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Late Lilo & Stitch star Daveigh Chase left behind an estate worth $400,000 despite reportedly living on the streets in Los Angeles prior to her death at age 35. Probate documents obtained by Us Weekly show that Daveigh’s mother, Cathy Chase, asked a Los Angeles Superior Court to appoint her administrator of her late daughter’s estate on Wednesday, July 8. Cathy specified that Daveigh left behind $400,000 in personal property but “no real property.” (TMZ was the first to report the news.) Cathy asked to become the administrator of her daughter’s estate because Daveigh was never married and had no…

As the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) prepares to meet, economists are divided over the plausible decision of the committee on benchmark interest rate. At the end of its 305th MPC meeting held from 19 to 20 May in Abuja, the MPC retained the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR), its benchmark interest rate, at 26.5 per cent. The decision followed a 50-basis-point reduction in February, when the committee lowered the MPR from 27 per cent to 26.5 per cent after keeping the rate unchanged at 27 per cent since November 2025. Explaining the May decision, CBN Governor…

Nigerian businesses maintained a positive outlook in June 2026 despite persistent macroeconomic challenges, with high taxes, interest rates and insecurity remaining their biggest operational concerns, according to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The findings are contained in the June 2026 Business Expectations Survey (BES) released by the CBN’s Statistics Department under the Economic Policy Directorate. The June 2026 BES was conducted between 8 and 12 June, covering 1,900 business enterprises across Nigeria. The regulator said the survey methodology was enhanced from April 2026 by replacing the previous three-point weighted diffusion index with a five-point scale to provide a more…

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission has reaffirmed its commitment to partnering with the Federal Ministry of Power to promote transparency, accountability, and integrity in the nation’s power sector. The Secretary to the Commission, Mr Clifford Oparaodu, made this known when he received the Minister of Power, Mr. Joseph Tegbe and top executives of the power ministry on a courtesy and familiarisation visit to the commission’s headquarters in Abuja on Monday. This was contained in a statement by the commission on Monday. The statement noted that while speaking during the visit, Tegbe described the ICPC as “one…

Bitcoin (BTC) should repeat history and put in a bear-market bottom when a classic indicator hits zero, a trader says.Key points:Bitcoin classic two-month stochastic RSI signals are valid this bear market, Max Crypto believes.The bear market will be over once the indicator reaches zero again.RSI divergences provided advance notice of the BTC price rebound beyond $64,000 this month.Bitcoin stoch RSI bottom signal “will happen again”In an X post at the weekend, Max Crypto went on record to forecast the end of the 2026 bear market when the stochastic relative strength index (RSI) hits a new swing low.Stoch RSI is a…

Us Weekly has affiliate partnerships. We receive compensation when you click on a link and make a purchase. Learn more! Typically, this particular style of bag is saved for evening occasions, but Mindy Kaling has convinced us to break out the look for daytime. Her small top-handle bag makes a serious statement even against the actress and producer’s bright yellow outfit. And we’re ready to bring the metallic piece to our own closets for the different seasons ahead. Kaling appeared on Good Morning America in a sunshine-colored suit, but still, our eyes went to her bag. The Chanel top-handle purse…

The Supreme Court has directed lawyers with appeals and motions scheduled for hearing between September and December 2026 to upload relevant court processes through the Nigerian Case Management System (NCMS). The uploading is a mandatory requirement under the new electronic filing system unveiled on 1 July by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Kudirat Kekere-Ekun. The court gave lawyers 30 days before their scheduled hearing dates to complete the uploading of the required documents. The directive was contained in a statement signed by the Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court, Kabir Akanbi. According to the statement shared with PREMIUM TIMES on…

Former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria and former presidential candidate, Kingsley Moghalu, has described Nobel Laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka as a national treasure and global icon, saying Nigeria should accord him greater national recognition in line with the treatment reserved for distinguished personalities in other countries. Moghalu stated this in a statement issued on Tuesday to celebrate Soyinka’s 92nd birthday, praising the literary giant’s enduring contributions to Nigeria, Africa and the global intellectual community. Soyinka, who became the first African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986, is widely regarded as one of the world’s…

South Korea plans to conduct a 2027 pilot linking tokenized government bonds to its institutional central bank digital currency (CBDC) infrastructure, moving sovereign debt tokenization from a proposal to an official government timeline. On Tuesday, the government unveiled its 2026 Economic Growth Strategy for the Second Half, which includes the plan. In addition to assigning a date for the pilot, the strategy said authorities would study how to make the Bank of Korea’s (BOK) CBDC infrastructure interoperable with other blockchains, enabling a potential connection between external distributed ledgers and the bank’s permissioned system. The project would test whether South Korea’s wholesale CBDC,…

Allie Eklund is breaking her silence — and sharing her side of the story — after ex Steven McBee Jr. tried to get her a percentage of Kacie Adkison’s skincare business while filming The McBee Dynasty: Real American Cowboys. “What happened in real life, off camera, was I was asked to be a part of the tallow business,” Allie, 29, exclusively tells Us Weekly, referring to Steven’s soon-to-be sister-in-law Kacie’s skincare business with products using beef tallow under the McBee Farms umbrella. Allie says she was “transparent” with both Kacie and Steven — the latter of whom she dated for less…