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2 days ago | 
vanguardngr.com | Emmanuel Okogba
More than 380 figures from the cinema world including “Schindler’s List” actor Ralph Fiennes condemned “genocide” in Gaza in an open letter published Tuesday ahead of the Cannes Festival opening. “We cannot remain silent while genocide is taking place in Gaza,” read the letter initiated by several pro-Palestinian activist groups and published in French newspaper Liberation and US magazine Variety.
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2 days ago | 
vanguardngr.com | Emmanuel Okogba
The universe is poised to die much faster than previously thought, according to new research by Dutch scientists. But there’s no great need to panic. We still have 10 to the power of 78 years before it happens — that’s a one with 78 zeroes. However, that is a major revision from the previous estimate of 10 to the power of 1,100 years, notes the research paper from Radboud University, published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics.
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2 days ago | 
vanguardngr.com | Emmanuel Okogba
There is no arguing the fact that Nigeria’s military, Police and other security forces are no longer what they used to be. The moves by the National Assembly to convene a security summit and calls by some retired Generals for our military’s rearmament are just a few pointers to this.
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2 days ago | 
vanguardngr.com | Emmanuel Okogba
When white smoke curled into the Roman sky and the world learned that the College of Cardinals had elected Robert Francis Cardinal Prevost, Pope Leo XIV—an American—it was met with mixed emotions across Africa. For many, particularly in Nigeria, it stirred a sense of cautious hope layered with curiosity.
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2 days ago | 
vanguardngr.com | Emmanuel Okogba
From last week, continues the counter-motion by Chief Obafemi Awolowo in response to that of Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa on the declaration of a state of emergency in the Western Region following the Action Group crisis there. “I was present there myself and when I left that Chamber, those who were outside the Chamber did not even know that anything was happening inside the Chamber.
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2 days ago | 
vanguardngr.com | Emmanuel Okogba
By CHUKWUEMEKA UWANAKA “You don’t have the cards”- President Trump to President Zelensky, February 2025 Imagine Russia deciding to extend its Sahelian sphere of influence beyond Republic of Niger by claiming some contiguous parts of Nigeria? Disturbing as this hypothetical situation sounds, it is the geopolitical reality of contemporary international relations that countries such as Nigeria have to start planning for, with the new presidential leadership of the United States, US.
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2 days ago | 
vanguardngr.com | Emmanuel Okogba
By KALU OKORONKWOIn a disheartening turn of events, President Bola Tinubu’s recent submission of nominees for the South-South Development Commission, SSDC, to the National Assembly has left Cross River State reeling from what many perceive as a profound act of political betrayal.
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2 days ago | 
vanguardngr.com | Emmanuel Okogba
Nigeria’s economy grew at the fastest rate in a decade last year, the World Bank said Monday, thanks to the reforms introduced by the government, but it warned inflation remains high. “Real GDP increased by 4.6 percent year-on-year in Q4 2024, pushing growth for the full year 2024 to 3.4 percent, the highest since 2014 (excluding the 2021-2022 COVID-19 rebound),” the bank said in a report published in the capital Abuja on Monday.
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2 days ago | 
vanguardngr.com | Emmanuel Okogba
Carlo Ancelotti will leave Real Madrid for a second time as the most decorated manager in Champions League history after a hugely successful second spell, primed to take his talents to the international game with Brazil. The Italian’s time at the very top of club football appeared to be over before he left Everton to return to the Santiago Bernabeu in 2021. But Ancelotti proved he had lost none of his old magic, lifting the European Cup for the fourth and fifth times as a coach in 2022 and 2024.
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2 days ago | 
vanguardngr.com | Emmanuel Okogba
Opening statements started Monday in the federal sex trafficking trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs, the music mogul accused of committing years of chilling abuse. Combs, 55, has pleaded not guilty on all counts, which include a racketeering charge alleging the hip-hop pioneer led a sex crime ring that included drug-fueled sex parties by use of force, threats and violence. “He used his companies to manipulate women, forcing them with male escorts to have sex while he watched.
