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  How Nigeria can rise again, by Anya, Utomi, others

  lagos—NOTABLE scholars were yesterday unanimous in their call for meritocracy to...

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POLITICS

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  Kogi election petitions tribunal relocated to Abuja

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  Wike in Rivers: Warped or wise?

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  How salary crisis is holding Ahmed’s Kwara hostage

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  Lalong’s lingering problems on the Plateau

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  When Fayose visited Aregbesola

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  Royal rumble over Olubadan stool

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SPORTS

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  Port Harcourt HPC key to Nigeria’s sports development — Dalung

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  Eagles may shun future call ups – Oliseh

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  Ikorodu Utd ‘ll be Nigeria’s Leicester City — Edema

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  Emenike undergoes Hammers medical

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  CHAN: Okocha, Ikpeba disagree on Eagles’ ouster

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  NFF debunks Oliseh’s $4,000 meals claim

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RELATIONSHIPS

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  How can I give as much pleasure as I get?

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  My hubby wants oral sex, but…

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  Relationship: He dumped me when his wife found out

• Duped by my own brother!

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  Just because Champagne is now ‘affordable’doesn’t make it common!

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  Love scams: Your body and your money!

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ENTERTAINMENT

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  Omawunmi shares experience working with Angelique Kidjo

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  Harrysong becomes Gala ambassador

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  A-Court reserves judgement in Ibinabo Fiberesima’s suit

• The Voices Nigeria: Our viewers can expect the best TV entertainment —M-net boss

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  Blackface threatens to drag 2face to court for stealing his song

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  10 things you don’t know about Ella Martins

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INSIDE VANGUARD

CRIME GUARD

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  EFCC operative batters, abandons lover over refusal to abort pregnancy

  A teenager, who alleged that she had been abandoned after being impregnated by an operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has...

• Robbers kill 2 policemen in Aba

• 2 ‘lunatics’ caught with rotting human head in Osun

TECHNOLOGY

• IFLUX woos customers with two years warranty on products

  There appears to be an air of excitement at the Alaba market and other markets across the nation as iFLUX has announced that its lighting products sol...

• Gloo.ng ‘express’ customers to get deliveries within two hours

• Tecno lights up Ikeja in new CSR project

HEALTH

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  Poor health system responsible for difficulty in containing Lassa fever – AGBAJE

  As Nigeria continued to battle the recent outbreak of Lassa fever in the country, a renowned Pharmacist, and governorship candidate of the Peoples Dem...

• Global leaders seek $9.4bn to meet family planning needs

• Health: Nigeria should learn from Ondo – Director, Chatham House

EDUCATION

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  500,000 unemployed graduates as teachers: Solving one problem to create more?

  PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari’s quest to provide 500,000 unemployed Nigerian graduates jobs in the teaching profession, has attracted manifold reactions...

• Harnessing waste management value chain can increase revenue

• ‘NUC should be scrapped, varsities’ Governing Councils corrupt’

METRO

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  Dust over murder of secretary for creation of Adada state

  Pandemonium eclipsed the frenzy that heralded the last Yuletide at Okwojo Ngwo community located about eight kilometers on the outskirts of Enugu metr...

• Harvest of deaths in Rivers communities as suspected cultists kill 20

• Amnesty Programme has sharpened our sense of reasoning — Ex-militant leader

FEATURES

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  Heart-rending stories of IDPs sacked from Lagos settlement

  Trauma of losing loved ones, homes and means of livelihood to the Boko Haram insurgents in the North-East of Nigeria, drove them to Lagos and now, the...

• Day lawmakers, residents engaged Ambode on 2016 budget

• The Sultan’s message of peace!

STYLE

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  QueenSylvia Akuchie: transforming her passion for fashion to wealth

  Film and Television Costume Designer, QueenSylvia Akuchie is a budding celebrity stylist, Costume Designer and Style Director. Sylvia, who discovered...

• High Heel shoes: The bitter price of elegance

• Eyola – A New Era of Fashion

SWEET CRUDE

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  Dollar scarcity, high interest rate, stifling the energy sector

  When will Nigerians say goodbye to the ever present power outage that has stunted the economic development of Africa’s biggest economy?

• “Deregulation, cost-reflective tariffs and transportation infrastructure, key imperatives for growth in the power sector”

• Direct fuel supply to marketers will easy up scarcity – IPMAN

BUSINESS

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  Stock market volatility: Operators seek FG intervention fund

• NEPC targets $30 billion earning from non-oil export 

• GSK set to divest from drinks business

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  NNPC/Chevron gas project to improve power

• Current economic climate calls for investment diversification —Oyebola

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  ‘FG should explore CBN’s forex policy to boost manufacturing’

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TRENDING

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  $2.1bn arms deal, others: Why I won’t speak on probes now —Jonathan

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  Obasanjo writes Saraki, Dogara, accuses NASS members of corruption, greed, impunity

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  Bank staff says Metuh ran 5 accounts, as court varies bail conditions

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  Boko Haram: Female bombers kill 14, injure 24 in Chibok

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  Arms deal: Witness confesses to helping Metuh with $2m transfer

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  Enough of this change mantra Okogie tells Buhari

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INTERVIEW

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  We must advise Buhari correctly —Ebun Adegboruwa

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  FALAE FIRES BACK Over $2.1BN ARMS PROBE:‘Nobody can prosecute me for the N100million we collected’

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  “They poisoned me because they could not control me”

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  We’re building entrepreneurial skills with our leading networking website —Alex

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  Why I’m now disenchanted with APC — Onokpasa

• Pro-Biafra agitators will surrender if …

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SPECIAL REPORT

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  Photos: Rivers celebrate Wike’s victory

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  2016 Budget :The cat and mouse game between Senate and Presidency 

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  BOLAJI AKINYEMI @ 74: Intellectualism meets statesmanship

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  Ojukwu led us to clear Nnewi evil forest — Igwe Orizu

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  How Ondo Trauma centre saved our lives after ghastly auto-crash — Couple

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  Again, Boko Haram bares its fangs

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LATEST NEWS

• 6:30 PMOlisa Metuh Resumes Work, Hosts British Lawmakers
• 6:00 PMKogi Election Petitions Tribunal Relocated To Abuja
• 3:32 PMSeize Any Money I Own In Foreign Accounts, Akpabio Challenges FG
• 3:10 PMBreaking: Supreme Court Sacks Stella Oduah, Andy Uba From Senate
• 3:08 PMBiafra: Court Denies Kanu, Others Bail
• 1:18 PMAisha: ‘Supreme Court Must Revive Faith Of Nigerians In Judiciary’
• 1:09 PMBello Orders Immediate Reinstatement Of Sacked LG Chairmen
• 1:04 PMRupert Murdoch’s Son Returns As Sky Boss Four Years After Fall
• 1:00 PMSouth African ‘Idols’ TV Judge Wins Racism Court Case
• 12:59 PMOkowa’s Economic Policies‘ll Benefit Deltans- Odogwu
• 12:55 PMZika Virus: Avoid Travelling To Latin America, Health Minister Warns Pregnant Women
• 12:01 PMOduah Calls For Inland Container Terminal In Onitsha
• 11:26 AMBello Appoints Vanguard Reporter As CPS
• 10:31 AMTerrorism Does Not Respect Religion, Creed, Race — Buhari
• 9:55 AMArmy Apprehends Wanted Boko Haram Kingpin In Sapele
• 8:15 AMN-Delta Militancy Fuelled By Non-Clean Up Of Ogoniland —Buhari
• 8:11 AMN29bn Arms Probe: EFCC Detains Ex-Chief Of Air Staff, Amosu

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• Opening a Window to the Outside World with Computers

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AUDIT REPORT ON NNPC

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EDITORIAL

• Reward For World Golden Eaglets 30 Years After

  President Muhammadu Buhari last Thursday rewarded members of the under seventeen World Golden Eaglets that won the maide...

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• Renewed rumpus in Niger Delta

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CARTOONS

• Regular sex

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MOST READ

2. ALL THOSE WHO DIVERTED MONEY FROM JONATHAN WILL DIE — IBU 
3. MARRY TWO WIVES OR BE JAILED, ERITREA GOVT TELLS MEN 
4. MILITANTS’ FAILED PLOT TO ARM-TWIST BUHARI 
5. HOW FULANI HERDSMEN ABDUCTED, KILLED DELTA MONARCH 
6. BUHARI WON'T ALLOW DALUNG TO DISGRACE HIS GOVT — TORO 
7. WHY WE CAN’T HAND OVER TOMPOLO TO JTF, EFCC —IJAW ELDERS, YOUTHS 

E-EDITIONS

BUHARI VS JONATHAN: BEYOND THE ELECTION, BY CHARLES SOLUDO 

TIP OF A NEW DAWN

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  Can Nigerian teachers still teach?

  Teachers are the first set of people who give a child a sense of self or validation outside of the home. If they are suc...

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CANDID NOTES

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  War against which corruption?

  IN the eyes of the average Nigerian, a full frontal war against corruption is being waged by the current administration...

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TALKING POINT

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  Abdulrahman Dambazau and the arrogance of power

  THE Minister of the Interior, Abdulrahman Danbazau is not new to public office. A three star general at the point of ret...

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SWEET AND SOUR

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  No money!

  I’ve spent the past three months in London. And while I was away, I regularly received phone calls from friends and rela...

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PEOPLE & POLITICS

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  A basket full of crabs

  BEFORE Nigeria became independent, the British colonial masters organised a series of conferences in Ibadan and London t...

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OWEI LAKEMFA

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  Ethiopia can still be saved from bloodshed

  ETHIOPIA is primarily in the news this week, but not because it is hosting the on-going African Union (AU) Heads of Stat...

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