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Bitcoin (BTC) has struggled to flip $80,000 into support in recent days, but bulls’ real challenge is still to come, new research says.Key points:Bitcoin long-term holders add to BTC price resistance below $86,000, Glassnode reveals.Buyer demand must overcome this area as Bitcoin struggles to advance beyond $80,000.Multiple key trend lines sit around spot price, increasing the implications of an eventual loss or reclaim.Glassnode: Key overhead liquidity structures sit between $81,000 and $86,000In the latest edition of its regular newsletter, The Week Onchain, crypto analytics platform Glassnode flagged multiple pools of coins that could be released into the market below $86,000.Of…

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African countries need better systems for tracking public debt and stronger parliamentary scrutiny of government borrowing, said some development experts said on Wednesday. They spoke at the sixth African Conference on Debt and Development (AfCoDD VI), organised by the African Forum and Network on Debt and Development (AFRODAD) in Nairobi, Kenya. Douglas Bitonda Kigabo, an economic affairs officer with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, stated that governments should publish information covering not only central government debt but also borrowing by sub-national governments and state-owned enterprises. Government guarantees and other liabilities that could eventually become public obligations should also…

Sunday Isuwa, Group News Editor of LEADERSHIP Newspaper, is set to launch a book examining the transformation of Nigeria’s newspaper industry in the digital era. The book, Digital Shift in Nigeria’s Newspaper Industry, will be launched on 29 October at the Conference Hall of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) headquarters in Jabi, Abuja. The event is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. Mr Isuwa said the book examines how technological advances are changing journalism in Nigeria, from newsroom operations and reporting practices to business models and the ways news organisations engage their audiences. The publication comes at a…

Two Nigerian sisters from Corby, United Kingdom, Stephanie and Isabel Offor, have celebrated a remarkable academic feat after graduating with First Class Honours in the same academic year. The Northamptonshire Telegraph reported on Wednesday that Stephanie studied mechanical engineering at the University of Leicester, while Isabel graduated from Nottingham Trent University’s Faculty of Law and Business, with both sisters achieving First Class Honours. According to the report, “Their achievement has become more than a family celebration. It is a moment that reflects the hopes of church families, cultural groups and wider communities in both Nigeria and the UK that watched…

South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb has reportedly won first-instance rulings in two lawsuits against its users to recover proceeds from Bitcoin it mistakenly credited to their accounts.The Seoul Central District Court ruled for Bithumb on Wednesday and Thursday in two of four lawsuits against users who sold Bitcoin mistakenly credited to their accounts, according to a Chosun Biz report.Thursday’s ruling concerned a claim for 194 million won ($140,000), while Wednesday’s covered a claim for 5 million won ($3,600). Two other lawsuits seeking about 14.8 million won ($10,700) and 500 million won ($362,000) remain pending.Both cases proceeded through service by public…

More than 100,000 of the late Dolly Parton’s fans have signed a petition calling for Nashville International Airport to be renamed in her honor. A Change.org petition originally started in January 2025 has gained renewed support amid the announcement of the country music icon’s death at age 80 following a brief battle with cancer on Tuesday, August 25. “Since her passing, tens of thousands of additional supporters have visited and signed this petition,” petition organizers Lydia Popovich and Dan Dion wrote on Tuesday. “The outpouring of support has reinvigorated our mission — to rename the Nashville International Airport to Dolly…

The Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim, has said that about 26,000 children enter custodial and remand facilities in Nigeria every year, with 74 per cent held in pre-trial detention and 68 per cent having no lawyer from their first contact with the justice system. Mrs Sulaiman-Ibrahim disclosed this in a keynote address on Tuesday at the 66th Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The conference, running from 21 to 28 August under the theme “Beyond Limits,” drew thousands of lawyers, judges and policymakers to the Yakubu Gowon Stadium…

As negotiations continue at the 17th session of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD COP17) in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, the challenge of financing land restoration remains central to efforts to tackle desertification, drought and land degradation. In this interview with PREMIUM TIMES on the sidelines of COP17 in Mongolia, Louise Baker, the Director of the UNCCD Global Mechanism, says African governments need to move beyond project-by-project funding and develop large, bankable landscape programmes capable of attracting public and private investment. At COP17, about $1.3 billion in new and pipeline finance has been announced for rangelands, underscoring growing interest in…

Obasanjo’s credit was never in danger and did not require Duke to vandalise everyone else’s contribution. Donald Duke’s recent account of Nigeria’s Paris Club debt deal bears little relation to the public record. In an interview published by SYMFONI TV on 22 August 2026, he accused Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala of taking “vain glory” for the relief. “It wasn’t her,” he said. “It was President Obasanjo.” He reduced her work to presidential “runs” and told her not to take credit. The Early Campaign and Its Limits Duke’s recollection ends conveniently where his own part becomes secondary. He remembers accompanying President Olusegun Obasanjo…