A hotel just built a Christmas cake the size of a bus. Eko Hotels & Suites set a new record with a massive cake at its Tropical Christmas Wonderland event, measuring ten meters long and four meters wide. This surpassed the hotel's own previous record for the longest Christmas cake. The project was led by Chef Nawras and a team of pastry chefs. Director of Sales and Marketing Dr. Iyadunni Gbadebo stated the display symbolizes the hotel's focus on creating memorable festive experiences. The giant cake has become an annual tradition for the hotel's end-of-year celebrations, drawing attention from guests and media alike.
Dangote went full activist and crashed fuel prices. Business titan Aliko Dangote leveraged his refinery to slash pump prices in a direct challenge to established oil sector interests, embodying a popular defiant slogan. His move triggered a public feud with then-regulator Farouk Ahmed of the NMDPRA, whom Dangote accused of corruption and favoring costly fuel imports. Dangote's legal complaint ultimately led to Ahmed's resignation. When another figure, Engineer Kailani, made vague allegations on Trust TV about Dangote's wealth, Dangote threatened a massive lawsuit, forcing a public retraction and apology. The result was a tangible price drop at stations like MRS in Lagos, with Dangote urging public oversight of retailers.
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A safety pro is pushing companies to spot problems before they blow up. Vera Oghenefejiro Idiareh is promoting a predictive safety framework across Nigerian workplaces, moving the focus from reaction to early warning signs. Her methods have been applied in industrial settings like the ChivitaHollandia plant, overseeing safety for a thousand workers on dozens of production lines. The approach led to a year with no lost-time injuries and a major drop in recordable incidents. She has also adapted this model for informal sectors, conducting training at Adatan Market in Abeokuta, which improved trader safety knowledge significantly.
Idiareh's technical credentials include eligibility for the U.S. BCSP Certified Safety Professional...
It was a big year for Nigerian money guys. The country's economic scene saw major moves from its top business figures, led by Aliko Dangote. His wealth jumped over two billion dollars, partly thanks to a new cement plant in Côte d'Ivoire. His massive Lagos oil refinery began petrol production and announced plans to list on the Nigerian exchange, while also sparking a fuel price war and legal battles with regulators. Abdul Samad Rabiu of BUA Group saw his fortune grow significantly, and he distributed millions in cash rewards to long-serving employees. Mike Adenuga's Conoil proposed a large dividend payout after strong revenue growth. Femi Otedola strengthened his controlling stake in First Bank's holding company. Tony Elumelu's...
GPU deals are popping up before the expected price hikes. Current generation cards from both AMD and NVIDIA are seeing discounts right now, ahead of projected cost increases starting early next year. For AMD's RDNA 4 lineup, the flagship Radeon RX 9070 XT with 16GB of VRAM can be found for around six hundred nineteen dollars. This card targets strong 1440p gaming performance. Models from partners like ASRock, PowerColor, and ASUS are available at similar price points.
NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5070 is another option, with some models priced below five hundred fifty dollars. This card also aims at the 1440p market, offering 12GB of memory and ray tracing support. Variants from MSI and GIGABYTE are listed among the deals. For buyers with a...
GPU prices are about to climb again, starting next month. A new report claims AMD will hike its graphics card prices in January 2026, with NVIDIA following in February. This information comes from the industry source Board Channels. The expected increases will affect current generation cards like the AMD RDNA 4-based RX 9000 series and NVIDIA's RTX 50 series. Prices are projected to rise multiple times over several consecutive months.
The report suggests the core issue is rising memory costs. The price of VRAM modules, a major component cost for add-in-board partners, has surged. DDR5 and other DRAM costs have reportedly tripled or quadrupled. With memory now constituting a huge portion of a GPU's total build cost, partners have little...
Zen 6 just leaked in a developer doc, hinting at a wider design. An internal AMD document for developers has revealed the first concrete details on the upcoming Zen 6 CPU architecture, identified as Family 1Ah. The technical reference material outlines performance monitoring counters for models 50h through 57h. A major change confirmed is a shift to an 8-wide instruction dispatch design, a notable increase from previous Zen generations. This wider dispatch allows the core to send more decoded operations to its execution units every clock cycle, boosting throughput for parallel tasks. The documentation also confirms Zen 6 retains Simultaneous Multithreading, with enhanced diagnostic counters to help software developers analyze thread...
Eventide dropped new algorithms for their fancy gear. The update adds four fresh granular effects algorithms to the Eventide H90 and H9000 hardware units. Users can now create shimmering ambient textures with Cosmic Web or make rhythmic glitch effects. The Glitch algorithm uses aliasing and pitch jumps for reactive sounds. GrainMod applies evolving modulation to each grain, while Stutter creates tight or scattered burst patterns. These range from blooming reverse delays to skittering, morphing repeats.
These new algorithms are a free download for existing H90 and H9000 owners. For H9000 users, compatibility depends on the DSP version. The H9000 with Gen2 DSP runs all four new effects. The older Gen1 DSP version only supports the Cosmic...
Exiles in Paris held a vigil for a slain activist. Bangladeshi community members in France gathered at a restaurant in Pantin, outside Paris, for a discussion and prayer meeting honoring Shaheed Sharif Osman Hadi, the Inqilab Moncho convener. Speakers demanded immediate justice for his killing. The event was chaired by community elder and journalist Abdul Mannan Azad, while senior journalist Mohammad Kamruzzaman, convener of the Shaheed Osman Hadi Supporters' Forum, moderated.
Azad stated that Hadi demonstrated a clear path toward establishing a just state, arguing that continuing his struggle was the only way to free the country from imperialist forces. Another journalist, Mohammad Mahbub Hossain, called Hadi a lasting inspiration...
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