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Vanguard Premier League releases bumper Boxing Day fixtures

The Premier League has released a bumper Boxing Day schedule, with seven matches set to be played on Saturday, December 26, 2026....

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Vanguard Algeria cuts diplomatic ties with the UAE

In an official statement, Algiers accused the Gulf country of "provocative and hostile acts", but it remained unclear what trigger...

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Vanguard AI must strengthen, not replace, INEC — Amupitan

ABUJA: The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Joash Ojo Amupitan, SAN, has said the successful...

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Vanguard Gombe Police rescue three kidnap victims

By Ben Ngwakwe, Gombe GOMBE: The Gombe State Police Command has recorded operational breakthroughs in its fight against kidnapping...

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Vanguard Why Nigeria Port charges must drop — Usman

By Providence Ayanfeoluwa LAGOS: Former Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, Hadiza Bala Usman, has called for...

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Vanguard Family seeks justice as butcher hacks 25-year old wife to death in Ekiti

By Rotimi Ojomoyela Ado-Ekiti–A meat seller, Ibrahim Sodiq, popularly known as Alfa Eleran, has allegedly hacked his 25-year old w...

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TechCrunch Bending Spoons to buy collaboration tools maker Miro for $1.36B, 90% less than its 2022 valuation

Bending Spoons is buying Miro for $1.36 billion, a huge dip in valuation for the workplace collaboration startup, which was valued...

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TechCrunch Maven Robotics wants to steal your robot deployment deal

Maven Robotics emerged from stealth today with a $100 million Series A and active deployments.

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TechCrunch Google signs its biggest rice-methane carbon credit deal with Indian startup Mitti Labs

The four-year agreement will cover rice farms across three Indian states, reaching about 100,000 hectares at peak delivery.

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TechCrunch ID verification giant IDScan confirms data breach with more than 150 million driver’s licenses stolen

The ID checking company said the data breach included people's full names and driver's licenses and other government-issued identi...

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TechCrunch Google is making it easier to switch between password managers on Android

Google's new feature will transfer your passkeys as well.

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TechCrunch The Boring Company raises $3B in round led by UAE

The company said it plans to dig more than 150 kilometers of tunnels in the Middle Eastern country.

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TechCrunch AI agents are flooding public services with new requests

“The vast majority of cases we find are people who are entitled to claim for something, claiming for that thing,” the researcher t...

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TechCabal How PressOne turned fast customer growth into a profitable cloud-telephony business

The core value proposition was simple: a small business with four, five, or ten employees should be able to run a professional pho...

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TechCabal iPhone 18 Pro: Price, release date, specs and features

Apple announced the iPhone 18 Pro on Wednesday, with prices starting at $1,199 in the US, and it lands in stores on September 18.

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TechCabal South Africa is rebuilding the machinery behind its payments system

At a Standard Bank roundtable in Johannesburg on Wednesday, three payments executives outlined how new regulations, richer payment...

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Vanguard NNPC to deploy 70 smart stations nationwide

—Stations to offer self-service fuel, EV charging, LPG, CNG By Obas Esiedesa, Abuja ABUJA — The Nigerian National Petroleum Compan...

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Vanguard Ondo herbal drink deaths rise to 30; 50 hospitalised

Samples of the substance has been collected for laboratory analysis, while blood and urine samples were also being obtained from p...

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Vanguard Release 2026 capital funds, CSJ tells FG

—Accuses NASS of oversight failure By Emma Ujah, Abuja Bureau Chief ABUJA — The Centre for Social Justice, CSJ, has urged the Fede...

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Vanguard Nigeria’s rebased economy must translate into industrial growth — Minister

…Need to shift from resilience to sustained growth – MANBy Yinka KolawoleThe Minister of State for Industry, Senator John Owan Eno...

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Vanguard Fire guts Abuja train station, operations unaffected

By Olasunkanmi Akoni ABUJA — A fire incident on Wednesday evening affected part of the Idu Train Station in Abuja, damaging some e...

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Vanguard List of 10 youngest billionaires in Africa

Africa's billionaire class is dominated by older business leaders, but a handful of younger billionaires have also earned fortunes...

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Vanguard Dangote IPO could lift GDP to $600bn — Rewane

—Refinery expansion to drive investment, exports, industrial output By Obas Esiedesa, Abuja ABUJA — The proposed N2.15 trillion In...

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Vanguard At least 14 children killed in DR Congo school fire stampede

A stampede after a fire broke out in a school in the eastern DR Congo city of Bukavu has killed at least 14 children, local and he...

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