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Vanguard REA targets 3.7GW solar manufacturing to close Nigeria’s power gap

By Obas Esiedesa The Rural Electrification Agency (REA) has unveiled plans to establish 3.7 gigawatts (GW) of local solar photovol...

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Vanguard Blue chip stocks add N2.5trn to market capitalisation as rally continues

By Peter Egwuatu The Nigerian stock market maintained a bullish run Week-on-Week, WoW, on renewed demand for large-capitalised sto...

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Vanguard Faleye’s two-year reset: How NSITF is rebuilding workers’ safety net

The mandate of NSITF is straightforward: to ensure that no Nigerian worker is left without support following workplace injury, dis...

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Vanguard Obi-Kwankwaso’s ticket, best chance of winning— Babachir Lawal

Ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday dismissed claims by former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Ba...

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Vanguard Atiku faults Tinubu’s borrowing spree amid N7.98trn oil windfall

Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has faulted President Bola Tinubu’s aggressive domestic borrowing, questioning why the admi...

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Vanguard FG, NLC, employers unveil blueprint to make Nigeria global labour hub

The policy is expected to promote skills mobility by connecting Nigerian workers with legitimate employment opportunities abroad T...

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Vanguard 2027 presidency: Why we adopted Tinubu — Adeleke, Accord Party leaders

OSOGBO — GOVERNOR Ademola Adeleke of Osun State and the national leadership of Accord Party have adopted President Bola Tinubu as...

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Vanguard Court orders reinstatement of 70 pardoned soldiers, directs army to pay salaries from July 2022

The National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN), Lagos Division, has ordered the immediate reinstatement of 70 Nigerian Army perso...

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Vanguard After Bama, Gwoza, Zulum begins plans to resettle Konduga IDPs

Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Umara Zulum, has announced plans to close the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Kond...

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Vanguard Dollar to Naira exchange rate today, July 27, 2026

The Nigerian naira maintained a relatively stable position against the United States dollar across the official Nigerian Foreign E...

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Vanguard Oyedele breaking jinx, restoring confidence in finance ministry — Stakeholders

By Henry Ojelu Stakeholders in Nigeria’s financial and business sectors have commended the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Mi...

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Vanguard Hardship threatens personal pension plan, 92% of accounts dormant

Many traders and artisans also expressed ignorance of the scheme or how it works, even as the National Pension Commission, PenCom,...

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Vanguard Studying and understanding Tompolo, Otuaro and borders

By ENEWARIDIDEKE EKANPOU Borders are the plagues of any society; borders are also the joys of any society. Border-management strat...

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Vanguard FG alleviating poverty with propaganda, by Dele Sobowale

“Economic policies should be assessed based on their impact on the welfare of citizens. Any economic policy that does not improve...

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Vanguard Tinubu’s regional federalism, by Suleiman A. Suleiman

I have described President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s economic policies as Tinubunomics. That is, an economic system based on resource ex...

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Vanguard The Ozymandias complex in the Tinubu administration psyche, by Owei Lakemfa

The transformative Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway is mired in endless controversies. This is the fate of great monuments and, I dar...

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Vanguard Fiscal deception: Oyedele’s debt defence and the government of opaqueness

By MOSHOOD OSHUNFUREWA How can Nigerian public officials defend the indefensible without being ashamed? It requires a careful blen...

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Vanguard CBN’s retreat from industry funding intervention

The Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN’s) withdrawal from direct intervention funding for manufacturers comes at the worst possible ti...

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Vanguard History is a stubborn witness: Before rewriting 2003

By LANRE OGUNDIPE One of the greatest disservices we can do to history is to allow it to become the exclusive property of those wh...

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TechCrunch Are brain waves the next unlock for physical AI?

Forget YouTube videos — frontier physical AI models need multiple camera angles, dense annotation, and, soon, brain wave readings.

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Vanguard Ondo APC: How Aiyedatiwa’s consensus gamble on NASS candidates backfired

Following the outcome, Governor Aiyedatiwa met with the Governor’s Advisory Council, GAC, and other leaders in a closed-door sessi...

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Vanguard Corruption ends once you join APC – Peter Obi

Presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, Mr Peter Obi, has said Nigeria's political parties lack ideology,...

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TechCrunch Making sense of the panic over Chinese AI

On the latest episode of Equity, we discussed why Moonshot AI's Kimi seemed to panic Silicon Valley and Wall Street.

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TechCrunch Can Apple make smart glasses that aren’t a constant privacy threat?

As Apple prepares to launch its first smart glasses, the company may also be wrestling with how to address consumer privacy concer...

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