Vincent Ozoude runs Transafam Power Limited under Transcorp Group and says Nigeria's power companies are getting wrecked by funding problems and bad infrastructure. The generation firms only collect about 27 to 30 percent of what they bill the market, though President Bola Tinubu is working on clearing out a legacy debt pile worth N4 trillion. Wild foreign exchange swings make it impossible to buy spare parts or keep turbines maintained on schedule, and gas supply issues keep hitting thermal plants even though Nigeria has massive natural gas reserves.
Transafam moved some trailer-mounted turbines over to a sister plant that has better gas access while waiting for the situation to improve at their main Afam location. The company brought...
Nvidia pulled the plug on driver updates for GTX 900 and GTX 1000 cards, which means anyone still running Maxwell or Pascal architecture is getting kicked off the update train. The cutoff happened with driver version 591.44, and the GTX 16 series became the oldest generation still getting proper support. Linux users already got dropped earlier, and the company had warned people this was coming.
Cards like the GTX 970, GTX 1060, and GTX 1080 will keep working but are shifting to security-only patches through 2028. That means no more game optimizations, bug fixes, or compatibility improvements when new titles drop. Performance will take a hit over time as modern games lean on newer driver features.
Affected GPUs can still handle older...
Zimbabwe's small-scale miners are pushing back against Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube after he proposed bumping gold royalties from 5% to 10% for anything over $2,501 per ounce. The Zimbabwe Miners Federation sent him a letter saying the hike would tank new exploration projects and drive smuggling through the roof, since miners would just ship their product across borders where taxes are lower.
Small-scale operations handle over 75% of the country's gold production, and the federation warned that pushing them toward black-market channels would actually hurt government revenue instead of helping it. They said official exports would drop, which would mess with foreign currency reserves and exchange rates.
Gold sales jumped 88% to $3.76...
Tendai Biti went off on ZANU PF over on X, calling them murderers and fascists while dragging up some really old dirt. The former finance minister from Zimbabwe brought up Herbert Chitepo, a ZANU chairman who got killed back in 1975, and said the party did it instead of the Rhodesians. He also pointed to the 2018 shootings in Harare, where civilians got shot.
Biti said Vernon Mwanga, who was running Zambia's foreign ministry at the time, backed up his claims about Chitepo. Apparently, Chitepo got accused of working with some rebel leaders, and Zambia ended up arresting Josiah Tongogara, plus other ZANU people, over the whole thing.
He didn't stop there and listed a bunch of other deaths he's pinning on the party, ending with...
Two former Gamechanger Audio guys named Toms Lazdovskis and Matiss Tazans just dropped their first pedal under a new brand called Metha Works. The Monk Echo is a delay and reverb unit that uses formant filters to make your guitar sound like a human choir, and the team behind it has worked at Neural DSP, Darkglass, and Marshall before.
The pedal lets you blend reverb and delay together while shaping vowel sounds through male, female, and kids' vocal characters. You can morph between different vowel shapes manually or set them to respond to how hard you play. A macro control system links multiple settings to one knob or expression pedal, so you can sweep between wildly different tones. It handles everything from subtle echoes to...
Shruti Pathak sang Hum Dono for the upcoming Kartik Aaryan and Ananya Pandey movie Tu Meri Main Tera Main Tera Tu Meri, and she mentioned Aaryan was pretty hands-on during the recording session. The actor apparently told her he wanted an acoustic take on the track after hearing it.
Pathak called the tune a fresh romantic banger that fits the vibe of young love perfectly. She gave props to lyricist Anvita Dutt for nailing the words and said working with composers Vishal Shekhar always brings out her best stuff since they basically define what cool Bollywood music sounds like.
The Dharma Productions and Namah Pictures flick hits theaters later this month.
Shabana Azmi dropped a birthday message for director Shekhar Kapur on social media, calling him restless and creative but somehow never rushed. The veteran actress said his contradictory nature makes him fascinating and told him to keep searching for answers instead of thinking he has everything figured out.
The two worked together on Masoom back in the day and apparently dated for seven years before splitting up. They are teaming up again for Masoom 2, which Kapur announced with a finished script that keeps the original vibe while bringing a new storyline.
The sequel brings back Azmi and Naseeruddin Shah from the first movie, and Manoj Bajpayee, plus Nithya Menen, are jumping in alongside Kapur's daughter Kaveri.
Kartik Aaryan got super emotional watching his sister Kritika tie the knot and dumped his feelings all over Instagram with wedding photos and a long caption about watching her transform from a kid following him around to a bride starting her next chapter. The Bhool Bhulaiyaa actor called her Kiki and said he was proud of who she became while reminding her that she will always be his baby sister, no matter what.
He gave props to her husband, Tej, for being pure-hearted and said he was stoked that she found legit once-in-a-lifetime love, which is apparently tough to come by these days. Aaryan blessed the newlyweds and hoped their marriage would bring everything they dreamed about.
Aalisha Panwar landed a role in Vinny Ki Kitaab, where she basically got to live out her Bollywood fantasy by wearing a bunch of colorful chiffon sarees while shooting scenes in the Kasol valleys of Himachal Pradesh. The web series drops on Hungama OTT and follows a small-town woman who writes steamy stories about her fantasies before her husband and best friend completely wreck her life.
Panwar mentioned she always wanted that classic heroine vibe with the whole valley backdrop thing, and this project delivered exactly what she was hoping for. Her character starts as a lonely housewife who has nobody to talk to, but eventually transforms into a popular writer who stops apologizing for herself.
The show apparently tackles themes like...
