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Vanguard Vanguard summit: Nigeria risks losing gains of Mental Health Act, experts warn

By Chioma Obinna As Vanguard Newspapers holds its fourth Mental Health Summit in Lagos, stakeholders have warned that Nigeria’s Me...

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Vanguard Electricity subsidy falls 35% to N679bn in H1’26

By Yinka Kolawole The Federal Government’s electricity subsidy bill fell 35.27 percent to N679.58 billion in the first half of 202...

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Vanguard Housing crisis: Workers resort to their pension savings for home ownership

•Number of withdrawers rises 284% to 28,437 •Amount withdrawn rises 228% to N92.7bn •Experts make case for Nigerians not on CPS •D...

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Vanguard Joint Army, DSS, Amotekun operation kills ISWAP leader planning terrorist attacks

An intelligence-led operation by a combined team of troops of the Nigerian Army, Department of Department of State Services (DSS)...

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Vanguard Dollar to Naira exchange rate today, October 5, 2026

The Nigerian Naira maintained a stable posture across both the official Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market (NFEM) and the parallel m...

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Vanguard Kidnappers torture 20 corps members, reduce ransom to N100m — Relatives

AS the deadline for payment expires within hours, the 20 prospective National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, members abducted in Imo S...

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Vanguard Atiku is right, subsidy removal needs revisiting – 2

By Dele Sobowale Some called it lunacy; others were more polite in their condemnation of the idea of government reversing itself....

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Vanguard Elumelu acquires additional £53.2m shares in Seplat

Tony Elumelu, Chairman of Heirs Holdings, has acquired an additional six million shares in Seplat Energy Plc for £53.2 million. Ac...

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Farmers Weekly Don’t Let the Rain Fool You El Niño Still Looms

South Africa is heading into the 2026–27 summer crop season on a much better footing than in previous difficult drought years, wit...

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ScienceDaily Health The “glue” holding your cells together has a surprising second job

Scientists have discovered that E-cadherin, a protein best known as the “glue” holding cells and tissues together, has a surprisin...

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ScienceDaily Health Easing constipation: A 20-minute walk can get your gut moving almost immediately

Researchers found that just 20 minutes of comfortable walking can rapidly stimulate the gut. Within one to two minutes after exerc...

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Premium Times National Sports Festival: Mbah inspects facilities, reassures of world-class games

Mbah also assured of the readiness of all the facilities ahead of the Games slated for 27th November to 11th December 2026. The po...

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Premium Times Police rescue kidnap victim, arrest suspected cultists

The police said the suspect wanted to become the leader of the “Aro Bagger” confraternity and believed killing his rival member wo...

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Vanguard Stockouts, provider bias deny women access to contraceptives – Experts

Jagun, Azege, Shokunbi urge journalists to expose barriers By Sola Ogundipe Nigeria’s contraceptive shelves may be stocked, but ma...

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Vanguard Health risks uncovered as RCCG screens 600 Ogun residents

By Blessing Eloghene More than 600 residents of Onihale in Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State have received free medical scre...

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Vanguard IPO: University students hail Dangote Foundation’s free share initiative

…Foundation engages campus journalists on IPO By Udeme Akpan University students across Nigeria have welcomed the Aliko Dangote Fo...

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Vanguard Ronaldo can return to Portugal team if he wants – Coach Jesus

Portugal superstar Cristiano Ronaldo can return to the squad if he wishes, despite walking out on his team-mates, said national te...

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Vanguard 2027: Tinubu will harvest more votes in Southeast – Umahi

Minister of Works Dave Umahi has predicted that the All Progressives Congress (APC) will make significant gains in the South-East...

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Vanguard Tinubu visits Oba of Lagos, receives prayers, counsels

President Bola Tinubu on Sunday paid a courtesy visit to the Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu, at Iga Idunganran Palace, Lagos Isla...

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TechCrunch Google froze its open source bug bounty program due to a ‘significant rise’ in AI submissions

AI slop seems to be overwhelming bug bounty programs.

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TechCrunch Can ‘super intelligence’ and a non-binding safety pact solve AI’s image problem?

On Equity, we discussed the Trump administration's attempts to rebrand AI.

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Premium Times Vice Chancellor speaks on Anthony Kila’s fake professorship

More than 24 hours after PREMIUM TIMES raised questions over Anthony Kila’s professorship, Michael and Cecilia Ibru University has...

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Premium Times One dead, another injured as tanker inferno burns shops, vehicles in Cross River

The latest incident adds to Cross River’s recent fire emergencies, with the state fire service reporting 17 incidents between Janu...

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Premium Times Temi Nkem wins Big Brother Naija Season 11

After 10 weeks of competition, Temi Nkem polled 25.87 per cent of the total votes from viewers in Nigeria and across Africa. The p...

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