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• Weak sentiment wipes N544bn off equity market value

  19-08-2026 03:56 via punchng.com
  
  Weak sentiment leads to a significant equity market downturn on the Nigerian Exchange, wiping N544bn off market value. Discover key indicators and stock moRead More: https://punchng.com/weak-sentiment-wipes-n544bn-off-equity-market-value/
  
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• Oil Resumption: Rumbles in the pipelines as doubt pervades Ogoni peace dialogue

  22-08-2026 07:49 via vanguardngr.com
  
  • KAGOTE, MOSOP at daggers drawn; FG wields legal stick against activistBy Daniel Abia, Port-HarcourtThere is an atmosphere of frustration and distrust over the already established peace process between the Ogoni people and the federal government. The process is aimed at ensuring a diplomatic resumption of oil exploration in Ogoni land after about 32 years.A globally recognized environmental activist, Ken Saro Wiwa and other prominent Ogoni activists and chiefs paid the supreme price in th
  
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• Dance, laughter as Vanguard’s ex-staff return home to launch book, dine, wine with the family

  22-08-2026 07:41 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Benjamin NjokuLast Wednesday was a day of overflowing joy for the patriarch of Vanguard Family, Sam Amuka-Pemu, widely referred and revered as Uncle Sam. The journalists he had mentored, nurtured and sent out into the world returned to  say ‘Thank you.’ The air was heavy with memories, laughter and gratitude. It was a reunion that restored roots, revived bonds and reminded everyone of where it all began.Amid tributes and applause, Uncle Sam stood in quiet awe, honoured not j
  
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• Nyesom Wike, Osun elections and sanctity of the ballots

  22-08-2026 07:33 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Douglas Baye-OsagieThe choice of words by the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike after the Osun election is disturbing. It reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of the place of power in a democracy.  Read Also: Governor Adeleke’s victory: Nigerians must replicate Osun experience in 2027 — Lawyers, activistsWike in a press conference said that if President Tinubu had wanted to win Osun “at all costs”, he would have been involved and that Adeleke’s victory show
  
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• Football in Nigeria and the Teslim Balogun’s enduring legacies (1927-1972)

  22-08-2026 07:30 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Hon. Femi KehindeHarold Macmillian, the British Prime Minister, and his wife visited Nigeria in 1960 on the threshold of it’s Independence, to bid Nigeria farewell from the Union Jack. After the national reception and discussions in Lagos, he visited Ibadan, the seat of the Western Region. At the state dinner held in his honour at the Lafia Hotel, Apata, Ibadan, the Honourable Premier, Chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola, rose after dinner to propose a toast to the Prime Minister an
  
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• EPL: Liverpool, Man City face new-era test without Salah, Guardiola

  22-08-2026 07:23 via punchng.com
  
  Liverpool and Man City begin new Premier League eras without icons Mohamed Salah and Pep Guardiola. Discover how they’ll cope in the 2026-27 season.Read More: https://punchng.com/epl-liverpool-man-city-face-new-era-test-without-salah-guardiola/
  
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• Return our IDPs to their homes before ranching, Benue leaders tell FG

  22-08-2026 07:08 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Peter Duru, MakurdiThe three major socio-cultural organisations in Benue State have kicked against the Federal Government’s proposed pilot ranching scheme in Benue, state, insisting that the safe return and resettlement of displaced persons in the state must precede any land allocation for ranches.Read Also: Plateau to return IDPs to ancestral homes when safe — MutfwangThe leaders, who are the Presidents General of the Mzough U Tiv (MUT), Ochetoha k’Idoma, OKI and Omi Ny&rs
  
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• ‘Gunmen went from house to house, killing people who were sleeping’ – Survivors of Plateau night of horror

  22-08-2026 07:08 via vanguardngr.com
  
  *Over 24 dead, homes burnt, farms destroyed in, Mangu By Golok Nanmwa, JOSIt was another night of fear in Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State.As residents of Bin-Per community in Kombun District went to sleep on Monday night, August 17, few could have imagined that heavily armed attackers were already closing in on their homes.By about 11:30pm and into the early hours of Tuesday, August 18, the community was plunged into terror as gunmen reportedly opened fire on local vigilantes
  
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• US-Canada tariff talks collapse, raising trade war fears

  22-08-2026 07:00 via punchng.com
  
  Trade negotiations between the US and Canada have collapsed, raising fears of a trade war. New US tariffs on Canadian imports are expected, with Canada thrRead More: https://punchng.com/us-canada-tariff-talks-collapse-raising-trade-war-fears/
  
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• 2027: Obi lists five critical questions that should shape polls, begins campaign in Onitsha

  22-08-2026 06:55 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Vincent Ujumadu & Henry Umoru TWO days after the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, removed the lid, 2027 Presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, Mr Peter Obi, yesterday, commenced campaigns in Onitsha, his homeland in Anambra State, in style.Read Also: Governor Adeleke’s victory: Nigerians must replicate Osun experience in 2027 — Lawyers, activistsObi, who said Nigeria can work and must work, unveiled his agenda in critical sectors
  
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• Six months of Tunji Disu: Will he write his name in gold?

  22-08-2026 06:50 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Austen YongOn August 25, Nigeria’s Police Chief, Inspector-General of Police Olatunji Rilwan Disu, will clock six months in office. Six months is certainly not enough time to measure the full performance of a public servant, particularly the head of an institution as large and complex as the Nigeria Police Force. But in policing, six months is long enough to reveal direction. Indeed, in security, 30 seconds can sometimes make the difference between life and death.When Disu assumed comm
  
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• 2027: PDP, ADC battle for opposition relevance, as US-linked IRI weighs in

  22-08-2026 06:46 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Luminous JannamikeThe significance of the recent engagements between the US linked International Republican Institute, IRI, and two opposition parties lies less in the courtesies exchanged than in the messages each chose to put before the same international election assessment mission.Read Also: Governor Adeleke’s victory: Nigerians must replicate Osun experience in 2027 — Lawyers, activistsAt the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, national headquarters in Abuja, National Chairman Ab
  
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• 2007: PDP, ADC battle for opposition relevance, as US-linked IRI weighs in

  22-08-2026 06:46 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Luminous JannamikeThe significance of the recent engagements between the US linked International Republican Institute, IRI, and two opposition parties lies less in the courtesies exchanged than in the messages each chose to put before the same international election assessment mission.Read Also: Governor Adeleke’s victory: Nigerians must replicate Osun experience in 2027 — Lawyers, activistsAt the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, national headquarters in Abuja, National Chairman Ab
  
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• Governor Adeleke’s victory: Nigerians must replicate Osun experience in 2027 — Lawyers, activists

  22-08-2026 06:28 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Dayo Johnson, Regional Editor, South WestDuring last Saturday’s governorship election in Osun state, a video trended online where some residents of Ward Okerewe 3, in Ife East Local Government Area of the state, on motorcycles, followed a minibus conveying election results to the collation centre. On noticing that the driver of the minibus was making phone calls while driving, the vigilant residents started yelling at him: “Drop that phone, you are carrying our votes and you are
  
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• The Osogbo Test: The election that put INEC on trial, by Stephanie Shaakaa

  22-08-2026 06:11 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Sunday morning, Osogbo had begun to look like a city coming out of a long night.Campaign posters still clung to walls. Election notices hung where they had been pasted. Roads that had carried convoys, party agents and anxious voters were returning to ordinary traffic. Somewhere, tired election officials were heading home after a night that had stretched beyond the closing of the polls.But beneath the celebration and disappointment was a quieter question:Can Nigerians still believe an electio
  
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• How Federal might came to Osun and met the people, by Stephanie Shaakaa

  22-08-2026 06:03 via vanguardngr.com
  
  Osun was supposed to be a governorship election.Then Abuja arrived.The problem is not that Abuja came to Osun. The problem is what Nigerian democracy becomes when Abuja can become the largest political presence in a state election.What followed was not illegal simply because it was powerful. Political parties are entitled to mobilise. Governors are entitled to campaign for their party. National leaders can travel to states and ask voters to support their candidates. There is nothing inherently
  
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• 2027: Makinde challenges Nigerians to judge presidential candidates by records, not rhetoric

  22-08-2026 04:17 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Adeola BadruOyo State Governor and presidential candidate of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM), Seyi Makinde, has challenged Nigerians to subject all presidential contenders in the 2027 election to rigorous scrutiny, insisting that the contest must be decided by proven records, workable ideas and capacity to deliver rather than slogans, personalities or political entertainment.Makinde made the call in his latest newsletter as campaigns for the 2027 presidential and National Assembly election
  
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• The meat we eat and the years we lose: How Nigeria’s abattoirs quietly erode our life expectancy

  22-08-2026 02:47 via vanguardngr.com
  
  By Dr. Gani EnahoroNigeria is a country of paradoxes. We boast one of Africa’s largest populations, a youthful demographic, and a livestock sector that is valued at an estimated ₦30 trillion.
  Yet, we also carry the grim badge of having the lowest life expectancy in the world, a mere 55 years from an average of 73.8, according to the United Nations World Population Prospects (2026). It is a statistic so jarring that it forces us to confront uncomfortable truths about how Nigerians li
  
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• NIMR clarifies claims by ASURI

  22-08-2026 02:34 via vanguardngr.com
  
  Right Of ReplyThe National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) has clarified that some complaints made by the Academic Staff Union of Research Institutions (ASURI) were not ignored or swept under the carpet by NIMR Management but were formally taken up by the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, which subsequently convened meetings involving all the relevant stakeholders.In a statement issued by Sam Eferaro, Media Consultant to the institute, he said despite the fact that many aspects of
  
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• Auctioneers demand probe of MDAs’ asset disposal process

  22-08-2026 02:32 via punchng.com
  
  Nigerian auctioneers accuse MDAs, especially Customs, of violating due process in asset disposal, costing billions. They demand a probe into the asset dispRead More: https://punchng.com/auctioneers-demand-probe-of-mdas-asset-disposal-process/
  
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• Yoruba tennis club marks centenary

  22-08-2026 02:17 via punchng.com
  
  The Yoruba Tennis Club celebrates its 100th anniversary with a four-day cultural week, honouring Yoruba heritage, tradition, and brotherhood.Read More: https://punchng.com/yoruba-tennis-club-marks-centenary/
  
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• Why we left America for Nigeria with five children — US professor, wife

  22-08-2026 02:17 via punchng.com
  
  A US professor and his wife, known as Familia PablAnu, share why they left America for Nigeria with their five children, seeking a sustainable life and culRead More: https://punchng.com/why-we-left-america-for-nigeria-with-five-children-us-professor-wife/
  
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• Nigeria’s 40 auto plants produce below 5% capacity – NADDC

  22-08-2026 02:17 via punchng.com
  
  Nigeria’s 40 auto plants produce less than 5% of their capacity due to weak financing, low patronage, and imports, hindering the Nigeria auto industry’s grRead More: https://punchng.com/nigerias-40-auto-plants-produce-below-5-capacity-naddc/
  
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• My marriage… With Alhaji Suleiman Adegbenro

  22-08-2026 02:17 via punchng.com
  
  Alhaji Sulaiman Adegbenro, veteran broadcaster and musician, shares insights into his 29-year marriage, career journey, and advice for couples.Read More: https://punchng.com/my-marriage-with-alhaji-suleiman-adegbenro/
  
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• My basketball dream ended after visa denial — Ex-BBNaija star Hermes

  22-08-2026 02:17 via punchng.com
  
  Ex-BBNaija star Hermes Iyele opens up on his unfulfilled basketball dream, visa denial, love for LeBron James, and plans to impact Nigerian basketball.Read More: https://punchng.com/my-basketball-dream-ended-after-visa-denial-ex-bbnaija-star-hermes/
  
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• I refused to be ordinary — UNIBEN first-class Law graduate

  22-08-2026 02:17 via punchng.com
  
  Hannah Kintum, a UNIBEN first-class Law graduate, shares her journey to academic excellence, discipline, and sacrifices made to achieve a 4.69 CGPA.Read More: https://punchng.com/i-refused-to-be-ordinary-uniben-first-class-law-graduate/
  
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• Three vigilantes held over man’s death

  22-08-2026 02:00 via punchng.com
  
  Three vigilantes arrested in Bauchi after a 39-year-old man died in their custody. Police investigate the vigilante death and warn against jungle justice.Read More: https://punchng.com/three-vigilantes-held-over-mans-death/
  
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• Subsidy: Your reforms worsening hardship, Atiku lashes at Tinubu

  22-08-2026 02:00 via punchng.com
  
  Atiku Abubakar criticizes President Tinubu’s fuel subsidy removal, stating reforms worsen hardship despite increased revenue. He proposes a targeted producRead More: https://punchng.com/subsidy-your-reforms-worsening-hardship-atiku-lashes-at-tinubu/
  
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• Police rescue 75 abducted Kaduna travellers

  22-08-2026 02:00 via punchng.com
  
  Kaduna State Police Command successfully rescued 75 travellers, including men, women, and children, abducted near Birnin Gwari. Read more on the rescue opeRead More: https://punchng.com/police-rescue-75-abducted-kaduna-travellers/
  
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• Police nab man for cyberbullying

  22-08-2026 02:00 via punchng.com
  
  Adamawa Police arrest 31-year-old for cyberbullying and criminal intimidation of a First-Class Chief. Learn more about this cyberbullying case.Read More: https://punchng.com/police-nab-man-for-cyberbullying/
  
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