Wednesday, 08 October, 2025

Category: News


Following a closed-door meeting between former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the 2023 Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi, on Sunday, Vanguard has learned that the two leaders discussed the state of the nation and how to rescue the country, Read more…


The Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, has plunged into mourning following the death of four of its senior staff members in the fire incident that gutted Afriland Towers on Broad Street, Lagos, on Tuesday. The deceased staff were trapped while Read more…


The National Examination Council (NECO) has released the results of 2025 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) with 60.26 percent of candidates recording five credits and above in English and Mathematics. Releasing the result at the Council’s headquarters in Minna, Niger Read more…


President Bola Tinubu has officially ended the six-month state of emergency in Rivers, effective midnight on September 17, 2025, signalling an immediate return to democratic governance in the troubled oil-rich state.  The President announced personally that the Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, Read more…


A “rollback” in peace efforts is being driven by “rabid militarists” in Europe, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov has said The US under President Donald Trump is taking a common-sense approach to resolving the Ukraine conflict, Deputy Foreign Minister Read more…


With six and a half months to the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) March 31, 2026 recapitalisation deadline, no fewer than 12 banks have successfully shored up their balance sheets, clearing the capital thresholds that will determine their place in Read more…


Private depots in Lagos and environs were deserted yesterday, as the Dangote Petroleum Refinery rolls out its direct petrol supplies. Checks by Vanguard indicated that private depots were deserted because the operators expected to benefit from the direct supplies. A Read more…


The Anambra State Deputy Governorship Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Uche Ekwunife, has tendered an apology to Governor Chukwuma Charles Soludo and his wife, Nonye, over a publication linking the First Lady to Chief Chris Uba. In Read more…


JOURNALIST and founder of Media Room Hub, Azuka Ogujiuba, has given a detailed account of how two officers of the Nigerian Police Force orchestrated her detention for three days over the publication of a court injunction on her Instagram page. Read more…


The All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused former vice president, Atiku Abubakar of plundering, looting the treasury, enthroning corruption and profligacy as state policy while in office and instigating anarchy against the incumbent government. The ruling party, while frowning at the Read more…


LEADERSHIP gathered that the troops of 34 Artillery Brigade, in a joint operation with sister services and other security agencies, arrested a notorious IPOB/ESN kingpin, Ifeanyi Eze Okorienta a.k.a. Gentle de Yahoo at his hideout in Aku-Ihube, Okigwe local government Read more…


Oxfam in Nigeria and the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) held a high-level meeting with President of the ECOWAS Commission, Omar Touray, to strengthen collaboration on peace, security, climate justice, and regional integration across West Africa. The discussions focused on Read more…