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Nigerian retirees keep wondering if PenCom will actually deliver on clearing pension debts before the calendar flips. Director-General Omolola Oloworaran promised that a 758 billion naira bond approved by the federal government would wipe out legacy liabilities under the Contributory Pension...

SUNU Assurances Nigeria grabbed the Highest Share Price Appreciation Award at the PEARL Awards ceremony that went down at Lagos Oriental Hotel. Dr. Samuel Ogbodu, the managing director and CEO, said the win came from solid teamwork, customer trust, and shareholder backing. The company's stock...

Heirs Insurance threw the first-ever Travel Festival at Harbour Point in Lagos, and thousands showed up to talk about making African travel less of a nightmare. Ambassadors from Brazil and Angola joined CNN's former senior editor Stephanie Busari on a panel pushing for easier visa processes and...

Mike Chimombe told the court he supports three wives and 15 kids who are all underage, and he used to pull in between 15 and 20 grand monthly before getting arrested. The guy dropped out after O-Level and jumped into politics while running multiple businesses, and he claims ownership of two...

Leadway Assurance teamed up with the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, the National Agricultural Development Fund, and Verdure Climate to push agricultural insurance and climate risk solutions in Nigeria. The high-level forum focused on ways to boost lending to farmers through...

Apple just lost Alan Dye, the guy who ran their user interface design squad since way back, and he bounced to Meta for what sounds like a fat paycheck. Dye handled some pretty big stuff like the iPhone X look, watchOS, that pill-shaped Dynamic Island thing, iOS 26 with the Liquid Glass effect...

IO Interactive dropped the first episode of their Behind the Light dev diary series for the upcoming James Bond game that hits PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S in March. Gameplay director Andreas Krogh and senior level designer Thomas Pulluello talked about what players can expect, and the devs...

Micron just pulled the plug on their consumer RAM and SSD stuff under the Crucial brand because AI data centers are throwing stupid money at memory right now. The company said they'll keep shipping consumer products through February, but after that, everything goes to enterprise customers who...

The Skyblivion crew pushed their launch past the original target after realizing they bit off more than they could chew. Project Lead Rebelzize said the total conversion mod that recreates Oblivion inside Skyrim's engine will drop sometime next year instead, with the Imperial City being the main...

Embark Studios dropped ARC Raiders, and it apparently crushed the Steam charts for total copies moved, hitting 7.7 million sales across PC and consoles. The third-person extraction shooter beat out a bunch of indie games like RV There Yet and Peak, which is pretty wild for a new multiplayer...

NVIDIA's CFO Colette Kress shut down bubble talk at a UBS conference, saying the industry is just switching from CPU-heavy setups to GPU-based accelerated computing. She mentioned Team Green has seven different chips working together versus the single-product ASIC approach, and CUDA keeps them...

ASUS pulled their ROG RTX 5090 Matrix cards from Swedish retailers after discovering some unspecified quality problems with the $4,000 limited-edition GPU. The company plans to ship a revised version, but nobody knows when that's happening or what exactly went wrong with the original batch...

MSI dropped AGESA BIOS version 1.2.8.0 for some X870E and B850 boards like the MPG X870E Edge Ti WiFi, MPG X870E Carbon WiFi, and MAG B850M Mortar, claiming it fixes memory compatibility. At least one person on Chiphell said their X870E Carbon WiFi bricked after the update and kept crashing...

Monster Hunter Wilds producer Yuya Tokuda admitted at the PlayStation Partner Awards that the game launched way easier than it should have been, and he wants people who bounced off it to give it another shot. The team apparently overdid the accessibility tweaks after studying where beginners got...

NVIDIA claims its GB200 NVL72 cluster delivers 10 times better performance than the older Hopper setup when running Mixture of Experts models like Kimi K2, which is a 32-billion-parameter open-source thinking model. The breakthrough came from a co-design approach that splits token batches across...

Sandfall Interactive dropped its first-ever game and it absolutely crushed the competition on Game Pass, beating out even the surprise Oblivion remaster that landed the same week. Creative director Guillaume Broche said the studio was super nervous about launching their debut title, but Xbox...

Samsung dropped trademark filings for something called DeepPix in America, the EU, and Argentina, which looks like a brand-new camera sensor lineup that could eventually replace the ISOCELL branding they have been using since 2013. The Argentina paperwork specifically calls it a CMOS image...

Sony dropped MLB The Show Mobile as a free-to-play game exclusively in the Philippines for testing, with San Diego Studio building the entire experience from scratch for touchscreen controls and card-based team building. The company might be waiting to see how it performs before launching...

Apple's App Store revenue growth got cut in half since the summer, according to Sensor Tower data that Goldman Sachs analyzed, dropping from 12 percent year-over-year expansion down to just 6 percent. The gaming category that makes up 44 percent of store spending actually shrank by 2 percent...

Helldivers 2 just got a massive storage diet after Nixxes helped Arrowhead slash the PC install from 154GB down to 23GB, saving players about 131 GB of precious drive space. The devs measured how many people still run the game on ancient spinning hard drives and found only 11 percent of the...