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The Nigerian budget office is pushing back hard against claims that the new tax laws were secretly altered. Director General Tanimu Yakubu issued a statement warning against "governance by speculation" following allegations from the House minority caucus that the recently enacted Tax Reform Acts...

Your phone's next signal could come from a satellite whizzing overhead. According to a new analysis, mobile networks by 2030 could integrate satellite links so seamlessly that users won't know if their call is routed through a cell tower or a spacecraft. This 6G vision aims to erase dead zones...

Nigeria's mining revenue has tripled in two years under new reforms. According to a statement from the Ministry of Solid Minerals Development, earnings jumped from 16 billion naira in 2023 to 38 billion in 2024, with projections to cross 70 billion naira this year. Minister Dele Alake, appointed...

NNPC's monthly profit jumped despite lower total revenue. The Nigerian National Petroleum Company reported a November profit after tax of 502 billion naira, up from 447 billion the previous month, even as its total earnings dipped to 4.358 trillion naira from 5.08 trillion. The state-owned...

Nigeria's balance of payments just swung hard into a huge surplus. The Central Bank of Nigeria reported a 4.6 billion dollar surplus for the third quarter of 2025, a sharp reversal from the prior quarter's deficit, driven by stronger trade performance and growing foreign investment. Key factors...

Nigeria's shipping sector had a mixed year with zero piracy but crushing costs. The country's maritime industry, under its new Ministry of Marine and Blue Economy, reported no pirate attacks on commercial ships in its waters and the wider Gulf of Guinea for 2025, alongside a ten to fifteen...

The Final Fantasy XIV director just heavily hinted at a Switch port. During a New Year event on Japanese servers, producer and director Naoki Yoshida responded to a fan question about bringing the MMORPG to Nintendo platforms with a teasing "Please look forward to it." While not a full...

Zimbabwe's president called for more hard work to meet national development goals. In a New Year's address, President Emmerson Mnangagwa rallied citizens and the diaspora to commit to the National Development Strategy 2, aiming for prosperity, inclusivity, and modernization under the Vision 2030...

NVIDIA's cloud service just dropped a bunch of new games for January. The GeForce NOW update added the newly released indie title My Winter Car alongside expanded store support for titles like Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden and Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, making them playable through Xbox...

TSMC's insane backlog is finally sending big clients to Samsung. With the Taiwanese chipmaker's advanced production lines completely swamped, companies like Meta, Qualcomm, and AMD are reportedly exploring Samsung Foundry as a viable alternative for future chips. This shift is driven less by...

That Trump-branded phone is just a marked-up Chinese handset facing more delays. Trump Mobile, a virtual network operator, has again postponed the launch of its T1 smartphone, missing its latest late 2025 deadline after initially planning an August release and still collecting hundred-dollar...

A ridiculously overclocked RTX 5090 got saved by a smart cable. A user on an overclocking forum reported that his heavily modified MSI RTX 5090 Ventus, pushed to draw over 1300 watts with a shunt mod and liquid cooling, was shut down by an ASRock 12V-2x6 connector cable before the GPU connector...

TSMC's 2nm node has been sold out for over a year despite a price hike. The chipmaking giant, facing massive AI-driven demand, has its entire 2026 capacity for the two-nanometer process fully booked, pushing it to build three extra facilities in Taiwan at a projected cost of 28.6 billion...

Chinese x86 chipmaker Zhaoxin wants its next CPU to punch at AMD's Zen 4 level. The company confirmed development of its KX-8000 series consumer processors, targeting high-performance desktops and embedded systems with clocks reaching 4 GHz, exclusive DDR5 memory support, and PCIe 5.0...

AMD's new laptop chip is basically a light refresh with a slightly better score. Benchmarks for the upcoming Ryzen AI 5 430, part of the Gorgon Point refresh series, show single and multi-threaded performance gains of around eight to nine percent over its predecessor, the Ryzen AI 5 330. The...

That ridiculous $1300 MSI motherboard actually hit DDR5-9100. The limited edition MEG X870E GODLIKE X, with only a thousand units made, paired with AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor to achieve a memory overclock of 8900 megatransfers per second, passing a stringent stability test. A user on a...

NVIDIA just quietly listed five new Blackwell GPU models. The company added PCI IDs for one GB110, three GB112, and one GB120 chip, hinting at updates beyond the current consumer GeForce RTX 50 series based on the GB200 family. These newly spotted identifiers likely point to further data center...

Samsung just cracked 360Hz on an ultrawide QD-OLED panel. The display giant announced mass production of a new 34-inch screen with a Vertical Stripe pixel layout, supplying it to partners like ASUS, MSI, and Gigabyte for monitors launching this year. This V Stripe structure arranges the red...

MSI's new monitors finally fix QD-OLED's annoying purple glow. The company just announced two 32-inch 4K gaming screens, the MPG 322UR QD-OLED X24 and the MAG 321UP QD-OLED X24, featuring a new panel with DarkArmor Film and Uniform Luminance tech to tackle common complaints. These updates use a...

Those audio nerds from INA GRM just dropped a wild new sound design toy. The French research group, originally started decades ago to mess with tape music, has used its decades of digital effects experience to launch GRM Tools Atelier, a software instrument for macOS that works like a modular...