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The Cross River State Government has taken its July–August 2026 landslide and flood disasters to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) COP17 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, seeking $25 million in international support for emergency response, ecological restoration and long-term resilience. The state government made the call in its proposed Cross River Restore Hope Initiative report currently being pitched to potential investors and partners at the COP17 in Mongolia by two members of the Cross River State House of Assembly, Martins Achadu, Chairman House Committee on Education and Vice Chairman Committee on Environmental Matters and Catherine Ubi, Clerk of the…

UEFA has set September 2 as the deadline for clubs to submit their List A squads for the 2026/27 Champions League league phase, with clubs allowed to register a maximum of 25 players. According to UEFA on its website on Monday, List A must be submitted by clubs and subsequently verified and validated by their respective associations by 23:59 CET on Wednesday, September 2, 2026. The governing body said clubs must comply with the squad-size limit and locally trained-player quota when submitting their lists for the competition. “Clubs are entitled to register a maximum of 25 players on List A…

The European Central Bank (ECB) is defending the privacy design of its planned central bank digital currency (CBDC).In an Aug. 10 interview published Monday, ECB Executive Board member Piero Cipollone said the digital euro’s design would limit the amount of transaction information available to the central bank.“The Eurosystem would not be able to identify the users making or receiving payments,” Cipollone said.Cipollone said only banks involved in transactions would be able to identify users, including for anti-money laundering purposes, while the Eurosystem would not be able to directly link specific individuals to digital euro payments. Meanwhile, offline digital euro transactions…

Hayden Panettiere‘s estranged mother is speaking out about how the late actress allegedly treated the physical and emotional pain she was in prior to her shocking death. “She was in pain,” Lesley Vogel told The New York Times in an article published on Sunday, August 23, recalling time she says she spent with Panettiere in Los Angeles one year ago. “She was afraid. She couldn’t physically function properly.” Vogel claimed she took Panettiere to various doctors and tried massage and acupuncture treatments in an effort to treat the “pins in needles” feeling she had in her lower extremities, which made…

The African Action Congress (AAC) governorship candidate in Lagos State, Oluwadamola Sol-Nuyi, has rejected Deputy Governor Obafemi Hamzat’s advice to young workers struggling with high rents to consider living with their parents, relatives or sharing accommodation. In a statement shared with PREMIUM TIMES on Monday, Mr Sol-Nuyi stated that the advice amounted to an acknowledgement of Lagos’ housing crisis rather than a solution to it. Mr Hamzat, who is also the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), gave the advice during a question-and-answer session on Nigeria Info FM recently.  He was responding to a question about how a…

Nigerian stocks reported a further slide last week, strained by profit-taking in energy and bank stocks. Equities are generally seeing a retreat as some investors exit their positions to take advantage of accumulated gains in a market that has delivered a 53.8 per cent yield so far this year. “We expect the equities market to remain volatile this week, with the overall performance tilted towards the negative,” Meristem Securities said in a note ahead of the week. “The mixed reaction to recent H1:2026 earnings could also keep investors cautious, with further profit-taking likely in stocks where valuations have moved ahead…

Edo Queens will begin their quest for a return to the CAF Women’s Champions League on Monday when they face AS Garde Nationale of Niger in their opening Group B fixture of the 2026 WAFU B qualifying tournament in Burkina Faso. The encounter is scheduled for 6pm at the Stade du 4 Août in Ouagadougou, with the reigning Nigeria Women’s Football League champions aiming to make an early statement in a group that promises a stern test. Having already conquered the WAFU B region in 2024, Edo Queens arrive with valuable experience of the competition and will be targeting another…

Sokoto State Government has donated over N100m and 408 bags of assorted food items to families affected by bandit attacks and the recent boat accident in Wurno and Goronyo Local Government Areas of the state. The intervention was disclosed on Monday when a high-powered government delegation led by the state APC leader and former governor, Senator Aliyu Wamakko, visited Dinawa, Birjingo and Gorau communities to condole with the victims’ families. At Dinawa, families of the seven persons killed in a bandit attack received N1m each, alongside two bags each of maize and millet and one bag of rice. The five…

GrapheneOS, an open source version of Android that prioritizes security and privacy, has detailed its plans for supporting Motorola smartphones. Official support is set to arrive next year, starting with traditional flagships, before rolling out to Motorola’s foldable phones and perhaps cheaper models, eventually.In a Mastodon thread, the GrapheneOS Foundation announced that it will initially support a Motorola slab flagship phone, but will later support both Razr Fold and Razr Ultra foldables — the latter of which would be the first flip phone to officially run GrapheneOS.Graphene has always had stringent security standards when it comes to hardware. The organization…

Bitcoin (BTC) starts the final week of August near its highest levels since mid-May as its bear-market recovery reaches a critical stage.Key points:Bitcoin sees a weekly candle close above its 50-week exponential moving average (EMA) for the first time since November 2025.Amid its best August gains in almost a decade, BTC/USD returns investor cohorts to net profit, while new money enters at $73,000.Fed chair Kevin Warsh is in the spotlight ahead of the Jackson Hole symposium.US PCE data will be released on Wednesday as markets continue to respond to last week’s US Treasury debt buyback.Investor capital returns to exchange-traded products…