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ABUJA – The Nigeria Police Force has taken the killers off the streets. In a powerful display of justice delivered, the NPF today publicly paraded the twelve suspects directly connected to the cold-blooded armed robbery that claimed the lives of Arise TV reporter Somtochukwu Maduagwu and security guard Barnabas Danlami. The brutal attack, which shattered the peace at Unique Apartments, Katampe Extension on September 29, has been met with an uncompromising response. Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Benjamin Hundeyin, declared the arrests were the direct result of a “coordinated, intelligence-driven investigation” that hunted down the perpetrators in the wake of the tragedy. “We have them,” the announcement effectively stated, naming the twelve individuals now in custody: Shamsudeen Hassan, Hassan Isah (22), Abubakar AlKamu a.k.a. Abba (27), Sani Sirajo a.k.a. Dan Borume (20), Mashkur Jamilu a.k.a. Abba (28), Suleiman Badamasi a.k.a. Dan-Sule (21), Abdulsalam Saleh a.k.a. Na-Durudu,...

The city held its breath, and then, it moved on. But in the silent spaces between the headlines, a different story lingers—one not of faceless crime, but of a life stolen and the chilling, ordinary details of its ending. It was a night like any other for Sommie Maduagwu, a reporter whose voice had told so many of the city’s stories. Now, her own story was being rewritten in the most brutal of ways. The suspects, now twelve names in police custody, have offered confessions that are not just admissions of guilt, but shards of a heartbreaking mosaic. One of them, Sani Sirajo, the driver, paints a scene of such devastating futility it steals the air from your lungs. He was seated in the car, he says, a passive spectator to the horror unfolding. And then he saw her. Somto. Desperate, terrified, clinging to life from the balcony of the three-storey building. In that moment, something in him broke from the script of the robbery. He says he ran. He ran upstairs, not to harm, but to hold. He ...

A photograph from a hospital room tells a quiet story of resilience. In it, Felix Agu, the Werder Bremen defender, offers a gentle, tired smile to the camera. His leg, now surgically repaired, rests elevated—a temporary anchor holding him fast to a new and unexpected path. This single image, shared by his club, is the first page in a new chapter, one that began with a challenge and now continues with quiet courage. The injury, a complex high ankle sprain known as a syndesmosis ligament injury, occurred during a fierce Bundesliga contest against St. Pauli. In a moment, the dynamic rhythm of the game was replaced by the sobering silence of physical setback. Further assessments confirmed the severity, setting in motion a journey that every athlete hopes to avoid but must learn to navigate. The successful surgery marks the crucial first victory in his road back. It was a procedure to mend not just ligaments, but to rebuild a dream temporarily deferred. The most poignant cost of this reco...

In the silent, algorithmic heart of Nigeria’s fiscal machinery, a sobering transaction was recorded. It was not a single, dramatic event, but a slow, persistent exodus—a river of capital flowing not toward the fertile fields of infrastructure, the humming classrooms of education, or the sterile halls of healthcare, but into the deep, insatiable reservoirs of debt. The second quarter of 2025, spanning April to June, saw the nation allocate a staggering ₦1.707 trillion merely to service the interest and principal of its domestic borrowings. This figure, a cold, precise monument of ₦1,707,087,151,475.90, represents the tangible cost of a balancing act perpetually teetering on the edge of sustainability. The story of these three months is told not in a steady hum, but in a percussive rhythm of fiscal strain. It began with a thunderclap in April, a single month that consumed ₦805.31 billion, a sum so vast it could dwarf the annual budgets of smaller nations. This was the moment a significa...