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SINCE the United Nations earmarked March 8, every year, as International Women’s Day in 1977, the idea has come a long way since its first observance on March 19, 1911, by over a million people...

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/03/a-day-to-celebrate-our-women/

AGENCY Banking – using Point of Sale, PoS, terminals introduced by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to facilitate the cashless economy policy – has become a source of violent death for our y...

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/03/managing-insecurity-associated-with-agency-banking/

ON February 1, 2021 the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Niyi Adebayo, announced with flourish the Federal Government’s approval of the National Quality Policy, NQP, which is primari...

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/03/wholl-implement-the-national-quality-policy/

THE Muhammadu Buhari administration is set to dispose of no less than 36 federal properties. The main purpose of this is to raise funds between January and November this year to finance the N13.5...

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/03/as-fg-moves-to-sell-off-select-assets/

IT is suicidal to pretend about it: Nigeria is on fire over insecurity. Few years ago, we published an editorial warning Nigerians, especially those who live in the South, that death was approach...

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/03/insecurity-time-is-running-out-for-the-nation/

ON January 19, 2021, around 8.15 am on the Presidential Boulevard Road near Guarantee Trust Bank opposite Lawson Group School, Kuto, in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, a tanker transporting petrol ...

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/03/preventing-avoidable-death-in-nigeria-2/

Nigeria’s health care system has long been held down with challenges such as under-funding, manpower shortages, inadequate facilities and poor equipment, among others. In the public healthcare ...

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/03/rising-cost-of-healthcare-in-nigeria-amid-covid-19/

Last week, President Muhammadu Buhari came out with a clear and resounding message on the current debate as to what best to do to end the menace of insecurity across the country by armed hoodlums...

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/03/buharis-disavowal-of-amnesty-for-terrorists/

ON February 27, 2020, the Federal Ministry of Health confirmed the first coronavirus, COVID-19, case in Nigeria. It originated in Wuhan, China but came into Nigeria through an Italian national fr...

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/03/one-year-of-covid-19-pandemic/

THE recent pledges of COVID-19 vaccines from a number of rich Western countries towards assisting poorer countries to acquire enough doses of the vaccines to roll out their vaccination campaigns ...

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/03/bridging-the-covid-19-vaccine-divide/

Since Second Republic Governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande, LKJ, answered the call of mortals, it has been tributes galore. This is not surprising given his life of exemplary lea...

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/03/lateef-jakandes-indelible-footprints/

THE avalanche of global outrage, threat of sanctions and condemnations that have trailed the Myanmar military coup are clear signals to military adventurists all over the world who seek to subver...

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/03/the-era-of-rule-by-force-of-arms-is-over/

WITH at least 14 vaccines now in play, it is not surprising that powerful nations such as the USA, EU, UK, Russia, China and others have rushed to stockpile them for the benefit of their citizens...

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/03/need-to-avoid-vaccine-nationalism/

COME March 1, 2021, Nigeria’s Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala will assume office as Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, WTO, to pilot world trade till August 31, 2025. She will not only b...

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/02/okonjo-iwealas-challenges-as-wto-dg/

IT has long been public knowledge that most occupants of political offices in Nigeria send their children to schools abroad due to the virtual collapse of quality education in Nigeria. A non-resi...

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/02/funding-nigerians-education-abroad-with-illicit-funds/

IN a sense, and as in the case of petrol, countries that do not have as much sunshine as Africa are already ‘selling sunshine’ to Nigeria through photovoltaic solar panels and other renewable...

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/02/nigerias-dream-of-renewable-energy-revolution-2/

THE admission, at last, by the Northern States Governors’ Forum that open grazing has become “unsustainable” is long overdue but welcome. The question now is whether these governors who man...

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/02/herders-crisis-northern-governors-must-act/

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari on September 24, 2019 in New York during the 74th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, expressed Nigeria’s hope to have at least 30 per cent of its total e...

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/02/nigerias-dream-of-renewable-energy-revolution-1/

FELA Anikulapo Kuti conducted his illustrious career with personal integrity. He never played for the sake of money; and best of all, Fela never played at parties. He was exclusively the big stag...

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/02/inducting-fela-in-rock-roll-hall-of-fame-2/

NEARLY 24 years after the exit of the Afrobeat legend and progenitor, Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Kuti (1938-1997), best known as Fela Anikulapo Kuti musically, the world has continued to acknowled...

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/02/inducting-fela-in-rock-roll-hall-of-fame/