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Vanguard Trump suggests renaming New Mexico ‘New America’

WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump has suggested renaming the state of New Mexico “New America”, prompting an immediate reject...

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Vanguard Investors gain N3.7trn ahead of Nigeria’s climb to frontier status

By Peter Egwuatu The Nigerian stock market closed last week on a positive note, as investors on the Nigerian Exchange Limited, NGX...

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Vanguard G100, opposition’s late scramble for unity dead on arrival — APC, Keyamo

By Omeiza Ajayi ABUJA—The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has dismissed the just-concluded summit of Nigeria’s opposition p...

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Vanguard FG begins Kara Bridge repair works Tuesday

By Olasunkanmi Akoni LAGOS — THE Federal Government, yesterday, said it intends to carry out repair works on the Kara–Berger Bridg...

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Vanguard Indonesia market fire kills 11, including six children

JAKARTA — At least 11 people, including six children, have died after a fire tore through a market and nearby buildings in Indones...

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Vanguard It’s our turn to produce next Awujale — Fusengbuwa Ruling House

By James Ogunnaike ABEOKUTA —THE Fusengbuwa ruling house of Ijebu-Ode in Ogun State, yesterday, reaffirmed the unity of the family...

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Vanguard Sokoto: Terrorists flee as troops overrun forest hideouts, seize weapons

By Musa Ubandawaki SOKOTO—TERRORISTS operating in parts of Sokoto State have suffered another major setback as troops of the Niger...

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Vanguard Maritime Reforms: Nigeria’s ports record 12.3% rise in cargo throughput

By Emeka Anaeto The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), has reported significant growth in cargo throughput, vessel traffic, container...

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Vanguard 2027: It’s call to duty not anarchy - Umeh defends Peter Obi’s ‘threat’ to election riggers

Obi had recently warned that Nigerians would no longer tolerate attempts to undermine their votes in the 2027 general election, in...

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Vanguard LAWMA sacks sweepers, arrests two over illegal dumping

By Olasunkanmi Akoni LAGOS — The Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) has disengaged some street sweepers, their supervisors a...

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Premium Times Macro to micro… who will tell the president?, By Wole Olaoye

When pounded yam has lumps, you re-pound the yam to achieve the required consistency. Away from all the contrived obfuscations of...

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Premium Times Bribes, bimbos, and babalawos: An undiplomatic memoir, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

Lilian’s story is a three-decade long reel of the kind of interminable coincidence that is not unusual in Nigerian public life. In...

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Premium Times EDITORIAL: Fuel subsidies: Sifting through the federation accounts

Laudable for its attempt at improving the transparency around public finances, the finance ministry’s accounting, sadly, fails to...

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Premium Times Ex-Sierra Leone president returns home from Nigeria after treason case discontinued

Mr Koroma fled to Nigeria in January 2024 after a high court in Sierra Leone allowed him to travel on medical grounds despite bein...

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Premium Times The collapse of a christian generation (1), By Ayo Akerele

“When all that generation had been gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who did not know the Lord nor th...

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Vanguard Oye to Tinubu: Economic growth must tackle hunger, joblessness

THE Chairman of the Alliance for Economic Research and Ethics LTD/GTE, Dele Oye, has said reforms by the Bola Tinubu-led administr...

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Vanguard Businesses suffer as FG’s domestic borrowings surge 90% to N24.7trn

The federal government increased its borrowing from domestic investors by 90.5 per cent, year-on-year (YoY), to N24.7 trillion in...

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Vanguard Brain drain: Nigeria risks losing more eye specialists, OSN warns

By Damilola Samuel Nigeria’s shortage of eye-care specialists could worsen as more ophthalmologists leave the country, with the Op...

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Vanguard Colon cancer: Widow, 38, appeals for N5m to undergo chemotherapy

By Sola Ogundipe At 38, Aminat Bello should be building her fashion business and raising her three sons, instead, she is battling...

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Vanguard 11.2m Nigerians battle diabetes as stakeholders seek safer sugar cuts

… NIFST, ISA call for science-based food reformulation, stronger local research By Chioma Obinna With an estimated 11.2 million Ni...

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Vanguard SFU probes multi-billion-dollar fraud in oil sector

By Emma Nnadozie The Police Special Fraud Unit, SFU, Ikoyi, Lagos, has commenced investigations into alleged massive fraud running...

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Vanguard Nigeria in a new Middle East, by Suleiman A. Suleiman

It was bemusing to read in the news that Nigeria has joined the Red Sea Alliance, an ostensibly “maritime security” coalition cobb...

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Vanguard The Ogbeni years: Reporting a politician to history, by Owei Lakemfa

There are not a few who see Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola, former Minister of Interior and onetime Osun State Governor, as an eni...

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Vanguard The economy is stabilising

By Alliance for Economic Research and Ethics Nigerians should be honest enough to acknowledge progress when progress has been made...

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