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• We’ll defend our country against any external aggression, Fani-Kayode tells Trump

  02-11-2025 18:20 via vanguardngr.com
  Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has reacted to recent remarks by former United States President Donald Trump, who allegedly threatened Nigeria with possible military action, declaring that the country would defend its sovereignty against any external aggression.In a series of posts on X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday, Fani-Kayode faulted Trump’s comments, describing them as provocative and unjustified. He urged Nigerian leaders and citizens to treat the issue with seriousness
  
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• Nigeria’s rising despite challenges, says Interior minister

  13-12-2025 09:41 via vanguardngr.com
  By Omeiza AjayiABUJA: Minister of Interior, Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has declared that Nigeria is steadily rising despite its challenges, stressing that the nation’s future will be shaped by unity, deepened institutional reforms and a renewed national spirit among citizens.Tunji-Ojo stated this on Friday night while receiving an Award of Excellence in Public Service from Obafemi Awolowo University at the Oduduwa Hall, Ile-Ife, Osun state.He noted that the honour went beyond personal recogni
  
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• Trump, Andrew, Bill Clinton, Gates appear in new Epstein photos

  13-12-2025 09:39 via vanguardngr.com
  Democratic US lawmakers have released two new batches of photos from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate, revealing details of the convicted paedophile’s home and ties to the rich and powerful.US President Donald Trump, former prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and former Trump adviser Steve Bannon are among the high-profile figures featured in the photos. The images, many of which have been seen before, do not imply wrongdoing.The nearly 100 photos released by members of the House Oversight Co
  
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• ‘One of the shining stars of my cabinet’ – Tinubu celebrates Wike on his 58th Birthday

  13-12-2025 09:39 via vanguardngr.com
  By Idowu BankolePresident Bola Ahmed Tinubu has congratulated the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Chief Nyesom Wike, on his birthday, December 13, praising his performance in office and contributions to national development.In a statement issued on Friday and signed by the President’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, President Tinubu joined family, friends and associates in celebrating the former Rivers State governor, thanking God for a life mar
  
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• NDA denies inaction on missing cadet, says parents notified 

  13-12-2025 09:31 via vanguardngr.com
  The Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), has denied inaction on a missing Cadet, Stephen Gani, insisting that his parents were duly notified.The academy’s Public Relations Officer, Maj. Reuben Kovangiya, made the clarification in a statement issued on Friday in Kaduna.
  Kovangiya said, “The attention of the NDA has been drawn to reports circulating across various online media platforms as regards the missing of Cadet Stephen Gani.”He said the report alleged that the cadet mysterious
  
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• State of Affairs: ‘If you give me $1bn to join politics, I won’t ‘ – Oyedepo

  13-12-2025 09:26 via vanguardngr.com
  ***I warned the church of trouble in 2015By Olayinka AjayiThe Presiding Bishop of the Living Faith Church Worldwide, LFC, Dr David Olaniyi Oyedepo, has reaffirmed that not even $1 billion can make him join politics.Speaking during the impartation service of the church’s annual convocation, Shiloh 2025, the Bishop urged the church to focus on their area of calling, where they can rule their world and be enlisted in the end-time God’s army.He said, “In 2015, I warned the church
  
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• The toy-boy who turns into love-sick monster!

  13-12-2025 09:08 via vanguardngr.com
  By Bunmi SofolaWhat unbridled passion could make a woman seduce a lad? Isn’t every gangling boy’s fantasy is luring a matured woman to bed for his first and subsequent sexual experiences? Ironically, there are women out there who find unfettered lads attractive.
  Nora was one of them – until she got her fingers burnt. A divorced mother of two lovely boys, by age 36, she’d been divorced but living in her own house with a couple of cars to complement her life-style.
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• Manufacturers of coups and bandits   

  13-12-2025 08:49 via vanguardngr.com
  By Uzor Maxim UzoatuCoups and bandits are all the rage these days. Just the other day, December 7 to be exact, there was the hot news that soldiers of neighbouring Benin Republic Armed Forces led by Lt-Col Pascal Tigri had staged a coup ousting President Patrice Talon.  President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of Nigeria was quick on the take to announce that he had ordered Nigeria troops to foil the Benin coup. There were gasps in some quarters that a country that can abort a coup in another
  
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• Kano bans parallel Hisbah group

  13-12-2025 08:40 via vanguardngr.com
  The Kano State Government has issued an Executive Order banning a group called ‘Independent Hisbah Fisabilillahi,’ describing it as illegal and dangerous.Commissioner for Information and Internal Affairs, Ibrahim Abdullahi-Waiyya, confirmed this on Friday, saying the order was signed by Gov. Abba Kabir-Yusuf.He said the order was issued under the governor’s constitutional powers to maintain public peace and enforce state laws in line with section 5(2).According to him, the Kan
  
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• ‘Fisabilillahi threatening public peace’ – Kano govt bans parallel Hisbah group

  13-12-2025 08:40 via vanguardngr.com
  The Kano State Government has issued an Executive Order banning a group called ‘Independent Hisbah Fisabilillahi,’ describing it as illegal and dangerous.Commissioner for Information and Internal Affairs, Ibrahim Abdullahi-Waiyya, confirmed this on Friday, saying the order was signed by Gov. Abba Kabir-Yusuf.He said the order was issued under the governor’s constitutional powers to maintain public peace and enforce state laws in line with section 5(2).According to him, the Kan
  
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• 50 Cent’s ‘Sean Combs: The Reckoning” deepens Diddy’s legal woes

  13-12-2025 08:18 via vanguardngr.com
  By Enitan Abdultawab50 Cent’s Netflix documentary series ‘Sean Combs: The Reckoning’ has placed Sean “Diddy” Combs under intense scrutiny, revisiting his role in the turbulent 1990s hip hop scene and reigniting public questions about the unsolved murders of Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G.The four part series, executive produced by Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, has sparked heated debate as old controversies res
  
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• Is Anita Joseph really Nollywood ‘Most Natural Curvy Actress?

  13-12-2025 08:15 via vanguardngr.com
  By Benjamin NjokuAcclaimed actress and gospel minister Anita Joseph is known for flaunting her voluptuous figure on social media, often referring to herself as the “Most Natural Curvy girl in Nollywood.”While other well endowed actresses such as Tracy Edwin, Destiny Etiko and Moyo Lawal also command attention, Joseph’s self appointed title has sparked debate among fans.Joseph, who crowned herself with the title last year, continues to draw eyes with her
  
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• Art Maestro, Fidelis Atumah to feature in Uncle Sam Amuka exhibition

  13-12-2025 08:08 via vanguardngr.com
  By Prisca Sam-DuruNigerian art circles are abuzz with anticipation for the forthcoming Uncle Sam Amuka (USA) Exhibition in Lagos, which promises to showcase some of the country’s most brilliant artistic talents.The USA inaugural exhibition titled, “The Beginning”, is organised by Tourist Club International in collaboration with Vanguard Newspapers.The exhibition is scheduled to hold at Alexis Gallery, 282 Akin Olugbade street, off Idowu Martins, Victoria Island, Lago
  
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• ‘Second Thoughts’: A delicate choice between ‘Japa’ and ‘Japada’

  13-12-2025 08:03 via vanguardngr.com
  By Prisca Sam-Duru“Abroad does not mean you’ve made it, but you’ve made it impossible to cry in public.” That’s deep! And that line taken from a thrilling one-man play titled, “Second Thoughts,” best describes the situation most Nigerians who ‘japa-ed’ (migrated) abroad are facing.Read Also: Igbo Origin: Enugu Sports Club lecture refutes Igbo-Jewish ancestry claimBut the producer of “Second Thoughts,” Emmanuel Okocha is cert
  
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• Igbo Origin: Enugu Sports Club lecture refutes Igbo-Jewish ancestry claim

  13-12-2025 07:43 via vanguardngr.com
  By Dennis Agbo  The Elite Enugu Sports Club was tense in the conversation, when its Chess Conclave section held a maiden annual lecture where it probed the long held view that the Igbo migrated from the Jewish community.Read Also: To fathers everywhere. . ., by Stephanie ShaakaaTo dissect the discourse, the club invited an emeritus professor of Anthropology in the University of Nigeria, Nsukka; Peter-Jazzy Ezeh, who cited many books, starting from the 18th century to the pre
  
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• To fathers everywhere. . ., by Stephanie Shaakaa

  13-12-2025 07:26 via vanguardngr.com
  For many adults, the answer is tangled. Some feel resentment. Some feel nothing. Some feel love, but from a distance. For so many, a father is remembered more as authority than affection. Present in structure, absent in spirit.Read Also: Man like Senator Natasha, by Stephanie ShaakaaFathers are often the commanders of the home. Respected, needed, yet emotionally out of reach. Many of these men are not lonely today because they were bad. They are lonely because they lived at the center
  
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• Man like Senator Natasha, by Stephanie Shaakaa

  13-12-2025 07:20 via vanguardngr.com
  Nigeria has a problem we all live with without even noticing. The people we elect to speak for us vanish the moment they take office. They collect salaries. They sign papers. They nod at the wrong things. Then they disappear into Abuja like smoke. Ask the average Nigerian who their Senator is and watch the face. First confusion. Then the long pause. Then that small embarrassed laugh we use to cover the reality that we have been abandoned for years. Representation in this country has b
  
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• How new thinking can rescue Nigeria from decline — Pat Utomi

  13-12-2025 07:15 via vanguardngr.com
  By Matilda IkediobiProfessor of Political Economy, Pat Utomi, in this monitored interview, gave reasons Nigeria has failed to reach its potential and proffered solutions to the country’s problems. Excerpts:What’s your assessment of where we are? What’s your view about where we seem to be headed? I think the Tony Uranta Memorial lecture was an appropriate place to get into this, because in ways, Tony Uranta, who I walked a path with, represented an era of optimism abo
  
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• 16 years after Christmas Day suicide bombing attemp, Nigerian official tells the story

  13-12-2025 07:10 via vanguardngr.com
  By Dickson OmobolaOn December 25, 2009, a Nigerian terrorist, Umar Abdulmutallab, better known as the Christmas Bomber, attempted to detonate explosives hidden in his underwear while on board Northwest Airlines Flight 253 en route to Detroit.Read Also: Activists on quelled Benin coup: Democracy only matters to African leaders when military threatens it, not when their actions are killing itAbdulmutallab, who held a Nigerian passport and a valid US tourist visa, travelled from Ghana to
  
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• Activists on quelled Benin coup: Democracy only matters to African leaders when military threatens it, not when their actions are killing it

  13-12-2025 06:40 via vanguardngr.com
  By Dayo Johnson, Regional Editor, South WestThe military struck in Nigeria’s West African neighbour, Benin, last Sunday with the coupists seizing the state television station in Cotonou and announcing the overthrow of President Patrice Talon’s administration. The coup was however thwarted as President Bola Tinubu deployed fighter jets and troops to quell the attempted coup. The Presidency described Tinubu’s intervention as “swift” and a demonstration
  
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• Biafra: Stop the noise! By Emeka Obasi

  13-12-2025 02:49 via vanguardngr.com
  People sacrificed their lives fighting for you, many wasted their active years in the bush only to be abandoned at the end of the  Civil War. The effects are here now, MASSOB, IPOB, power drunk 419ers, there will be no peace until we remember those who died defending Ndigbo.My message is clear. Until the Igbo, as a nation, set aside a day to mourn and eulogise thousands who were extinguished during the Pogrom and the millions that were killed in the Biafra Genocide, it will be fr
  
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• Tinubu and Talon: Traitorous Tailors of Democracy? By Ugoji Egbujo

  13-12-2025 02:47 via vanguardngr.com
  Before soldiers seized Cotonou’s state television station to declare Patrice Talon deposed, Benin’s democracy had already become a sham. Talon entered office in 2016 bearing the hopes of the country’s poor. Benin’s democracy, then 25 years old, was stable but stagnant, yielding little prosperity. Talon pledged to a single term—unshackled from re-election pressures and the politics of longevity—to fight corruption and set Benin on a path to prosperit
  
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• Omokri’s Mockery of Akpabio’s Senate, by Emmanuel Aziken

  13-12-2025 02:46 via vanguardngr.com
  For a Senate that has not only in herited but arguably worsened its predecessor’s reputation as a rubber stamp, the scene that played out during the screening of President Bola Tinubu’s ambassadorial nominees was bound to be bewildering. Yet, even by Nigeria’s increasingly elastic standards of legislative conduct, what unfolded in Senate Committee Room 211 last Thursday was astonishing. Already dogged by public perception as an assembly that approves executive reques
  
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• Beyond State Police, by Muyiwa Adetiba

  13-12-2025 02:45 via vanguardngr.com
  A couple of weeks ago, three people very close to me had their homes and therefore, privacy violated. The three of them live off Admiralty Way which is about the busiest street in highbrow Lekki Phase One. They live in gated areas. They live in gated homes. In addition, they have private securities.
  Yet, as easy as you like, they had their security breached and their cars vandalized. The main thing taken from each car was the brainbox. The cars, as you can imagine, are high end cars.
  
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• Daniel Etim Effiong opens up on ‘The Herd’ controversy

  13-12-2025 02:36 via vanguardngr.com
  …Says, ‘I didn’t anticipate the backlash that greeted the streaming of the movie on Netflix’By Benjamin NjokuNollywood actor producer Daniel Etim Effiong has opened up about the controversy that followed the streaming of his movie “The Herd” on Netflix.In an interview, Effiong explained that he set out to tell an “impactful, heartfelt story” and did not expect the negative reaction that greeted the film’s teaser, which shows her
  
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• AFCON 2025 Super Eagles squad: More questions than answers 

  13-12-2025 01:50 via vanguardngr.com
  By Jacob Ajom with Agency reports Head coach of the Super Eagles, Eric Chelle on Thursday, released his final squad for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations beginning in Morocco December 21. Naturally, the announcement has generated a lot of reactions. First-choice goalkeeper Stanley Nwabali’s fitness was a subject of debate as reports from South Africa suggested that the Chippa United goalkeeper was suffering from an ankle and hand injury and was feared not available for selection be
  
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• Lagos First Lady vows stronger support systems for elderly

  13-12-2025 01:34 via vanguardngr.com
  By Henry ObettaFirst Lady of Lagos State, Dr Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, has said the state government is committed to strengthening structures that ensure access to care, protection and support for senior citizens.Sanwo-Olu stated that through various health, social welfare and community-based programmes, the state remains committed to initiatives that enhance the quality of life of the elderly.She spoke at an event organised by non-governmental organisation, Orunsii Welcare Foundation, in collaboratio
  
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• Ihemba Kelechi Eke unveils a bumper holiday package for his hometown

  13-12-2025 01:29 via vanguardngr.com
  By Benjamin NjokuUS based philanthropist and founder of the African Film Festival in Dallas, Ichie Kelechi Eke (also known as Ichie Ihemba), has announced a series of events aimed at making this Christmas season memorable for his native community.The first event that will open the floodgates is the 3rd edition of Ihemba Women Football League, which kicks off on December 25. Participating teams in the tournament are drawn from Owerri and Ngor Okpala areas of Imo State. Eke said
  
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• Enugu Commissioner Ezeh named among Africa’s Most Influential Leaders in 2025 Who’sWho Africa

  13-12-2025 01:26 via vanguardngr.com
  Nigeria’s Dr Prince Lawrence Ozoemena Ezeh has been named among Africa’s most influential public figures in the newly released 2025 Who’sWho Africa Bibliography Compendium, an annual roll call of leaders whose work is shaping the continent’s future.Ezeh, the Enugu State Commissioner for Innovation, Science and Technology, was recognised for his contributions to engineering, industrial entrepreneurship and innovation leadership.The compendium, widely regarded as one of Af
  
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• Jonathan, Dickson, NGF mourn Bayelsa deputy Gov, Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo

  13-12-2025 00:58 via vanguardngr.com
  By Ikechukwu Eze; Henry Umoru & Samuel OyadonghaFormer President Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has expressed deep shock over the death of the Deputy Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo who passed on yesterday after collapsing in his office in Yenagoa. Dr. Jonathan described Senator Ewhrudjakpo as a devoted public servant, a true patriot, and a loyal steward of Bayelsa State and Nigeria.Similarly, the former governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Seriake Dickson a well as the N
  
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