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• Tinubu tackling insecurity, First Lady assures Qatari envoy

  07-07-2026 15:45 via vanguardngr.com
  
  The First Lady, Sen. Oluremi Tinubu, says President Bola Tinubu and the nation’s security agencies are intensifying efforts to tackle insecurity nationwide.The First Lady said this on Tuesday when she received the ambassador of the State of Qatar to Nigeria, Amb. Yousef Bin Hassan Al-Hail, and the embassy’s consul, Mr Khalifa Al-Khalifa, during a courtesy visit.Mrs Tinubu said Nigeria’s relationship with Qatar should be further strengthened for mutual benefit.She identified te
  
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• NASCO appeals judgment, warns against transactions pending appeal

  10-07-2026 08:51 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Innocent AnabaNASCO Town Limited has appealed the judgment of the Lagos State High Court voiding the Federal Government’s acquisition of about 292 hectares of land and has warned members of the public against engaging in any transaction involving the disputed property until the appeal is determined.
  The company, in a public notice, said the judgment delivered in Suit No. ID/5709LM/2025 was not final, having exercised its constitutional right of appeal. It added that the matter is now b
  
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• Why APC govt wants to hold El-Rufai until after 2027 election – ADC

  10-07-2026 08:43 via vanguardngr.com
  
  The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of deliberately keeping former Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai in custody to weaken the opposition ahead of the 2027 general election.The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, made the allegation during an interview on Channels Television on Thursday, insisting that while the ADC does not oppose the prosecution of anyone with a legitimate case to answer, it believes the hand
  
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• Planet Expands Its Flavour Family with the Introduction of Planet Berries

  10-07-2026 08:41 via vanguardngr.com
  
  Planet has added a new taste to its lineup with the launch of Planet Berries, a bright, berry-flavoured carbonated soft drink now available in a 35cl PET bottle. Planet Berries joins Orange, Cocktail and Apple to bring the range to four flavours, giving consumers a fresh new choice for the moments they share.Guided by its promise of “A World of Tastes,” Planet continues to create beverages built around variety, quality and refreshment. Planet Berries brings a sweet, fruity-flavoured
  
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• NGO trains over 20,000 undergraduates on plastic pollution

  10-07-2026 08:41 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Peter Egwuatu  U-Recycle Initiative Africa, a youth-led Non-Governmental Organisation, NGO, has trained over twenty thousand youths across four federal universities in Nigeria through the second edition of its flagship multi-year initiative for universities, called PlasticWize 2.0.The NGO is advancing environmental education, circular economy solutions, and climate action across Africa.Through PlasticWize 2.0, themed, “Redefining Sustainable Campuses in Africa,” U-
  
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• MSS sets to train 100 young Nigerians in industry related skills

  10-07-2026 08:37 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Peter EgwuatuMobile Screens and Sounds (MSS), one of Nigeria’s leading technical production companies, has concluded an arrangement to train100 young Nigerians in industry related skills, screen and live event production as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR.This is coming following the launch of the MSS Event Tech Academy, a 10-week hybrid training, mentorship, and business programme designed to equip 100 young Nigerians with practical, industry-relevant skills acro
  
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• Diesel prices jump as petrol sustains stable prices

  10-07-2026 08:33 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Udeme Akpan, Energy EditorPump price of Automotive Gas Oil (AGO), otherwise known as diesel, have recorded significant hikes in Lagos, Port Harcourt and Warri.This comes against a relatively stable prices for Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) otherwise known as petrol despite fears of pressure from a renewed hostility in the Middle-east war between US and Iran, the main source of previous pump price increases.In Lagos, African Terminal increased its diesel loading price by N50 per litre to N1,
  
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• S&P Dow Jones places Nigeria on 2027 Frontier Market Watchlist

  10-07-2026 08:30 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Peter Egwuatu  & Yinka KolawoleNigeria’s capital market has received a significant boost after S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI) placed the country on its 2027 Country Classification Watchlist for potential reclassification from a Standalone Market to a Frontier Market, citing improvements in the country’s regulatory environment and market integrity.This is even as Bloomberg ranked Nigerian stock market as the world’ best performing stocks, overtaki
  
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• Dangote Cement pushes Africa’s net-zero cement agenda at global summit

  10-07-2026 08:18 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Yinka KolawoleDangote Cement Plc has reaffirmed its commitment to driving low-carbon cement production, with Group Managing Director, Arvind Pathak, urging African producers to accelerate decarbonisation while expanding capacity to meet the continent’s growing infrastructure demand.Pathak made the call after participating in the Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) CEO Strategic Dialogue in Madrid, Spain, where chief executives from leading global cement companies mapped
  
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• Dollar to Naira exchange rate today, July 10, 2026

  10-07-2026 08:10 via vanguardngr.com
  
  The Nigerian naira traded relatively steadily against the United States dollar on Friday, July 10, 2026, across both the official Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market (NFEM) and the parallel market, as traders continued to monitor foreign exchange liquidity and demand.Data from the Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market (NFEM) showed that the official exchange rate stood at ₦1,375.94 to the US dollar as of July 10, 2026.In the parallel market, also known as the black market, the dollar exchanged at
  
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• MultiChoice now fully integrated into Global Media Group — Canal+ CEO

  10-07-2026 08:07 via vanguardngr.com
  
  MultiChoice has  formally become a full subsidiary of Canal+, marking a new phase in the evolution of one of Africa’s leading pay television operators.In a statement, yesterday, David Mignot, Chief Executive Officer of Canal+ Africa and MultiChoice, said the integration positions MultiChoice within a global media organisation with an extensive international footprint.MultiChoice is now a full subsidiary of a truly international media group operating in 70 countries. The group was fou
  
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• Nigeria solid minerals exports hit N354bn

  10-07-2026 08:01 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Gabriel EwepuNigeria’s solid minerals exports have sustained uptrend rising to N354 billion in 2025, up by 2018 percent from N117.29 billion recorded in 2023. The figure for nine months 2024 was N199.6 billion with full year estimated to be over N266 billion.Similarly, revenue generated for the Federation Account climbed to over N70 billion, representing a 337.5 per cent increase from N16 billion recorded in 2023Disclosing the performance at the maiden Annual Lecture of the Facult
  
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• Attention President Tinubu: Poor football management: a grave national security concern

  10-07-2026 06:40 via vanguardngr.com
  
  *How football eased pain after civl war: The Enugu Rangers exploits*Killing the hopes of Nigerian stars with back-to-back World Cup misses*Football as a unifying force – Odegbami*I just feel the entire board of the NFF need to go – Mikel ObiCONSENSUS: Go, NFF, go; fire them“And for President Tinubu, it will be to his advantage to pay more than a passing interest in the systemic maladministration of football in Nigeria. If Tinubu can not renew the hopes of Nigerians via the Sup
  
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• Family battles to save son allegedly shot during Army raid

  10-07-2026 06:38 via vanguardngr.com
  
  …Claims officers involved promised to process the bills*No evidence to support such – ArmyBy Efe OnodjaeFor over two months, 26-year-old Franklin Ivara has remained on a hospital bed, battling excruciating pain from an alleged gunshot wound that shattered his left leg during a military operation in Itigidi Community, Abi Local Government Area of Cross River State.His family says the ordeal is made more painful not only by the injury itself but also by what they describe as a broken
  
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• FIFA WORLD CUP ANTHEM: How Burna Boy’s global reach, streaming success got a boost

  10-07-2026 06:35 via vanguardngr.com
  
  Davido, Rema and Ayra Starr alsoBy Ayo OnikoyiWhen FIFA announced Nigerian Afrofusion superstar Burna Boy as one of the lead artists for the official 2026 FIFA World Cup song, Dai Dai, alongside Shakira, it marked another defining moment in the Grammy winner’s international career. Beyond the prestige of representing Africa on football’s biggest stage, the collaboration has significantly strengthened Burna Boy’s global visibility, streaming performance and commercial appeal.Re
  
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• Mayhem as NPA, tank farm owners, police, LASTMA lock down Oshodi-Apapa Expressway

  10-07-2026 06:25 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Victor Ahiuma-Young, Olasunkanmi Akoni, Rosemary Iwunze, Providence Ayanfeoluwa, Efe Onodjae, Precious Enaike & Florencemary NwabuezeLAGOS — There was mayhem yesterday on the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway as  negligence and lack of coordination by the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, the Police, the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, and tank farm owners combined to lock down the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway, the major access road to the nation’s busiest seaports.
  
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• PFIPC: Police raided my house 3 times, Adeyemi’s father wails

  10-07-2026 06:18 via vanguardngr.com
  
  ***They jumped  fence into my compound, destroyed security wire
  ***They questioned me about my son’s whereabouts
  ABUJA — Pa Adetunji Adeniyi, father of Adeyemi, the self-styled director-general of the “phantom” Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, PFIPC, has said police operatives raided his home thrice in two days, destroyed parts of his property, confiscated phones, and arrested him while searching for his son.On Monday, security personnel stormed
  
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• Court remands ex-CCT chairman Umar in Kuje prison over corruption charges

  10-07-2026 05:35 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Ikechukwu NnochiriA High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), sitting in Maitama, on Thursday remanded the former Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), Mr. Danladi Umar, in Kuje prison.Justice Peter Kekemeke gave the remand order after the Federal Government arraigned the erstwhile CCT boss on a four-count corruption charge.According to the federal government, its investigations revealed that the defendant abused his official position by conferring an undue advantage on hi
  
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• Yahaya Bello scholarship beneficiary graduates with first-class in UK

  10-07-2026 04:48 via vanguardngr.com
  
  As Nigerians continue to excel in education abroad , the story of 2023 Cambridge IGCSE and Cambridge AS Examination overall best Oluwabukolami Adeyemi surface against with another outstanding performance as she graduated with first-class in Law from the university in Newcastle, United Kingdom. Oluwabukolami in 2023 after her performance in the Cambridge IGCSE and Cambridge AS examination with over 100 participants from over 100 countries of the world gained recognitions and commendati
  
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• With 1,316 MDAs, PFIPC was waiting to happen, by Adekunle Adekoya

  10-07-2026 04:43 via vanguardngr.com
  
  ONE day, one trouble best describes our experience as a nation of peoples in our country called Nigeria. By the way, One Day One Trouble is a popular Nigerian Nollywood comedy-drama movie on the life a man trying to survive doing various jobs while dealing with a cantankerous wife, until a rich woman enters his life and everything went topsy-turvy. I also think that movie title was inspired by a novel written by Anezi Okoro, a professor of skin diseases, titled One Week, One Trouble,
  
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• Tackling light arms proliferation

  10-07-2026 04:14 via vanguardngr.com
  
  The proliferation of small arms and light weapons across Nigeria is not a distant threat; it is an immediate, corrosive reality that bleeds communities dry of security, livelihood and hope. Pistols, assault rifles and improvised firearms have become the currency of violence, multiplying the lethality of banditry, kidnapping, communal clashes and organised crime. Where once disputes might have been settled through dialogue or limited skirmishes, the ready availability of weapons turns every disa
  
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• The United States of MAGAs, dreamers and survivors, by Owei Lakemfa

  10-07-2026 03:20 via vanguardngr.com
  
  The Mount Rushmore National Memorial, South Dakota, is a 1,278-acre or 517-hectare tract seized from the Sioux Nation of India. Into its mountain face are sculpted the 18-metre or 60-foot-high figures of four former United States (US) Presidents. They feature founding President George Washington, main drafter of the July 4, 1776, Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, leader of the Union in the US Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt, credited with developing the coun
  
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• From Newsroom to Government House: My recollections of the Ngige years

  10-07-2026 01:31 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By FRED CHUKWULOBE  As another July 10 comes around, public attention naturally returns to the dramatic abduction of Governor Chris Ngige in 2003, an event that remains one of the darkest episodes in Nigeria’s democratic history. But beyond the crisis itself, the date also brings back deeply personal memories of how I unexpectedly left journalism for public service. During the 2003 governorship campaign in Anambra State, I helped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate
  
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• Nearly 4,000 confirmed dead after Venezuela’s twin earthquakes

  10-07-2026 00:30 via vanguardngr.com
  
  The death toll from the powerful twin tremors that struck Venezuela two weeks ago has risen to at least 3,889, a government report published Thursday stated.Nearly 17,000 people were injured in the 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes on June 24, while almost 18,000 more lost their homes.The death toll rose from 3,811 to 3,889 on Thursday, according to a report from National Assembly chief Jorge Rodriguez posted on Telegram.Interim leader Delcy Rodriguez on Wednesday called for the release of Vene
  
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• Mbappe on target as France beat Morocco, head to World Cup semi-finals

  10-07-2026 00:11 via vanguardngr.com
  
  Kylian Mbappe recovered from having a first-half penalty saved to score a magnificent opener that set France on their way to a 2-0 win over Morocco in their World Cup quarter-final showdown on Thursday.Mbappe’s weak spot-kick was easily saved by Moroccan goalkeeper Yassine Bounou, but he made up for that by producing a brilliant curling finish to make it 1-0 on the hour mark.That was Mbappe’s eighth goal at the tournament, moving him level again with Lionel Messi in the race for the
  
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• Searching phones without warrant unlawful, Police tell personnel

  09-07-2026 23:47 via vanguardngr.com
  
  The Police Command in Plateau has warned its personnel against unlawfully demanding and searching citizens’ mobile phones.Mr Bassey Ewah, the Commissioner of Police in the state, gave the warning while addressing its personnel in Jos.Mr Alfred Alabo, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the command, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday in Jos.“No personnel of this command has the legal authority to search mobile phone of any citizen on the road without a court warrant,
  
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• Catholic Archbishop of Benin dies one month before retirement

  09-07-2026 23:37 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Ozioruva AliuCatholic Archbishop of Benin, Most Rev. Fr. Augustine Obiora Akubeze, has died barely one month before his retirement.He was said to have died in his sleep while on vacation abroad.He would have turned 70 on August 25 which would have also signalled his retirement in line with the Catholic Church’s doctrine.A statement by the Chancellor of the Catholic Archdiocese of Benin City, Very Rev. Fr. Michael Oyanoafoh, titled “Notification of Death” officially announce
  
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• I won’t betray Nigerians’ trust, reforms will make future better – Tinubu

  09-07-2026 23:27 via vanguardngr.com
  
  President Bola Tinubu has reaffirmed his commitment to fulfilling promises made to Nigerians, declaring that he would never betray their trust.Tinubu spoke on Thursday through Senate President Godswill Akpabio during the inauguration of executives of the PBAT Door-to-Door Movement, established to promote the Renewed Hope agenda across the country.He insisted that the ongoing reforms would eventually deliver lasting national prosperity.“My administration remains committed to building a str
  
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• NIS suspends US visa application centres indefinitely

  09-07-2026 23:13 via vanguardngr.com
  
  The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has announced the indefinite suspension of the services of Online Integrated Solution (OIS Services), the operator of Nigeria’s Visa Application Centres in the United States, effective from July 1.This is contained in a statement issued on Thursday in Abuja by the Service Public Relations Officer (SPRO), Deputy Comptroller of Immigration (DCI), Mr Akinsola Akinlabi.Akinlabi said that the development affected prospective travellers and Nigerians residi
  
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• Tinubu meets security chiefs at Aso Villa over insecurity

  09-07-2026 23:03 via vanguardngr.com
  
  President Bola Tinubu on Thursday held a closed-door meeting with security chiefs at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, to review the country’s security situation.The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the meeting focused on developments across various theatres of operation and ongoing efforts to tackle terrorism, banditry, kidnapping and other security threats.Those in attendance included the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu; Minister of Defence, retired Gen. Christopher Musa;
  
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