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It was not a moment of reminiscences or retrospection. Not even a recall. Just a normal telephone call. Two women were chatting away, with the one sitting not far away from me not really mindful whether anybody heard or not. It was her business; not another man’s business. But you know, people can really make calls, […]
The post Telecoms: Obasanjo will never see lack, by Okoh Aihe appeared first on Vanguard News.
On the evening of March 16, 2026, Maiduguri was once again forced to confront a familiar horror. Coordinated suicide bombings struck the Monday Market axis, the post office corridor, the entrance to the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, and the Kaleri area, killing and injuring ordinary people who had simply been trying to end the day […]
The post Beyond reaction: Rethinking security in Nigeria, by Dakuku Peterside appeared first on Vanguard News.
“Men make history, but, not just as they please” – Karl Marx, 1818-1883. “Brute force without wisdom falls by its own weight” – Horace, 65-8 BC, VBQ p 63 Trump, Hitler and all terrorists, dead and alive, operate on one principle. “Let them hate, as long as they fear.” They want other people to tremble at […]
The post Trump: Winning the war, losing the world, by Dele Sobowale appeared first on Vanguard News.
The Southwest of Nigeria leads in several aspects of life in the country today because its pioneering leader, Obafemi Awolowo had before independence in 1960, created for his people, a reformative self-awareness governance system. As premier of the then Western Region, Awolowo introduced free education for all in addition to a combined radio and television […]
The post Wanted in Nigeria: Open justice system, by Tonnie Iredia appeared first on Vanguard News.
A long time ago, there was an annual festival in a community in Ekiti. Its purpose was to highlight anti-social behaviour and to serve as some form of accountability mechanism. The young people would dance around the community and visit homes of ‘offenders’, those who had stolen farm produce, cheated their labourers, slept with the […]
The post Ozoro, by Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi appeared first on Vanguard News.
Beloved, last Sunday was Mother’s Day. Indeed mother’s day is marked more than once a year. We are still going to have another one by some Christians. One of the reasons God created man and woman is to bear children among other things. God commanded in Genesis 1 vs. 27 & 28(KJV): So God created man […]
The post Fruitfulness is God’s command, by Funmi Komolade appeared first on Vanguard News.
There is a song ‘between the devil and the deep blue see’ done in the early 1930s. It was commonly recorded by artists such as Cab Calloway and Frank Sinatra. The lyrics have a chorus that goes thus: I don’t want you but I hate to lose you, you have put me in between the […]
The post ‘Bomb shell from hell’, by Patrick Omorodion appeared first on Vanguard News.
We live in a time where falling in love feels less like discovering a person and more like passing a test. From New York to Nairobi, Tokyo to Lagos,
The post The Red Flag Generation: How we learned to leave before we learned to stay, by Stephanie Shaakaa appeared first on Vanguard News.
President Tinubu is the strongest politician ever produced in this country. Give it to him. He is fully in control of power, without forcing anyone to do his bidding. All those screaming that Asiwaju is buying people with money should be ashamed of themselves. All the turn coats are cheaper than Ayilara whores.
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Tinubu has done us proud. The first Nigerian leader to visit the English monarch in decades. That’s no mean feat. He may not have tamed the electricity demon he had bitched bitterly about when he was in the opposition. But it’s inspiring to see him dazzling the paparazzi at Windsor. It’s not easy to find […]
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