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  1. Munyaradzi Mafaro

    Nigeria’s hunger crisis deepens, experts urge bold fixes

    Nigeria hit severe hunger levels that have experts freaking out about the country needing major system overhauls to fix food production. About 50 million people are starving while the global average sits way lower, and the north is getting destroyed with rates pushing 50 percent. Some foundation...
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    Nigeria, IFAD ramps up SAPZ reforms, farmers see fresh gains

    Nigeria and IFAD kicked off their second checkup mission for the agricultural processing zones program, and the IFAD country director said they profiled over 41,000 small farmers across Ogun and Kano while handing out inputs and training to almost 15,000 people. The whole thing is backed by...
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    LAIF at 20, Nigeria’s ad world gets its creative moment

    The advertising crew behind LAIF is throwing their big creative conference at the Lagos Marriott Hotel in Ikeja, and they're celebrating two decades of the festival with some theme about being crazy for 20 years. The event pulls together ad people from Nigeria and beyond to talk about AI...
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    Hanson Johnson takes ISN helm, Nigeria’s startups rally

    Hanson Johnson from Start Innovation Hub just got voted in as the new board chair for Nigeria's Innovation Support Network, and the tech crowd seems pretty hyped about it. The guy runs a network connecting over 230 innovation hubs spread across 32 states, which makes it one of the bigger...
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    Qiqi Farms tops FCMB AgriTech Hack, startups reap rewards

    FCMB teamed up with some Dutch development bank and HeaveVentures to wrap up their AgriTech Hackathon thing, where seven Nigerian startups pitched their farming tech solutions. Qiqi Farms walked away with the top prize, and Farm Monitor plus Tuplant grabbed second and third place. The other four...
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    Africa Energy Bank HQ ready in Abuja, doors set to open

    Nigeria's oil minister checked out the African Energy Bank headquarters in Abuja and said the building looks fire after getting fully decked out. Senator Heineken Lokpobiri told reporters that his country handled everything it promised as the host nation, and the facility sits in a prime spot...
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    Bayelsa’s new airline lands, runway dreams take flight

    Bayelsa State just landed its first government-owned plane at the airport in Yenagoa after Governor Douye Diri and a bunch of political heavyweights took the inaugural flight on an ATR-72/600 that seats 72 people. The governor said this whole thing proves his administration actually followed...
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    CS2 skin gambling in Nigeria, gray lines meet real risks

    Nigeria's online gambling scene keeps getting messier for people betting CS2 skins in 2026. Federal and state rules don't line up, and offshore casinos serving Nigerian players might hold licenses from places like Curaçao but still lack proper authorization to operate locally. The government...
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    Bollywood’s glam squad steps out, friendship goals served

    Mouni Roy hit up some restaurant with Disha Patani and Sonam Bajwa for a girls' night situation. Mouni and Sonam both wore cream-colored outfits that basically matched, while Disha went with black and kept her hair down. They posted a bunch of photos showing them laughing and posing together...
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    Jadrolinija set for green upgrade, islanders eye relief

    Croatia's state-owned ferry company is about to drop serious cash on getting its boat situation sorted out. The government plans to grab somewhere between 10 and 20 new ships over the next few years, and the whole thing will run around 200 million euros. State officials made it clear that...
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    Chunky Panday steals the show, Bollywood nostalgia rules

    Chunky Panday showed up on India's Got Talent and absolutely killed it with his comedy bits. He joked that every dude in the country has Malaika Arora posters in their room, but then flipped it by asking whose poster she keeps, answering his own question with Chunky Panday. The whole studio lost...
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    Greatman’s wheelchair plea hits the wrong target, and blame shifts

    Someone went off about Greatman Music, asking Fadzayi Mahere for wheelchair donations. They said it was wild to hit up a random private person like she's responsible for fixing government failures. The whole point is that wheelchairs should come from actual state resources like the Zimbabwean...
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    BYD’s EV city dwarfs San Francisco, rivals race to catch up

    BYD is throwing up a monster EV factory complex that literally dwarfs San Francisco in total footprint. The Chinese company basically decided to cram everything under one roof, from battery plants to parts suppliers to final assembly, which lets them pump out vehicles way faster and cheaper...
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    Shoprite out-earns Zimbabwe, Ncube budget called tiny

    Zimbabwe's finance minister dropped a budget that basically screams how broke the country actually is. The government can only scrape together 9.5 billion dollars for everything next year, which gets completely embarrassing when you realize one South African grocery chain pulls in 12 billion...
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    Dharmendra remembered twice, family hosts dueling tributes

    Dharmendra's family split his memorial into two completely separate events because things got awkward with the whole two-wife situation. His first wife, Prakash Kaur, and sons Sunny plus Bobby Deol threw a gathering in Mumbai that pulled massive Bollywood names like Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan...
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    Bollywood unites for Dharmendra, fans honor a legend

    The Deol family threw a memorial gathering for Dharmendra after the Bollywood legend died, and they actually called it a celebration of life instead of the usual prayer meet setup. Singer Sonu Nigam apparently performed the late actor's songs during the event while tons of industry people showed...
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    Kapil Sharma returns to Colours, comedy trio back in action

    Kapil Sharma is heading back to COLOURS after an 11-year gap following their messy professional breakup that killed Comedy Nights with Kapil. The comedian who basically avoided the channel since then will pop up on Laughter Chefs Unlimited Entertainment alongside his old buddies Krushna Abhishek...
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    Stars gather for Dharmendra tribute, Bollywood mourns legend

    Shah Rukh Khan rolled up to the prayer gathering for legendary Bollywood actor Dharmendra, who died at 89 after decades of dominating Indian cinema. His son Aryan showed up earlier at the Mumbai venue, while other massive names like Aishwarya Rai Bachchan with husband Abhishek, plus Salman Khan...
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    Budget pullback called overdue, APS says ruling party stalling

    Hasan Ademov from APS told reporters the government won't scrap their budget proposal because they're scared of taking the political hit. He pointed out that claims about having no other options turned out to be complete nonsense since alternative plans exist, and the coalition is just...
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    BSP called powerless, Hristov says left needs reboot

    Ivo Hristov, who used to work for President Radev, basically said BSP turned into a puppet party that only survives because it grabbed some government positions to hand out jobs to loyalists. The former MEP thinks they might not even clear the entry threshold next election cycle and claimed...
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