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• Shipping firms in Nigeria record 2,300 stowaways in 2025

  06-12-2025 04:50 via vanguardngr.com
  By Godwin OritseThe Shipping Association of Nigeria (SAN) has raised concerns over the persistent incidence of
  stowaways at Nigerian port berths, revealing that vessels recorded about 2,300 security infractions in 2025.However, the Nigerian Immigration Service, NIS, has dismissed the association’s figures, stating that the numbers were not accurate.Speaking to newsmen in Lagos, the association’s chairman, Boma Alabi, SAN, lamented that despite payments made to government agencies re
  
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• Knowing when to quit, by Patrick Omorodion

  07-12-2025 02:12 via vanguardngr.com
  The Bible tells us in Ecclesiastes 3 and verse one that “there is time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.”One African proverb says that if one over stays in a latrine, he would begin to see flies of different colours.This means that if you don’t quit from a position when the ovation is loudest, the same mouth people used in praising you, they will also use in ridiculing you when you start floundering.Today’s piece is about two captains of
  
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• Osun poll: APC in turmoilas Omisore, others blow hot over mass disqualification

  07-12-2025 01:44 via vanguardngr.com
  By Omeiza AjayiThe crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State deepened on Saturday after six of the seven disqualified governorship aspirants, led by a former National Secretary of the party, Senator Iyiola Omisore, rejected the decision of the screening panel, describing it as a politically-motivated hatchet job that threatens the party’s electoral chances.Only two of the nine aspirants who appeared before the screening committee were cleared, while seven—incl
  
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• APC govs back Tinubu on security reforms

  07-12-2025 01:38 via vanguardngr.com
  By Olasunkanmi AkoniProgressive Governors Forum, PGF, has passed a vote of confidence on President Bola Tinubu administration’s security reforms and his reelection in 2027.The governors urged Nigerians to remain calm in the face of insecurity, saying government was taking holistic measures to tackle the challenge.Chairman of the PGF and governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodimma, made the declaration while reading the communique arrived at the end of a crucial meeting held by the PGF and All Pr
  
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• Violence and the ’emilokan’ presidency, by Obi Nwakanma

  07-12-2025 01:32 via vanguardngr.com
  It is no longer news that the current APC administration – the ‘Emilokan’ presidency of Mr. Bola Ahmed Tinubu – has no answers to the problems facing Nigeria. Bola Tinubu is in fact, out of his depths. He has not the actual training, the intellectual capacity, the visionary or rhetorical ability to move Nigeria forward. He is negotiating with terrorists.
  He is not only clueless – yes that word again that has come to haunt the APC and its supporters who first u
  
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• Why open marriages work for some!

  07-12-2025 01:29 via vanguardngr.com
  By Bunmi SofolaOPEN marriages work when one partner, usually the wife, turns a blind eye to her husband’s shenanigans.  In most cases, the husband is usually careful not to push his luck by always flaunting his trophies.  In a few cases, however, wives have been known to forgive the humiliation of a serial adulterer all in the name o love and a sad excuse of hanging on to the marriage.  When Ope met Abdul a couple of years back, it was at the insistence of Clara, her b
  
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• Let’s obey courts on vehicle inspection, by Tonnie Iredia

  07-12-2025 01:27 via vanguardngr.com
  Extortion of members of the public under the guise of law enforcement has for years served as a covert strategy by which officials of certain societal institutions in Nigeria enhance their own take-home pay. It is irrelevant that such enhancements are illegal. What is important is that all over Nigeria, vehicle owners and commercial drivers are coerced to pay different fines for undisclosed traffic offences to sundry law enforcement agencies. Incidentally, such payments are hardly ever rem
  
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• The season of good news, by Funmi Komolafe

  07-12-2025 01:25 via vanguardngr.com
  Congratulations to all our readers.  We made it to the 12th month.  Glory be to God!.The twelfth month is symbolic because it can also be regarded as the month of Good News.  It is the month that ushers in a season of celebration.If not for anything, it is time to thank   the Almighty God for the grace to be alive.With a bit of reflection, one would appreciate many reasons to thank God.Beloved, you want to ask, what is significant about the twelfth month.The Old Te
  
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• Emefiele rejects terrorism funding allegation

  07-12-2025 01:24 via vanguardngr.com
  Former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr Godwin Emefiele, has condemned reports alleging that he is among those financing terrorism in the country.Terrorist financiers are individuals or entities that provide or collect funds with the intention or knowledge that such funds will be used to support terrorist acts, individual terrorists, or terrorist organisations.Emefiele, in a statement, described the claim as fake, saying it was fabricated to tarnish his name.He stated, “Categor
  
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• I stand by President Tinubu against foreign Intervention (2), by Dele Sobowale

  07-12-2025 01:21 via vanguardngr.com
  “Allow an untenable situation to persist for a long time; and, suddenly, there are no good options left” – Arthur Burns, Chairman, US Federal Reserve Bank, 1987Contrary to my expectations of an avalanche of negative reactions to the first part of this article, there were very few; and the majority admitted that most Nigerians, now in the panic mode, can hardly think clearly about the multi-faceted security crisis being experienced nationwide. One individual, apparently, m
  
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• How herdsmen’s marginalisation fuels insecurity – Gov Yahaya

  07-12-2025 01:18 via vanguardngr.com
  By Ibrahim Hassan-WuyoThe Chairman of the Northern Governors’ Forum and Governor of Gombe State, Muhammad Inuwa
  Yahaya says the failure to understand the grievances that pushed armed bandits to take up weapons is one of the major factors worsening insecurity across northern Nigeria.In an interview with the BBC Hausa Service monitored by our correspondent in Kaduna, Yahaya revealed that the 19 northern governors have agreed to establish a joint regional security coordination agency, with e
  
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• PDP moves to sack Rivers Assembly defectors

  07-12-2025 01:10 via vanguardngr.com
  By Luminous Jannamike, AbujaTHE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has escalated its push to reclaim the seats of some Rivers State lawmakers who announced their defection from the party for a second time, saying it will now trigger constitutional measures to retrieve the mandates the legislators ‘abandoned.’The party framed the repeated defections as a deliberate affront to the legislature and a violation of the 1999 Constitution.In a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretar
  
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• Nigeria trapped in dangerous cycle of ‘inflation, growth without progress’ — Oye, ex-NACCIMA boss

  07-12-2025 01:07 via vanguardngr.com
  Issues three-stage reform blueprint
  By Nnamdi OjiegoChairman of Alliance for Economic and Research and Ethics LTD/GTE and former NACCIMA President, Hon. Dele Oye, has warned that Nigeria is trapped in a dangerous cycle of “inflation, growth without progress, and worsening economic fragility.”Presenting a public lecture titled “Inflation, Growth Without Progress, and Survival Strategies for Nigeria: Diagnosis, Policy Priorities and Practical Responses,” at the second editi
  
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• Nnamdi Kanu’s new neighbours speak on ‘unusual prisoner’ in Sokoto

  07-12-2025 00:59 via vanguardngr.com
  •Controversy over Gov Otti’s visit to IPOB leaderBy Musa Ubandawaki, SokotoTension is gradually building across Sokoto metropolis as residents struggle to cope with the presence of IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu who is currently serving his sentence at the Sokoto Central Correctional Centre.The development has unsettled many homes, businesses, transport operators and community dwellers, with fear spreading particularly across Yar Marina, the heart of Sokoto city where the correctional facili
  
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• The Cracks, the Calling, and the Conscience: A Honest Look at Today’s Nigerian Church

  07-12-2025 00:46 via vanguardngr.com
  By Sola AdebawoI’ve been thinking about the atmosphere in the Nigerian Christian community lately, and it feels… tense. Not dramatic, exactly, but like one of those family meetings where everyone is avoiding eye contact because nobody wants to say the obvious. At some point, though, someone has to talk about it. Maybe that’s what this is.One of the biggest concerns floating around is the slow erosion of unity. Nigerian Christians have always celebrated the idea of being
  
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• Ambassadorial Nomination: I saw it coming for Mrs. Ajimobi

  07-12-2025 00:33 via vanguardngr.com
  By Kehinde OlaosebikanWhen someone has quality, it may be latent but when a person is made of great quality, it is discernible to all. Behind every successful man, they say, there is a woman. Her husband has gone to rest in the bosom of the Lord, but she keeps the flag flying and very far beyond expectations. This is the story of Chief Mrs Fatima Florence Ajimobi, the First Lady of Oyo State from 2011 to 2019.During Senator Abiola Ajimobi’s administration as the Governor of Oyo State
  
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• South moves against northern bandits

  07-12-2025 00:31 via vanguardngr.com
  By Dayo Johnson, Rotimi Ojomoyela, James Ogunnaike, Adeola Badru, Alemma Aliu, Olasunkanmi Akoni, Steve Oko and Egufe YafubougiAs bandits from the North push farther toward the fringes of the South, security anxieties have deepened across the southern corridor, stretching from the thick forests of Oke-Ogun in Oyo to the oil-rich creeks of the Niger Delta.The widening arc of bandit movements, according to multiple findings by Sunday Vanguard, now touches strategic boundary points in Kwara, Kogi,
  
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• Bunmi Tunji- Ojo: The magical revolutionist

  07-12-2025 00:29 via vanguardngr.com
  By Dapo IpoolaAccording to an extensive research work, a revolutionist is a person who advocates for or takes part in a revolution, seeking to bring about a radical or sweeping change in government, laws, or a social system. These individuals are often associated with being rebellious, radical, and willing to challenge established authority. They either actively support the idea of a revolution or get directly involved in carrying one out; and the believe in making rapid and sweeping changes, w
  
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• What the ‘Bad Naira’ Problem Means for Nigeria’s Digital Economy

  07-12-2025 00:03 via vanguardngr.com
  By Sunny Joseph ImohimiIn recent months, conversations across Nigeria’s digital finance community have been dominated by one phrase: “bad Naira.” From P2P crypto traders to fintech operators and everyday users, many Nigerians are sounding the alarm about fraudulent or compromised funds circulating through informal digital channels particularly peer-to-peer (P2P) exchanges.This concern is not misplaced. Nigeria’s P2P market, while innovative and widely adopted, has also b
  
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• Messi leads Inter Miami to first MLS Cup title

  06-12-2025 23:24 via vanguardngr.com
  Lionel Messi inspired Inter Miami to their first ever MLS Cup title on Saturday, playing a leading role in a 3-1 victory over the Vancouver Whitecaps in Florida.Argentina superstar Messi provided assists for two goals and helped create another to spark wild celebrations before a rapturous home crowd at the Chase Stadium in Fort Lauderdale.Miami took the lead after an early Edier Ocampo own goal but were left reeling by Ali Ahmed’s second half-equaliser for Vancouver.But Messi then laid on
  
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• ‘I feel thrown under the bus’ – Salah opens door to Liverpool exit

  06-12-2025 23:05 via vanguardngr.com
  Mohamed Salah took aim at Liverpool manager Arne Slot in an astonishing rant that could spell the end of his legendary career at Anfield after claiming he has been “thrown under the bus” during the Premier League champions’ slump in form.The Egyptian was left on the bench for the third consecutive game in Saturday’s 3-3 draw at Leeds and was not even introduced as a substitute by Slot.After next weekend’s home match against Brighton, Salah is set to depart for the
  
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• EU ‘should be abolished’ – Elon Musk says after fine against X

  06-12-2025 22:47 via vanguardngr.com
  Elon Musk clapped back Saturday at the European Union after it hit the tech tycoon’s X social media platform with a major fine, telling his 230 million online followers that the EU should be “abolished.”Following a high-profile probe seen as a test of EU resolve to police Big Tech, the social media platform owned by the world’s richest person was slapped with a fine of 120 million euros ($140 million) on Friday for breaking the bloc’s digital rules.The penalty was
  
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• State Creation: Ohanaeze commends South East governors for endorsing Anioma as 6th State

  06-12-2025 22:23 via vanguardngr.com
  By Henry UmoruABUJA — The apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has praised the South East Governors for endorsing the creation of Anioma State, describing the decision as a step rooted in viability, historical justice, and the pursuit of Igbo unity.In a statement issued by the Forum of Ohanaeze State Presidents, the group said the development marks “a new dawn for Ndigbo,” and commended the South East Governors and National Assembly members for what it calle
  
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• Liverpool slump self-inflicted, says Slot

  06-12-2025 22:13 via vanguardngr.com
  Liverpool only have themselves to blame for throwing away another two Premier League points, according to Arne Slot, after Leeds snatched a dramatic 3-3 draw at Elland Road.Twice the Reds appeared in a commanding position as they led 2-0 through Hugo Ekitike’s double and even bounced back after Leeds levelled at 2-2 to restore their advantage thanks to Dominic Szoboszlai’s strike.However, the vulnerability of Slot’s men from set pieces cost them once more when Ao Tanaka fired
  
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• Nigeria has potential to become global healthcare hub if… — NMA

  06-12-2025 22:06 via vanguardngr.com
  By James Ogunnaike, AbeokutaThe National President of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Prof. Bala Audu, has disclosed that Nigeria has the potential of becoming global healthcare hub, if the country strengthens conditions for its frontline professionals.Prof. Audu, who stated this during a press briefing at the end of the association’s National Executive Council (NEC) meeting in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, revealed that Nigeria already hosts a wide pool of highly skilled speciali
  
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• Namutala wins Abuja half marathon as Kenyans dominate podium

  06-12-2025 21:42 via vanguardngr.com
  Kenya’s Kephar Namutala on Saturday won the 2025 Premium Trust Bank Abuja City International Half Marathon with a commanding performance in the men’s race.Read Also: ‘Entirely scripted’; Ola Aina denies going after fellow footballer’s girlfriendNamutala, wearing Bib Number 9, powered home in 1:05:14:45 to claim the top prize of 8,000 dollars in the event’s second edition.The Kenyans secured a clean sweep as Edwin Kipyago finished second in 1:05:39.73 to earn
  
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• Ooni launches Ojaja University

  06-12-2025 21:32 via vanguardngr.com
  The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Ojaja II on Saturday launched Ojaja University, Ile-Ife Campus, describing it as a model for educational reform in the country.
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  The event took place at the University’s campus, Ile-Ife, as part of the activities marking the 10th Coronation Anniversary of Ooni Ogunwusi.Speaking at the event, the traditional ruler described the university as a legacy project, non-profit making.Oba Ogunwusi appreciat
  
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• Monarch intervenes to halt bloody conflict between Benue communities

  06-12-2025 21:21 via vanguardngr.com
  By Peter Duru, MakurdiAn emergency peace meeting convened on Saturday by the Chairman of the Sankera Intermediate Area Traditional Council, HRH David Sevav has brought leaders of Kendev and Tyuluv Council Wards in Ukum Local Government Area, LGA, of Benue state together in a bid to avert an emerging conflict between the two neighbouring communities.The meeting followed reports that some youths from the Tyuluv axis had allegedly been terrorising residents of Kendev, creating tension and threaten
  
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• Politicians fuelling division in Nigeria – Utomi

  06-12-2025 21:19 via vanguardngr.com
  Pat Utomi, a professor of political economy and management expert, says Nigerian politicians are responsible for the divisions in the country.Utomi said this at the “1st Tony Uranta Memorial Lecture” held in honour of the late Uranta on Saturday in Lagos State.The lecture, organised by Tony Uranta Foundation (TIU), had as its theme, “Unity in Diversity: Building a National Identity Beyond Ethno-Religious Fault Lines”.Utomi said: “Sadly, you will find much of today&
  
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• Liverpool humbled again by Leeds fightback for 3-3 draw

  06-12-2025 21:07 via vanguardngr.com
  Liverpool suffered another embarrassing capitulation to ramp up the pressure on manager Arne Slot as Leeds twice hit back to salvage a thrilling 3-3 draw on Saturday.The Reds led 2-0 and 3-2 thanks to Hugo Ekitike’s quickfire double and Dominik Szoboszlai’s strike but still failed to see the game out as they failed to win for the eighth time in their last 10 league games.Slot’s faith in Ibrahima Konate will again by questioned after the French centre-back conceded a penalty th
  
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