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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Thursday directed security agencies to unravel warehouses in Kano reportedly hoarding food in large-scale, creating artificial scarcity and inflation. The President gave the directive at a meeting with 36 state governors, attended by Vice-President Kashim Shettima, the National Security Adviser, the Inspector-General of Police, the Director-General of the DSS, and some ministers at the State House in Abuja. According to a statement from the Presidency, Tinubu says his administration is evolving home-grown solutions to address the nation’s food security challenges by setting up schemes to support local production and discourage all forms of rent-seeking…

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Startup accelerator institution, Y Combinator has released a list of 20 new sectors it seeks to fund for startups that will be joining its program, including ideas in robotics, and stablecoin finance. Y Combinator updates the list periodically, depending on what kinds of startups it sees gaining traction and where it thinks there’s opportunity. This update, released in a blog post on Wednesday, represents the biggest overhaul to its “requests for startups” since 2018. In the post, YC Managing Director Dalton Caldwell, said the YC Group Partners meet and discuss the current batch every week and one common area of…

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