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Premium Times FG deploys experts to assist in probe of deaths of 37 detained illegal mining suspects in Niger

The Niger State Government, NSCDC, Nigeria Police Force and other relevant agencies are also probing the incident The post FG depl...

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Premium Times Court overturns judgement ordering NDC’s deregistration

PREMIUM TIMES reported that the Federal High Court in Lokoja, Kogi State, in June, set aside its earlier judgement directing INEC...

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Premium Times Atiku denies corruption verdict, but fails to address ICC tribunal’s concerns over $500,000 payment

Mambilla: Atiku denies indictment over suspicious $500,000 payment, but silent on key issues raised by ICC tribunal The post Atiku...

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Premium Times NDLEA trains sniffer dog handlers in narcotics detection

NDLEA noted that the dogs and their handlers had contributed to the agency's efforts to detect concealed narcotics at airports, se...

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Premium Times Inside Lagos’ auto spare parts market where traders protested Chinese retailing activities

“What we are saying is that they should give us a chance to sell in the market; let them go somewhere else, and they also have sho...

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Premium Times Trump says deal with Denmark gives US permanent control over Greenland’s security

Mr Trump, in a post on his Truth Social platform, described the deal as “historic,” “special,” and a “dream come true for the US.”...

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Premium Times ICRC tracing 17,000 missing-person cases in Nigeria

The International Committee of the Red Cross says about 17,000 missing-person cases remain under active tracing in Nigeria, with m...

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Premium Times NAFDAC confirms 48 deaths, 182 cases of illness linked to toxic herbal concoction in Ondo

NAFDAC said investigation and risk-control measures are still ongoing in the affected communities in collaboration with relevant p...

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TechCrunch Tilly Norwood’s press tour is going about as well as you’d expect for an AI

In one particularly odd interview, Norwood seems to malfunction and begin speaking Chinese.

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TechCrunch India forces caller-ID apps to feed spam reports to telcos

Truecaller says the one-way sharing requirement would hand a commercially valuable proprietary asset to telecom operators.

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Premium Times Joseph Tegbe’s panic response to power sector reform, By Adeola Akinremi

In Ayn Rand’s mystery story, the Atlas Shrugged, there is something Nigeria’s Minister of Power, Joseph Tegbe, can absorb: reason....

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Premium Times Remembering Kweku Amafegha and the saga of OPL 245, By Osmund Agbo

He smiled, extended his hand and clasped mine firmly. “My name is Kweku,” he said, with the quiet assurance of a man entirely at e...

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TechCrunch Y Combinator insurance tech alum Angle Health hits $2.7B valuation

Angle Health has grown to 5,000 customers and become profitable by helping small businesses get "level-funded" health insurance.

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TechCrunch Automattic names interim CFO after exec departures

Jeremy Klaperman, the CFO of the company's WordPress VIP Enterprise business unit, will act as CFO for the time being.

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TechCrunch Anthropic’s first embedded evaluator is … Accenture?

Accenture is about to take on its most high-risk consulting engagement ever.

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TechCrunch AI hallucination nearly triggers US military operation

“It’s important for service members to understand the uncertainty inherent to LLMs," a GovAI research scholar warns.

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TechCrunch Anthropic is operating a lab that conducts biology experiments

AI leaders have been promising that AI is the key to curing human disease. Anthropic researchers have also been warning that AI mi...

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TechCrunch A startup that builds other startups raised $100M and is all-in on physical AI

UP.Labs, now doing business under the name Vantora, is building startups for industrial corporations.

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Premium Times Food as poison, By Lande Ọmọ Ọba

Like many, I was intrigued by former Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo’s recent comments about his wife, Dolapo, and her dai...

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Premium Times Ex-President Jonathan calls for civil service reform, unified federal-state salary structure

Mr Jonathan made the call in Yenagoa on Friday during the foundation-laying and fund-raising ceremony for the Bayelsa State Associ...

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Premium Times EFCC recovers, hands over N140 million to loan, investment company

The company alleged that shares pledged as collateral for a N500 million loan were sold without its knowledge. The post EFCC recov...

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Premium Times Marine police rescue two from boat mishap in Akwa Ibom

Police said the incident occurred at about 1:30 p.m. on 17 September when a blue W23 speedboat christened “LET’S PRAY” sank while...

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Premium Times Mambilla: APC campaign council asks Atiku to quit 2027 presidential race

The ​‌‌‍​‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠​⁠​‍⁠⁠‌‌​council alleged that proceedings before an International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) tribunal in Paris had r...

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Premium Times Tinubu, Bolloré discuss new investments in Nigeria’s film, entertainment sectors

Mr Bollore’s connection to Nigeria’s media industry has become more significant following Canal+’s acquisition of the MultiChoice...

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