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Titan Trust Bank Limited (TTB) has brought to closure the deal enabling it to purchase a controlling stake in Nigeria’s second-oldest lender, Union Bank of Nigeria, the latter said Thursday in a regulatory filing, almost half a year after an agreement was reached by both parties. The lender, backed by a former Central Bank of Nigeria deputy governor, Tunde Lemo, set out to acquire 89.4 per cent interest in Union Bank from a pool of stakes from exiting major investors including British…

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter, which is scurrying Mars for signs of ancient life, completed record-breaking 25 flights in the tenuous atmosphere. When the tiny helicopter was sent to the one-way trip, along with its partner Perseverance rover, engineers had only planned for five flights. While space agencies usually set their goals conservatively to maximise their output, Ingenuity has surpassed expectations by continuing to send valuable data from the Red Planet to the ground stations. But that's not all! Ingenuity…

Russian subscribers have lost access to streaming giant Netflix in the latest pullout of a Western company over the conflict in Ukraine.The Netflix site and apps were no longer available from Friday and a Netflix spokesperson confirmed that subscribers no longer had access."This is the fulfilment of the withdrawal from the Russian market" announced in March, a Netflix spokesperson told AFP on Monday.The US-based platform announced in early March that it was withdrawing from Russia after Moscow sent thousands of troops…

An Assassin’s Creed player has beaten all 12 mainline games from the series without taking any damage. As reported by Kotaku, on April 11 the streamer Hayete Bahadori released the second half of his Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla no-damage run, which completed his 12-game series challenge that began on October 16, 2021. Bahadori told Kotaku that he set himself specific rules during his no-damage run, including making sure his characters’ health bars don’t fall below 100 per cent starting from the “first possible instance…

Russian subscribers have lost access to streaming giant Netflix in the latest pullout of a Western company over the conflict in Ukraine.The Netflix site and apps were no longer available from Friday and a Netflix spokesperson confirmed that subscribers no longer had access."This is the fulfilment of the withdrawal from the Russian market" announced in March, a Netflix spokesperson told AFP on Monday.The US-based platform announced in early March that it was withdrawing from Russia after Moscow sent thousands of troops…

Preparing for its first flight in 2023, Northrop Grumman has subjected a prototype of its B-21 Raider nuclear bomber to its first loads calibration test to verify the airframe's structural integrity as it moves through production to flight readiness.First begun in 2014, the B-21 program is tasked with producing a replacement for the US Air Force's fleets of B-52 Stratofortress, B-1 Lancer, and B-2 Spirit bombers as both the third leg of America's nuclear deterrent triad and as a heavy conventional bomber. Not much is…

A Volkswagen ID.4 GTX has set a Guinness World Record for the highest altitude achieved in an all-electric passenger vehicle. The ID.4 equipped with Monroe Intelligent Suspension CVSAe technology from Tenneco was driven by international adventure driver and multiple record holder, Rainer Zietlow. Volkswagen’s ID.4 began production in 2020 as the first all-electric crossover SUV donning the VW badge. Originally promoted as an EV “for the millions, not the millionaires,” this mass market vehicle has found a home…

Take-Two Interactive, the video game publisher that owns Rockstar, 2K, and Private Division, has completed its acquisition of Zynga, the mobile game developer behind the popular Facebook game FarmVille. On January 10, Take-Two announced it was going to acquire Zynga for $12.7 billion in its effort to expand to the mobile gaming market. On Monday, the company closed the deal without a hitch, successfully merging its gaming library with Zynga’s entire library of mobile games that have been downloaded more than 4…

After undergoing four days of trail, Amber Heard finished her testimony on Tuesday, defending herself from allegations of faking her abuse claims against ex-husband Johnny Depp. The testimony turned bitter when Depp`s attorney Camille Vasquez, accused her of lying and suggested that she was the true abuser. She played audio recordings of arguments between the couple and read-aloud love notes that Heard had written to Depp after the alleged assaults, reports Variety. "You weren`t scared of him at all, were you?" Vasquez…

Bam Margera has completed a year-long drug and alcohol treatment programme.The Jackass star has spoken publicly about his struggles with substance abuse and addiction in the past, and committed to a 12-month treatment programme back in 2021.Margera confirmed the news to TMZ, revealing that he is set to continue attending outpatient treatment sessions for months. A member of the Jackass crew since the early days of the programme, Margera was absent from the recent sequel, Jackass Forever.Margera claimed he was fired from…