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TechCabal AFIS 2026: African banks must rethink digital transformation, says CR2 CEO

African banks must move beyond launching digital apps and invest in stronger banking infrastructure to cut costs, improve customer...

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TechCabal The 20-year experiment: Why IFC thinks African agritech has finally come of age

The IFC is backing 15 African agritech companies and connecting them to nearly 200 commercial banks to expand financing for smallh...

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TechCabal Farouk Ibrahim is learning to build what people actually need

Growing up in Ibadan, he repaired broken toys or made paper replacements, sometimes selling them to schoolmates for ₦5 ($0.0037).

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TechCabal Helium Health secures $2.5 million Google grant to tackle maternal deaths with AI

Helium Health has received $2.5 million grant from Google.org to deploy AI tools that help identify pregnancy risks and improve ma...

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TechCrunch Waymo confirms it will split with Uber in January 2028

The split will set up direct competition in those markets, as Uber has many other autonomous vehicle partners on its network.

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TechCrunch ‘You Can See Everything’ is getting an outer space release and it hasn’t even come out in Europe yet

It is easier to watch the Elizabeth Holmes documentary "You Can See Everything" in low Earth orbit than in London.

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TechCrunch Sequoia hits rewind, undoing 20 years of expansion

Sequoia is consolidating into a smaller, Bay Area–centered firm, shutting down the programs and offices it built during a 20-year...

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TechCrunch Google faces backlash for plan that would turn off Search for schools that restrict AI

Politicians on the left, like NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani and former FTC chair Lina Khan, accused Google of acting as an unregulated...

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TechCrunch I tried Apple’s Siri Recaps. They’re surprisingly useful — and a little unsettling

Apple's AI-powered Siri Recaps won me over in just one day, despite my privacy reservations. But there's still room for improvemen...

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Premium Times Soldiers kill suspected kidnappers, recover AK-47 rifles in Kogi

The Nigerian Army says soldiers and local vigilantes killed three suspected kidnappers during an operation in Igalamela/Odolu LGA....

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Premium Times Abuja Rent: Reps advance bill to protect tenants from exploitation

The proposed legislation seeks to limit compulsory advance rent to 12 months, regulate tenancy practices and establish an authorit...

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Premium Times PSC dismisses three senior police officers, demotes 16 others

The Police Service Commission (PSC) has approved the dismissal of three senior police officers and the demotion of 16 others over...

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Premium Times CJN Kekere-Ekun to chair presentation of SAN’s six books

The books cover criminal litigation, corporate insolvency, arbitration, the legal profession and the relationship between law and...

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Premium Times US Midterms: Why we lost woefully – JD Vance

Mr Vance, in a post on X, said, "The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night." The post US Midterms: W...

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Premium Times 2027: Obuebite defends defection to APC, addresses past criticisms

He added that his political position changed because of developments in the country and the situation within the PDP. The post 202...

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Premium Times Bandits kill soldier, pregnant woman, abduct 15 residents

The attacks reportedly occurred around 4 p.m. on Tuesday in Kuka Sarkin Yamma and Ruwan-Zafi communities, barely two weeks after s...

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Premium Times Tinubu’s Education Reforms: FG disburses ₦372.62bn in student loans, trains 156,446 TVET beneficiaries

The reforms span basic, secondary, technical and tertiary education, with interventions targeting six priority areas: technical an...

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Premium Times Over 2m Northern children, 25,000 teachers benefit as UK-funded programme closes

Mr Vowles said the UK was encouraged that Nigerian institutions were adopting and expanding the approaches under PLANE to sustain...

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Premium Times State Police: Senate sets deadline for state assemblies to transmit resolutions

According to the Senate, the states yet to transmit their resolutions on the proposal are Kano, Oyo, Cross River, Abia, Niger, and...

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Premium Times AI 3D Tools and Nigeria’s Creative Businesses: What counts as a deliverable?

A convincing 3D preview can win a client’s attention and delivering the asset behind it requires a different conversation The post...

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Premium Times CAF Awards: Osimhen, Lookman missing as Nigeria gets zero nominations in men’s categories

No Nigerian player, goalkeeper, coach, club or national team features in any of the seven men's categories announced by CAF. The p...

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Premium Times Nigeria back from brink, but human cost of reforms must be addressed — Sanusi

Mr Sanusi pointed to the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP), which grew by 4.48 per cent in the second quarter of 2026, as evid...

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Vanguard Peter Obi storms Calabar for NDC town hall as supporters throng airport, streets

The presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, Mr Peter Obi, on Wednesday arrived in Calabar, the Cross River...

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Vanguard APC group insists Karimi won Kogi West senatorial primary

By Adeola Badru The Win With Tinubu (WWT) Grassroots Mobilisation Programme in Kogi State has insisted that Senator Sunday Steve K...

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