 jihadists and the recovery of a massive cache of ISIS arms, ammunition and electronic equipment was not a fresh operation but the declassification of a successful joint Nigeria-US counter-terrorism mission carried out in May 2026.Director of Defence Information, Major General Samaila Uba, told Vanguard that the operation had already been announced by the Nigerian mil
  
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