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Akwa Ibom State Government has published its second-quarter 2026 budget implementation report, but the three-page document leaves major gaps in its account of public spending. Missing details, the BudgIT Foundation says, make it difficult for citizens to determine where trillions of naira received by the government were spent. The finding places Akwa Ibom in a peculiar position: while 34 states published their Q2 2026 Budget Implementation Reports, BudgIT singled out Akwa Ibom for publishing a report that, despite being publicly available, contains “significant data gaps” that limit meaningful scrutiny of government expenditure. In its report, Half-Year BIR Status and Comparative Insights 2026/2025, BudgIT said publishing a…

Yusuf Gagdi, chairman of the House of Representatives ad hoc committee investigating the alleged establishment and operations of the Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council (PFIPC), has explained why the panel did not invite President Bola Tinubu’s Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, despite documents linking him to the controversial agency. Mr Gagdi, who represents Pankshin/Kanke/Kanam Federal Constituency of Plateau State, said the committee’s investigation was never designed to focus on Mr Gbajabiamila or any other individual but on how an agency without a valid legal foundation allegedly became integrated into the federal government’s administrative and financial systems. He clarified on Wednesday…

The Senate has assured Nigerians that the ongoing constitutional amendment process will be concluded before the expiration of the 10th National Assembly in June 2027, amid growing concerns that the exercise could suffer the fate of previous unsuccessful attempts at restructuring the country. The assurance followed fears in some quarters that the constitutional review process may not be completed before the 2027 general elections, raising concerns about another failed amendment exercise and the possible loss of billions of naira committed to the process. Critics have expressed concern that the ongoing amendment could be heading for another round of failure, particularly…

Jinger Duggar is opening up about her postpartum depression battle after welcoming her second daughter, Evangeline, in 2020. “I remember after having Evie, I had postpartum depression,” Duggar, 32, said on the Wednesday, September 2, episode of her eponymous podcast with husband Jeremy Vuolo, referring to their 4-year-old daughter. “It was a little bit later than I expected, too, [and] I was still nursing her, but I was so down. I could not figure out up from down, couldn’t clean my house, couldn’t get up much.” In addition to Evangeline, Duggar and Vuolo, 38, share daughter Felicity, 6, and son…

The traditional rulers are Obi of Onitsha, Alfred Achebe; the Traditional Ruler of Nnewi, Kenneth Orizu, both in Anambra, and Samuel Asadu, the Enugu State Chairman, Traditional Rulers Council. They made the call when the producer, directors and crew of the new Nollywood movie, “Properties of the Gods”, visited their palaces separately on Wednesday. They described the practice as discriminatory and inconsistent with the equality of human beings. They said the visit was to seek their blessings ahead of the movie’s nationwide cinema premiere. The movie – ‘Properties of the Gods’ The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the movie,…

Paris Saint-Germain and Inter Milan dumped former winners Eintracht Frankfurt and Wolfsburg out of the Women’s Champions League on Wednesday in dramatic final qualifying round ties. Sakina Karchaoui scored a brace as PSG bagged four goals in extra-time against 10-player Frankfurt with the game – and the tie – level after 90 minutes. Trailing 1-0 in Paris, the Germans were reduced to 10 players on 66 minutes after Australia forward Hayley Raso was dismissed for a second bookable offence. Yet Swede Rebecka Blomqvist equalised 10 minutes later to force extra-time, with the tie locked at 2-2 on aggregate. But Frankfurt…

Federal law enforcement officials, working with cybersecurity technology company CrowdStrike, announced action against entities behind malware that enabled the theft of $150,000 in cryptocurrency.In a Tuesday notice, the US Justice Department said it had disrupted the Sality botnet and malware in an international effort with Bulgarian, Hungarian and Romanian officials, as well as private sector partners CrowdStrike and the Shadowserver Foundation. US officials said that Sality was responsible for installing malware on compromised devices since 2003, resulting in crypto theft and cyberattacks. CrowdStrike reported that in the previous eight years, the entities behind Sality used EggJagger, a “clipjacking tool that monitors…

Pluto TV has tons of great movies and TV shows, and it only costs, well, nothing. Now that’s a value that can’t be beat. In September, the platform is bulking up its content library by significantly expanding its anime section with the English dub debuts of One-Punch Man and Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple, free streaming premieres of the hit films Smile and the 2024 Mean Girls musical remake with Reneé Rapp and live events like boxing on DAZN Ringside, WNBA action on ION, Grand Old Opry concerts and more. Watch With Us has curated a list of all the new Pluto…

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has declared that he remains in charge of the political structures in Rivers State and the FCT, vowing to deliver them to President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 presidential election. Mr Wike made the declaration on Wednesday during a media chat in Port Harcourt, where he described himself as the “General Commander of the Political Infantry” and dismissed the suggestion that only a sitting governor could control a state’s political structure. “You do not need to be governor before you can be in charge. I am the General Commander of the…

President Bola Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar If allegations examined during an investigation involving Atiku cannot be converted into a criminal conviction against Atiku, an in rem civil forfeiture proceeding cannot logically be converted into a criminal conviction against Tinubu. In each case, the responsible legal inquiry must be the same: Was the individual criminally charged? Was he prosecuted? Was he tried? Was a judgment of criminal conviction entered against him? Otherwise, political rhetoric cannot substitute for those questions. The continuing attempt by some political opponents of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to portray the 1993 civil forfeiture proceedings in the United…