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LAGOS State government has unveiled a digital address system of street house numbering to be lunched on July 1, 2025. The initiative, government explained, is  to ensure easy identification, ease of business, create more access to critical services and improve revenue for the state.  Special Adviser to the Governor on e-GIS and Urban Development, Dr. Babatunde Olajide, announced the planned commencement of the initiative at  Alausa Secretariat,  Ikeja. According to Olajide, “the digital addressing system, also known as  Lagos Identifier Programme, LIP, will help in different sectors, including housing, transportation, e-cab hailing service, security, emergency response, taxation and planning. He said the technology had not only made Lagos a smart state, but also would have real life impact on people and the government’s ability to respond to residents’ needs. Olajide said the project also aligned with broader federal ambitions for a digitally integrated Nigeria...

*NWC deputies rally behind Damagum *Anyanwu not your appointee, you can’t order him around, Wike tells Damagum *Without NEC, you can’t remove Anyanwu — Bode George *Tinubu saddened by crisis in PDP, LP — Akpabio lFix your issues, stop blaming Tinubu, Shehu Sani tells PDP, LP, others THE crisis  rocking the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, deepened yesterday, as some members of the National Working Committee, NWC, of the party rejected the decision of the Acting National Chairman, Ambassador Umar Dama-gum, to reinstate embattled National Secretary, Senator Samuel Anyanwu. Recall that Damagum had earlier yesterday, reinstated  Anyanwu, following pressure from the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. This is even as one of the leaders in the crisis that had festered in the party, and Minister of Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, quarrelled with the language used by Dama-gum in directing Anyanwu to resume work at the party’s headquarters. These came on a day ...

*We lost 17 men —Army *Military to deploy 800 special forces to high risk combat zones   NO fewer than 20 soldiers were reportedly killed by bandits, who stormed two military camps in Mariga Local Government Area of Niger State on Tuesday while several others were injured. However, unspecified number of the bandits were gunned down by the soldiers during the gun battle that ensued. But the army said 17 soldiers were killed in the encounter . Seventeen corpses of the soldiers were, however, said to have been recovered from the bush while search for the recovery of others continue. This came as the Chief of Defence Staff, CDS, Gen. Christopher Musa at a different event, said the military was set to deploy over 800 well-trained and combat ready special forces into operational areas to tackle myriads of security challenges facing the nation.  Vanguard gathered that the bandits numbering over 200 rode on motorcycles and invaded two military camps in Kwanan Duse and Gulbin Boka comm...

THE National Security Adviser, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, and Chief of Defence Staff, CDS, said yesterday that hunger and poverty are the catalysts fueling insecurity, violence and social disintegration in the country. This came on a day President Bola Tinubu in Abuja, declared that Nigeria’s agricultural renaissance had begun as he commissioned 2,000 tractors for nationwide deployment, under the Renewed Hope Agricultural Mechanisation Programme, to boost food production in the country. According to the duo, the two challenges now constitute security threats to the country. On his part, the NSA, however, said the government of President Bola Tinubu is tackling the challenge through prioritisation of agricultural reforms, social investment programmes, and security sector interventions to break the cycle. Speaking at the 14th National Security Seminar  organised by the Alumni Association of National Defence College in Abuja, Ribadu, who was represented by Major General PP Mala, Director, De...

THE Senate has come down heavily on the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, asking it to account for the missing of N210 trillion in its audited financial statements from 2017 to 2023 in one week. It also said the audited statement listed accrued expenses of ¦ 103 trillion, including retention fees, legal fees, and auditor fees, as supporting documents were not made available to substantiate the transactions, adding that the alleged     discrepancies amounted to the said sum.    The one week ultimatum was given by the the committee on public accounts, led by Senator Aliyu Wadada,  SDP, Nasarawa West. While scrutinising the company’s records yesterday, the committee raised concerns over unexplained figures, under accrued expenses and receivables in the reports. Trouble started for the company when the committee members discovered series of discrepancies in the submissions by the Chief Financial Officer of NNPCL, Dapo Segun, and other top offi...

THE journey to becoming a chartered accountant is rarely without hurdles and for 17-year-old Oluwatiseyitan Alabi, a student of Babcock University, it began with a vision planted by his parents — a determination to qualify with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, ICAN, before completing his university education. That dream, sown early, became a driving force as he commenced studies with quiet resolve, not fully grasping the enormity of the challenge ahead. His story is one of persistence through trials. From the onset, he faced academic pressure, self-doubt, and the demanding structure of the ICAN programme. In a telephone chat, he told Vanguard: “My journey with ICAN started with a seed sowed by my parents to become a qualified accountant before graduation. I began right after I entered school, determined but unaware of the magnitude of what lay ahead. “There were moments of doubt, failure, and even near burnout, but with God’s grace, discipline, and support from my par...