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TechCabal PiggyVest helped Nigerians save and became more than a savings app

The hurdles PiggyVest had to scale to pay out $2.3 billion to its customers since it started a decade ago.

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TechCabal South Africa needs to build tech companies big enough to create their own exits

South Africa can build successful tech startups. The bigger challenge is creating the capital, governance and market pathways that...

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TechCrunch SpaceX alumni nab $100M to rethink shipping with autonomous freight trains

Parallel Systems raised $100 million to scale production of its autonomous electric rail vehicle, which can shuttle thousands of p...

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TechCrunch Bloom raises $3.6M to become the ‘Alibaba’ of American manufacturing

The Detroit startup has widened its scope beyond mobility to help drone and robotics companies find U.S.-based manufacturers, ship...

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TechCrunch Healthleap raises $38M for its AI that flags hospital patients who may need a closer look

The financing includes an $8M seed round co-led by Sequoia Capital and First Round Capital, and a $30 million Series A led by Humm...

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TechCrunch Tony Fadell on why the first wave of AI gadgets failed — and what comes next

The “father of the iPod” says the first generation of AI gadgets failed to solve real problems — and the next wave will need to ea...

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TechCrunch Google experiments with an AI-powered gaming platform

Google Labs is working on a new AI-powered game-creation platform called Playground for users to build browser-based games using s...

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TechCrunch Another personal AI assistant has launched — Meet Tab, which emerged from stealth with a $300M valuation

A new personal AI assistant has arrived. Meet Tab, which announced Tuesday that it had officially emerged from stealth.

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TechCrunch OpenAI’s Alexander Embiricos is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 — days after the launch of Dots

OpenAI’s Alexander Embiricos is coming to the AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, just days after the launch of Dots. Join this c...

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TechCabal From sneaking onto his mom’s typewriter at age six to building Europe’s AI supercomputers

Ifetayo Agboola didn’t follow a corporate playbook. From sneaking out at age six to turn on his mother’s computer in Ilorin, Kwara...

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Premium Times Atiku’s production subsidy: Has politics overtaken economics?, By Kayode Oladele

Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, former Vice President of Nigeria and presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, (ADC), has...

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Premium Times Edo varsity lecturer dies after hotel encounter with sex worker

A senior lecturer at Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Matthew Uwuigbe, died in a hotel in Ekpoma after an encounter with a 21-year...

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Premium Times The Anthony Kila affair: How fake titles captured a university and what it says about Nigeria, By Austin Aigbe

A true Professor in Nigeria spends at least 10-15 years as Assistant Lecturer, Lecturer II, Lecturer I, Senior Lecturer, Reader, t...

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Premium Times Ekiti @ 30: Over ₦50 billion annual IGR, pays workers’ salaries – State Govt

The government also said the state’s dependence on agriculture declined from about 80 per cent in 2005 to 40 per cent in 2017, ref...

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Premium Times NDC faults Zamfara governor’s Ethiopia trip after deadly attack

Reports said 12 soldiers and five artisanal miners died in the attack in Bindin, Maru LGA. The post NDC faults Zamfara governor’s...

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Premium Times African groups seek international tribunal for corporate abuses in Niger Delta

African civil society organisations have cited the Niger Delta’s oil pollution crisis as evidence of corporate impunity, demanding...

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Premium Times Governor’s critic transferred to prison after SSS arraignment

His transfer came days after the Federal High Court in Lafia ordered him remanded in custody following his arraignment by the SSS...

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Premium Times 2027: INEC’s major challenge is procurement transparency, not funding – PLAC

Mr Nwankwo said that while adequate funding is important for the conduct of elections, Nigerians should also be able to scrutinise...

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Premium Times Court remands man who filmed attack on NDC members

PREMIUM TIMES earlier reported that hoodlums attacked and disrupted meetings of the Nigeria Democratic Congress and later PDP whic...

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Premium Times Passenger dies aboard Kenya Airways flight from Nairobi to Lagos

According to the airline, the passenger died after becoming unresponsive about 20 minutes before landing in Lagos, with police inv...

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Premium Times Plateau develops five-year plan as HIV donor funding declines

The proposed five-year framework is expected to guide the state in assuming greater responsibility for financing and coordinating...

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Premium Times 2027: INEC targets 7:30 a.m. readiness at polling units

Mr Ifogah said the commission’s chairman, Joash Amupitan, had emphasised that election officials and materials should not arrive l...

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Premium Times NAF Plane Crash: Newlywed loses husband 20 years after father died in NAF air crash

Flight Lieutenant Damilola Adekunle's father, Wing Commander E.O. Adekunle, was among 13 military officers killed when a NAF Dorni...

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Vanguard Candidates disqualification: Ubani questions House panel’s directive to INEC

By Henry Ojelu LAGOS — A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Dr Monday Ubani, has questioned the legal basis of a reported directive by th...

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