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Vanguard At least 180 killed in Nepal-Tibet floods, over 1,300 missing

Nepali police said they had recovered 177 bodies, but another 823 people, including 517 foreign tourists, were out of contact in t...

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TechCrunch Nvidia closes in on Hugging Face acquisition

Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face, the popular open source AI hub, for $12.9 billion in a move that would let Nvidi...

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TechCabal 👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – Pick n Pay, pick n scroll

In today's edition: Ventures Platform closes $84m fund || Kenya’s Musalia Mudavadi wants the country to join global cyber-police |...

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Premium Times FG targets steady power for 30% of health facilities by 2027 amid PHC electricity gap

According to Salako, between 60 and 70 per cent of Nigeria’s primary and tertiary health facilities experience frequent power outa...

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Premium Times Fake Agency Scandal: ICPC names top civil servants who allegedly aided Adeyemi, collected money

ICPC exposed how senior officials in the federal civil service helped the organisation obtain administrative approvals and gain ac...

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Vanguard Fuel subsidy: Atiku’s third U-turn exposes political posturing — PRESIDENCY

The Presidency has again taken a swipe at former Vice President and presidential candidate of African Democratic Congress, ADC, Al...

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Vanguard Despite fall in crude price, petrol hits N1,212 per litre

Despite drop in price of crude in the global oil market, operators in Nigeria’s downstream sector have increased the prices of Pre...

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Vanguard 2027: Vote ‘right’ or be banished? By Ikechukwu Amaechi

As should be expected in this political silly season, politicians will maximise the window to test wild narratives and launch pers...

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Vanguard Dr Abati’s misrepresentations of the ICPC “fake agency” investigation, by Suleiman A. Suleiman

RIGHT OF REPLY Dr Rueben Abati’s “The Menace of Fake Agencies” syndicated column in THISDAY and TheCable this week makes an intere...

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Vanguard Sheikh Jingir: Tinubu strips Christianity of political relevance in Nigeria, by Olu Fasan

In 2023, Bola Ahmed Tinubu sowed the seed of the political humiliation of Christianity in Nigeria. As a presidential candidate, Ti...

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Vanguard Obidient Connect Texas inaugurates leadership structure, mobilises diaspora for 2027 vote protection

…Calls for massive lawful support and grassroots organisation ahead of Nigeria’s 2027 presidential election The Obidient Connect T...

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Vanguard Five PFAs control pension market, account for 54% of new RSAs

•States still foot-dragging on CPS implementation By Rosemary Iwunze Five Pension Fund Administrators, PFAs, out of 18 licensed op...

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Vanguard 2027 Elections: Uwais Report alive on paper, dead in implementation

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri In the wake of the 2007 general elections, widely regarded as flawed, the late President Umaru Yar’Adua esta...

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Vanguard FAAN reinstates Bolt at airports, denies fixing taxi fares

Following complaints by travellers over the suspension of e-hailing services at airports, the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeri...

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Vanguard N600bn disbursed to 10m households under cash transfer scheme — FG

The Federal Government has disbursed more than N600 billion in cash transfers to over 10 million households across the country in...

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Vanguard Rehabilitating South Africa evacuees

The latest xenophobic violence in South Africa has again exposed the precarious existence of African migrants in a country that ow...

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Vanguard 2027: Tinubu building enduring systems, not quick fixes — Adegbonmire

By Dayo Johnson, Akure The All Progressives Congress (APC) senatorial candidate for Ondo Central, Senator Adeniyi Adegbonmire, SAN...

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Vanguard Lawyers rally support for Tax Ombud’s drive to increase tax compliance

Nigerian lawyers have reaffirmed the pivotal role of taxation as a major source of government revenue for infrastructure developme...

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Vanguard Oladipo’s death, painful loss to media industry — Tinubu, Sanwo-Olu, Uzodimma

…He was a distinguished journalist, gentleman — NGE, NUJ, GOCOP LAGOS—PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos...

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Vanguard Dollar to Naira exchange rate today, August 27, 2026

The Nigerian naira is trading at about ₦1,345.94 to the US dollar in the Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market (NFEM) on Thursday, Augu...

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TechCrunch Viral AI startup Instinct has raised $350M at a $2.5B valuation

The startup is only a year old but it has already generated a massive amount of hype (and money) while also spurring privacy conce...

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TechCrunch Amazon just tripled its order of Nvidia chips over ‘surging demand’

Amazon is adding another 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to its data centers over the next two years. But this extended partnerships st...

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TechCrunch Meta’s $18B child-safety deal hinges on age-verification tech that doesn’t work well

The historic settlement reignites ongoing concern around how age-verification technology puts privacy at risk.

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Premium Times Africa must turn its wealth into bargaining power to rewrite global debt rules — Experts

The call comes months after African Union leaders adopted the Common African Position on Debt, which seeks to strengthen Africa’s...

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