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[Vanguard] Faqced with inadequate accommodation as over 30,000 students jostle for about 8,000 bed spaces, the management of the University of Lagos, UNILAG, may approve squatting for students with their colleagues, just as it vowed to sanction those engaged in hostel racketeering.

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[Vanguard] In what has become one of the most closely watched political realignments in Nigeria's South-South region, Bayelsa State has witnessed a strategic transition of power and party identity -- anchored by seasoned political stewardship and a carefully managed reconciliation process within the All Progressives Congress (APC).

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[Vanguard] As the Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC) intensifies enforcement of the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation, NDPR, many Nigerian businesses remain unknowingly exposed to crippling legal and security risks.

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[Vanguard] "Where there is no vision, the people perish; but where there is no truth, the people turn against each other."

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[Vanguard] Technology has once more made an in-road into the oil & gas industry, giving the country first start into the automated, unmanned system of filling station operations.

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[Vanguard] The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has disclosed that 5.36 million electricity customers nationwide remain without meters, leaving them exposed to the unpredictable estimated billing methods by distribution companies (DisCos).

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[Vanguard] *Over 57,000 5G-ready devices can't connect network

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[Dabanga] Khartoum / Amsterdam -- Report by Suleiman Siri for Radio Dabanga

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[Dabanga] Port Sudan / Amsterdam -- A decision by the Sudan Bar Association in Port Sudan to withdraw the practising licences of 31 lawyers has sparked widespread controversy within Sudan's legal and human rights circles, raising serious questions about legality, due process and the independence of the legal profession amid the country's ongoing conflict.

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Venezuela’s military has begun burying dozens of soldiers killed in a United States military operation, holding a mass funeral in the capital, Caracas, on Wednesday.

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[Vanguard] ...Say action raises concern over new form of imperialism

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[Vanguard] Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has warned that Nigeria's democracy was facing an existential threat, accusing President Bola Tinubu's administration of deliberately weakening opposition parties and shrinking democratic space in a manner that could lead to a de facto one-party state.

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[Vanguard] Minna -- Barely days after terrorists killed over 40 persons in Niger State last weekend, the marauders have again struck in Kwara, Katsina and Kaduna, kidnapping several victims, including a photo journalists.

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[Afrobarometer] Majorities say schools should teach sex education and schoolgirls who get pregnant should be allowed to continue their education.

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[Afrobarometer] Most citizens say women should have the same chance as men of being elected to public office.

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Ivory Coast’s government has formally resigned, paving the way for a new cabinet following last month’s legislative elections. President Alassane Ouattara accepted the resignation on Wednesday, January 7, after the ruling RHDP party secured a landslide victory.

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[Scrolla] The National Freedom Party decided to leave the KwaZulu-Natal Government of Provincial Unity with immediate effect after the NEC meeting on Monday. NFP orders its Social Development MEC Mbali Shinga to resign after refusing to support MK no confidence vote against the premier.

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[ENA] Addis Ababa -- Orthodox Christians in countries stretching from Ethiopia to Russia are celebrating Christmas today, honoring the birth of Jesus Christ with prayer, worship, and acts of compassion.

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[Shabelle] Mogadishu -- Hundreds of people demonstrated in Somalia's capital Today to protest Israel's decision to recognise Somaliland as an independent state, organisers and officials said.

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[263Chat] The suspect in the murder of broadcast journalist Cordelia Masalethulini, whose body was discovered lying in a pool of blood along the Domboshava-Borrowdale Road in Harare on Monday morning, has appeared before the Harare Magistrates' Court.

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[Premium Times] The report notes that while Lagos already behaves like a global start-up hub, its long-term standing will depend on how quickly infrastructure, regulation and quality of life improve.