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Foreign-owned start-ups are driving an African tech revolution — and prompting old fears of exploitation Credit: Paul Garland © Paul Garland In 1886, barely a year after Europe’s great powers met in Berlin to carve up the continent of Africa, Queen Victoria granted Sir George Goldie a charter for his Royal Niger Company. The charter …
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Illustrated | AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, the8monkey/iStock, final09/iStock America's ongoing expansion is now the longest on record, a whopping 121 months of economic growth. But what else can we say about it? For sure not this: "The Economy is the BEST IT HAS EVER BEEN! Even much of the Fake News is giving me credit for …
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Police forces reveal how fast you ACTUALLY have to go to get caught speeding EVER wondered what speed you actually have to be doing to get caught by a speed camera? Could even 1mph over the limit do it? Or maybe you heard it was 10 per cent? Forces across the country have now cleared …
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Kaduna State Governor Nasir el-Rufai Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasiru El-Rufai, on Saturday described the Northern part of Nigeria as backward, uneducated and unhealthy. El-Rufai said during the Northern Youth Summit organized by Northern Hibiscus Initiative in Kaduna, that the region has made Nigeria a country of nations. “Looking at the statistics, Nigeria appears to …
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The Nigerian army captain who allegedly ordered the killing of three policemen in Taraba state had been in touch with Hamisu Wadume, the kidnap suspect, according to Vanguard. The captain was said to have had 191 phone conversations with the suspect being held when the policemen were killed. Police authorities are said to also believe he was …
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