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NATIONAL NLC, NECA, LP, others fire NASS for raising 2024 budget by N1.2trn.    2024 Budget: N20.3bn Allocated To Lawmakers' Aides, N9bn For N/Assembly Car Parks, Books.  2024 Budget A Display Of Tinubu Govt's Disdain For Nigerians – LP.  Kukah To Tinubu: Legitimacy Of Your Gov't Depends On Ending Mindless Killings.  Registrar confirms emigration of 10,697 medical laboratory scientists.  NASU demands 70 yrs retirement age for members.  Don’t ruin your future with hard drugs, Buhari tells youths.  Nigeria ‘ll get hotter before cooling – Pastor Adeboye.  CDS Offers Remedies to Insecurity.  EFCC  Invites former Minister, Farouq, over N37bn Laundered Funds.  BUSINESS 2024 economic outlook gloomy as analysts list weak links.  No directive to hike electricity tariff January 1 – Discos.  11 Companies With Combine N515.15bn Capitalisation Delist from NGX in One Year.  NPAN announces changes in newspaper cover prices.  FG targets one million auto gas conversions, lists economic bene

NATIONAL President promises to restore peace in Southeast.  Ganduje making no impact in APC – Lukman.  Unpaid salaries: FG’s insensitivity turning Nigeria into IDP camp, says PDP.  PDP Urges Tinubu to Account for Trillions of Naira Saved from Removal of Petrol Subsidy.  COP28: FG Spends N2.78bn On Estacodes, Airfares.  National Assembly passes N28.777 trillion 2024 budget.  Senate Summons Security Chiefs Over Plateau Killings.  Senate blames Plateau massacre on military intelligence failure.  Senate Approves Tinubu’s Request to Securitize N7.3trn Ways and Means.  120 bills passed second reading, 500 motions moved in six months - Speaker.  Why I pioneered PISE-P – Reps Deputy Speaker, Kalu.  Liberia’s national elections commission honours INEC chairman.  Experts fear loss of native languages, culture among urban dwellers.  Minister accused of meddlesomeness at Local Content Board.  Remi Tinubu visits Akeredolu family as Ohanaeze Ndigbo mourn gov.  Court denies application to stop N27bil

NATIONAL NIGERIA 2024: Why we’ll slide further into economic chaos.  2023: Year of hardship, killings, political intrigues, toughest presidential poll.  Labour Party Releases Timetable for February 3  Bye-elections, Warns against Patronising Fraudsters.  Focus on corrupt politicians, not APC tribal disputes – LP’s Osuntokun tells Nigerians.  Anyim Recounts Futile Efforts To Save Na’Abba.  Christian Pilgrims Commission congratulates new NAHCON Chairman, Jalal Arabi.  FG unveils 20 new motor parks eligible for 50% transport fares cut.   ICAN Mourns Ijewere.  We’ll give Akeredolu befitting burial — South-West govs.  Fight terrorists professionally with humility to end war in Northeast, tasks commander.  BUSINESS Naira gains 13%, ends 2023 at N907.11/$ in NAFEM.  Depreciation: Naira Set For Worst Year Since 1999 – Report.  Local investors' transactions in equities hit N2.9 trillion in one year.  NGX Group appoints Temi Popoola GMD/CEO-designate, as Onyema retires.  FX Liquidity Boost a

NATIONAL Time To End Heritage Of Poverty, Destitution In The North - Shettima.  FG set to unveil 200 tonne/day rice mill.  Traffickers sell Kano children for N500,000 in Lagos, Anambra, others. Police arrest 9 inter-state child trafficking syndicate members.  Mishandling Of CBN Investigation Report Can Create Distrust, Panic – Experts.  How Cyber-Attacks Exposed Nigeria’s IT Security Vulnerability In 2023.  Govs pay condolence visits to Akeredolu’s home in Ibadan.  Ohanaeze, Ngige mourn Akeredolu, describe him as great in-law, patriot.  Eight-year tenure policy: INEC retires 4 directors.   INEC promotes 55 directors, 5,141 others.  NRC Loses 150,000 Rail Clips To Vandalism - MD.  'He Was Pro-People,' Afenifere Leader Mourns Akeredolu.  Constabulary tarnishing police image, needs separate uniform – Arase.  Obaseki, Matawalle, Tuggar, Musa, Lagbaja Others Decorate 47 New Major Generals.  BUSINESS Hope rises for FG’s N26trn budget as oil price leaps to $81.11.  Your funds are safe

NATIONAL Tinubu seeks councils, monarchs’ support for devt.  Tinubu: Economy Undergoing Re-engineering for Prosperity of All.  At His Birthday Colloquium, Akume Assures Nigerians of Better Future.  Edu: President Has Approved Humanitarian Support for Plateau Attack Victims.  Ex-minister Denies Complicity in Alleged N37bn Fraud in Humanitarian Ministry.  Tears as former Speaker, Na’Abba, 65, dies, buried in Kano.  Jonathan mourns late Ondo Governor Akeredolu.  Sanwo-Olu, Oborevwori, Obaseki, others pay tributes as Akeredolu passes at 67.  INEC Sends 4 Directors On Compulsory Retirement.  How Cyber-Attacks Exposed Nigeria’s IT Security Vulnerability In 2023.  How To Ensure Successful Implementation Of School Feeding Programme — Experts.  Army chief, IGP tasked with curbing extortion on eastern roads.   Rakiya Abubakar: Steering NAFOWA in Its Service to Humanity.  BUSINESS FCCPC slams $110 million fine on BAT for violation.  MTNN becomes first African brand to win ‘International Airship A

NATIONAL Plateau Massacre: Messengers of death won’t escape justice – Tinubu.  Rivers crisis: Tinubu lauds Fubara’s statesmanship in rift with Wike.  20 governors meet with Tinubu in Lagos.  We must collaborate to ensure peace, stability, Tinubu tells governors.  Federal Workers Observe Christmas Without December Salaries.  Panel summons Lemo, others over acquisition of Union Bank.  Bye-elections: APC, PDP release timetables; Senate form is N20m.  N’Assembly to pass 2024 budget Saturday, rationalises delayed severance to legislative aides.  Nigeria May Beat 2030 Global Target for HIV Eradication, Says NACA.  Two months after, varsity teachers insist they're being denied four-month salary.  Air Strikes Destroy Six Illegal Refineries in Niger Delta Region.  Force PRO Adejobi nabs policemen extorting motorists along Lagos-Ibadan.  Police, ECAPI flag-off anti-crime youth carnival.  Smugglers Forfeit N3bn Vehicles In 9 Months Despite Ban.  BUSINESS Electricity: 7.1m customers on estimat