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Aiyedatiwa’s Education Award: When Destiny Comes Full Circle

By Olukayode Ajulo Yesterday, as I watched Governor Lucky Orimisan Aiyedatiwa receive a national award for his contribution to education, I found myself reflecting on the remarkable journey that…

  • Governor Aiyedatiwa honored for education contributions.
  • Former classmates and students defended his credentials.
  • Implemented teacher recruitment, new classrooms, and materials.

Tech

Meta Developing Compressed RAM 'CRAM' For Linux: Better Than ZRAM and Zswap?

Phoronix reports on a presentation this week by Meta engineer Gregory Price at the Linux Plumbers Conference in Prague: With today's memory shortages, high prices, and ever increasing memory capacity…

  • Meta engineer Gregory Price introduces Compressed RAM (CRAM) at Linux Plumbers Conference.
  • CRAM offers hardware-offloaded compression for Linux, potentially outperforming ZRAM and Zswap.
  • CRAM maintains cacheline/byte access to compressed memory, with read-only data as fast as raw DRAM.

Business

Starter homes are getting harder to find. These 20 cities are bucking the trend.

The share of starter homes has been falling in the US. But some cities are bucking that trend. Here are the best cities for starter homes.

  • Fewer than a quarter of large metro areas are dominated by starter homes.
  • 20 cities increased their share of starter homes between 2019 and 2026.
  • Cities like Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Nashville offer more starter homes at attainable prices.

Finance & Markets

SEC DG warns shortage of credible issuers could inflate asset prices

The Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Dr Emomotimi Agama, has warned that a shortage of credible issuers in Nigeria’s capital market could drive up the prices of…

  • Nigeria's SEC warns insufficient credible issuers may cause asset price inflation
  • Dr Emomotimi Agama emphasizes need for long-term, income-generating assets
  • Capital market masterplan aims to expand market from N250 trillion to N750 trillion
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