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…FoodCourt's long road to pausing operations On February 21, 2026, FoodCourt's human resources manager removed several employees from the company's WhatsApp group chat, where it ran most of its operations, internal messages seen by TechCabal show. It was the same day Nneji addressed staff directly about “the current sal…

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