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Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has criticized Nigeria’s proposed 2025 budget, calling it inadequate for addressing the nation’s economic challenges and fostering sustainable growth. In a statement on Sunday, Abubakar described the budget as a continuation of “business-as-usual” fiscal practices that increase Nigeria’s external debt burden.   “The 2025 federal budget, amounting to N48 trillion with a revenue forecast of N35 …

The Katsina Community Watch Corp (CWC) has rescued six girls kidnapped by bandits.    The victims were abducted by bandits in Walawa community, Sukuntuni district in Kankia Local Government Area of the state.    Crisis and conflict journalist, Bakatsine, who confirmed the development on Saturday, December 21, 2024, said the security operatives ambushed the bandits in their hideout and rescued …

Men of the Ogun state police command have arrested one Taiwo Yemitan, a suspected r!tualist, found with a fresh human head and dismembered body parts of a female victim in Lafenwa area of Abeokuta.     Disclosing this to newsmen, the command’s spokesperson, SP Omolola Odutola, in a statement released on Sunday, December 22, explained that the 45-year-old suspect was …

The Commissioner of Police in Anambra State, CP Nnaghe Itam, has put the de@th toll recorded at the stampede that occurred during Christmas rice distribution to the less-privileged by a philanthropist at his Okija home on Saturday, December 21, at 22.     In a statement released today December 22, the state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Tochukwu Ikenga, …

An attempt by an import and export businessman, Olisaka Chibuzo Calistus to smuggle 256 wraps of cocaine weighing 6 kilograms into the country through the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, MAKIA, Kano, has been thwarted by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA.   A statement released by the spokesperson of the anti-drug agency, Femi Babafemi, says the …

A poultry farmer, Jimoh Tunji Abdulqadir, has d!ed in the custody of the Kwara State Police Command after he was allegedly tortured to d3ath.   The victim was reportedly arrested on Friday, December 20, 2024, following a complaint by a client over a N200,000 debt that he owed.   A family source said the police told them that the deceased …

A South African man, Mlondi Cele, k!lled his 21-year-old girlfriend, Bongeka Makhathini and their 3-year-old son, Okuhle, over alleged cheating.      LIB reported that the incident happened in Mgababa, KwaZulu-Natal on Thursday, December 19, 2024.      The man, who committed suicide after the double murder, reportedly claimed that Bongeka had cheated on him and that Okuhle was fathered …

A pregnant woman was crushed to d3ath after a bus crashed into a residential building in Niger State.    The incident happened on Saturday, December 21, 2024, in Lambata, Gurara local government area of the state.    It was gathered that the commercial bus was on its way from Lagos State en route to Kano State when it ran into …

An Indian woman, Tanya Kumar, has called out close family members and friends who moved on so quickly three days after the funeral of her 20-year-old daughter, Tishaa.   Tanya, the wife of a Bollywood actor-producer, Krishan Kumar, in an Instagram story on Saturday, December 21, 2024, said these close friends and family went back to posting their celebrations, dances, …

The Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Beecroft has  intercepted 19 suspected stowaways aboard Europe-bound vessels in Lagos State.   It was gathered that the stowaways, who had boarded the vessels under cover of darkness, concealed themselves in the rudder compartments in an attempt to illegally migrate to Europe.   Lieutenant Hussaini Ibrahim, the Base Information Officer, confirmed the development in a …