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Vanguard IMF, President Tinubu and the transparency challenge

By Moshood Oshunfurewa If we are to reincarnate the late Chief Gani Oyesola Fawehinmi (1938–2009), a legendary Nigerian human righ...

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Vanguard NFF: Need for a new beginning

Nigeria’s absence from the 2026 World Cup is not fate. It is the bill finally arriving for years of reckless housekeeping at the N...

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Vanguard Goodluck Jonathan: Nigeria’s most cowardly politician! By Olu Fasan

Twice in recent presidential election cycles, Goodluck Jonathan, Nigeria’s former one-term president, allowed speculations to spre...

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Vanguard Oyo abduction and Makinde’s call for UN probe, by Ikechukwu Amaechi

There is no well-meaning Nigerian who is not relieved that the Oyo State kidnap saga ended happily despite the eight fatalities an...

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Vanguard FG, NDDC mobilise $500m Niger Delta agric fund to galvanize food production

…..N’Delta most peaceful region for investment – NDDC boss By Gabriel Ewepu ABUJA – THE Federal Government, Wednesday, mobilised a...

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Vanguard AMLSN hails Senate’s passage of med lab varsity bill, urges Tinubu’s swift assent

… Says new institution will boost medical training, research, health securityBy Chioma Obinna The Association of Medical Laborator...

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Vanguard Anambra nonagenarian leads protest over communal land dispute

By Vincent Ujumadu A 96-year-old man, Elder Stephen Okoye, on Wednesday led hundreds of residents of Umuenu Quarters in Umuawulu,...

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Vanguard Nigeria, Morocco agree deal on agricultural intelligence food security

—-To establish geospatial crop monitoring, food security planning By Johnbosco Agbakwuru ABUJA— THE Presidency on Wednesday sent a...

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TechCrunch Inside Ode with Anthropic, the startup betting AI services are the future of enterprise

Can a handful of engineers really do the work of an army of consultants? That’s the bet behind Ode with Anthropic — the joint vent...

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TechCrunch Tesla driver in fatal Texas crash pressed accelerator 100%, NTSB confirms

The safety board confirmed Tesla's account of the crash, which the company shared days after it happened last month.

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TechCrunch Daniel Ek’s body-scanning startup Neko Health raises another $700M

Neko Health has developed proprietary body-scanning technology, which it couples with bloodwork, to assess a person's health.

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TechCrunch Amid hardware legal battle, OpenAI releases a $230 keyboard for Codex

OpenAI, which is in the middle of a legal battle with Apple over hardware trade theft allegations, just released a light-up keyboa...

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TechCrunch Microsoft patches bug in video game Age of Empires II

The vulnerability in the decades-old game could have allowed hackers to take over victims’ computers with a malicious game invite.

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TechCrunch Apple bans home services from its upcoming Maps ads

Apple has published the policies governing its upcoming Maps advertising business, revealing a strategy that differs from Google’s...

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TechCrunch SpaceX falls to $135 IPO price ahead of Starship launch

The stock has steadily fallen from the euphoric post-IPO high, showing that markets may be sobering up to the promises CEO Elon Mu...

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TechCrunch Thinking Machines amps up its bet against one-size-fits-all AI with its first open model, Inkling

It's the company's first public proof point after a year and a half spent building AI infrastructure largely out of public view.

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TechCrunch Phone maker OnePlus reportedly plans to wind down US and Europe operations

OnePlus could also wind down its operations in India by 2027.

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TechCrunch Google’s biggest clean power project is 40 miles north of xAI’s unpermitted gas power plant

Google's biggest solar and battery project stands in sharp contrast with xAI's nearby unpermitted power plant.

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TechCrunch Hack suggests AI music generator Suno scraped YouTube for training data

The hacker used an employee's credentials to access source code, which revealed how Suno scraped decades of audio.

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TechCrunch Whatnot acquires Shaped to power real-time live shopping recommendations

Livestream shopping platform Whatnot has acquired AI startup Shaped, a machine learning company focused on real-time recommendatio...

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TechCrunch Microsoft patches record number of security vulnerabilities, citing its use of AI

Microsoft's monthly release of security fixes, dubbed Patch Tuesday, resolved a record 570 security vulnerabilities across the com...

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Premium Times Afrophobia: ANC and the denigration of the Black struggle, By Ahmed Aminu-Ramatu Yusuf

I totally recognise that the seeds for the current Afrophobia and xenophobia were on ground before 1994. Nevertheless, Nelson Mand...

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Premium Times Kogi organises search for abducted NECO candidates

Governor Ahmed Ododo has ordered a multi-agency security operation involving the military, police, DSS and local security outfits...

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Premium Times Sanwo-Olu, officials visit flood-hit Lagos communities, reassures residents

The enviroment commissioner explained that the recent downpours produced an unusually large volume of water that exceeded the capa...

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