A stakeholder in the health sector, Adedayo Adelanwa, has lamented the surge of eye challenges, saying about 23 million people suffer from eye problems in Nigeria. Adelanwa made the outcry on Sunday, during a two-day free medical outreach and glaucoma surgery held for residents of Abeokuta. He insisted that if 25 percent of the Nigerian population suffers one eye defects …

Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi, has described as ‘frightening’ the recent killings in Borno, Edo, Sokoto and Katsina states. Obi expressed the feeling in a tweet on his official X handle on Sunday. He lamented that the incidents were “stark evidence that Nigeria is in the grip of a full-blown security …

A bloody weekend across Nigeria left at least 102 people dead, including security personnel and suspected bandits, in a series of violent incidents reported in Borno, Sokoto, Edo and Katsina states. In Katsina State, seven people were killed when armed bandits raided Magajin Wando village between 11 p.m. and midnight on Friday. According to the Katsina State Ministry of Internal …

Inside INEC’s Secret Plot To Manipulate 2027 Elections For Tinubu, APC; Abdulrazak Yusuf Tipped To Replace Yakubu – SaharaReporters The manipulation of IReV, according to the insider, is already in motion. It was reportedly deployed in recent by-elections and is set to be tested again in the upcoming governorship elections in Anambra, Osun, and Ekiti states. SaharaReporters can exclusively reveal …

The long-running debate over whether former President Goodluck Jonathan can legally return to the presidential race took a dramatic turn last week after a Federal High Court in Yenagoa ruled that he cannot be barred from contesting on the basis of Section 137(3) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended). Justice Isa H. Dashen, who delivered judgment on May 27, 2022, …

The Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led federal government has decided to engaged with the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) and the Dangote Refinery over their face-off. The federal government is appealing to NUPENG to suspend its planned nationwide strike scheduled to begin on Monday, September 8, 2025. Confirming the government’s decision to resolve the dispute on Sunday, the …

Human rights activist and former presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, has accused the government of President Bola Tinubu of plotting to silence him. Speaking when he appeared on Hard Copy, a Channels Television programme, Sowore said the current administration has adopted the same strategy used by ex-President Muhammadu Buhari. “Well, I think it is just a recycling of the same strategy …

Barring any corrective intervention from the National Council of State (NCoS), the international community, civil society organisations and potential election observers (both local and foreign), there are warning signals that the 2027 general elections may turn out to be the worst elections ever conducted in the history of Nigeria, based on verified pieces of information made available to Sunday Vanguard …

As the November 16, 2025 National Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) approaches, the governors elected on the party’s platform and the loyalists of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr. Nyesom Wike are in fresh battle of wits for the positions of the National Chairman and the National Secretary of the main opposition party, THISDAY’s investigation …

The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and federal government workers have demanded an urgent review of the national minimum wage, insisting that the current N70,000 is no longer sustainable. They made the demand following the bold steps taken by several states across the country to increase the minimum wage of their workers above the N70,000 benchmark, in response to the prevailing …

The Petroleum Products Retail Outlet Owners Association of Nigeria and the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria have asked President Bola Tinubu and other stakeholders to intervene in the dispute between the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers and the Dangote Refinery. But the Nigeria Labour Congress, while also calling for urgent intervention in the stand-off, accused the …

Following a closed-door meeting between President Bola Tinubu and the Sole Administrator of Rivers State, Vice Admiral Ibok Ibas, retd, in the Presidential Villa last Wednesday, there are strong indications that suspended Governor Siminalayi Fubara, his deputy, Prof Ngozi Odu, and the 32-member House of Assembly may return on September 18, 2025. Sunday Vanguard gathered that at the meeting, Ibas …

Activist and publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, has revealed that social media platform X (formerly Twitter) has declined a request by the Department of State Services (DSS) to delete one of his posts criticising President Bola Tinubu. In a post on Sunday, Sowore said X officially notified him of the request from the DSS. His words: “This morning, X …

The Nigerian government has formally given X.com 24 hours to pull down an anti-President Bola Tinubu tweet posted by a controversial politician and activist, Omoyele Sowore, disparaging President Bola Tinubu over a statement he made in Brazil that corruption in Nigeria has ended under his government. Sowore’s tweet in question, reads: “This criminal @officialABAT actually went to Brazil to state …

One of the wives of the former candidate of the Social Democratic Party in the November 16, 2024, Ondo State governorship election, Bamidele Akingboye has been accused of being behind his death. Akingboye reportedly died last Wednesday at his Victoria Garden City (VGC) residence in Lagos at the age of 60. “With deep sorrow and a heavy heart, we announce …