Women Arrested For Selling Fuel To Bandits In President Buhari’s Home State Information reaching Ibom Focus that Women Arrested For Selling Fuel To Bandits In President Buhari’s Home State The police in Katsina State says it has arrested three women for allegedly selling fuel to bandits in a forest in the state. The police spokesperson in Katsina, Gambo Isah paraded the three suspects, Dija Umar, 50; Ummah Bello, 45; and Nusaiba Muhammad, 16, at the state police headquarters on Thursday. The police said the suspects were arrested along Katsina-Jibia Road. The suspects, who confessed to have committed the offence in…
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Police Dismiss Officer Who Killed 18-year-old Admission Seeker Information reaching Ibom Focus that Police Dismiss Officer Who Killed 18-year-old Admission Seeker The Lagos State Police Command has dismissed Sergeant Samuel Phillips, an officer who allegedly shot Monsurat Ojuade, an 18-year-old admission seeker in the Ijeshatedo area of Surulere, Lagos State. This was disclosed by the command’s spokesman, Adekunle Ajisebutu in a statement issued on Friday. Ajisebutu noted that Phillips was dismissed after the conclusion of his orderly room trial. He added that the dismissed policeman will be charged to court for murder. The statement reads: “This is to inform the…
Electronic Transmission Of Results, No Going Back – INEC Vows, Give Reasons Following the Electronic Transmission Of Results, INEC Vows says No Going Back The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), said it would not go back on electronic transmission of results from polling units in future elections unless the National Assembly enacts a new law to stop it from doing so. The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) for Ogun State, Mr Olusegun Agbaje, stated this at a news conference at the state INEC headquarters. According to Agbaje, who just resumed in as the REC, the INEC already had enough law that…
Lady Flees On Her Wedding After Finding Out Her Boyfriend Job Information reaching Ibom Focus that lady Flees On Her Wedding After Finding Out Her Boyfriend Job A wedding is a special and happy occasion meant to publicize and legalize the union of two people who are in love. Before a wedding, the partners are expected to have full knowledge and understanding of each other before exchanging vows and saying “I do”. A dramatic scene was witnessed in Kilifi county after a woman ran away at her wedding after realizing that her bridegroom was a taxi driver and not a…
Some Of Buhari’s Critics Come To Aso Rock For Dinner, Presidency Exposes Information reaching Ibom Focus that Some Of Buhari’s Critics Come To Aso Rock For Dinner Mr Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, has said some of the persons who vilify his principal publicly return to Aso Rock for dinner. The presidential spokesman said this while commenting on the return of Femi Fani-Kayode to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Fani-Kayode has been under fire since last week when the Chairman of APC National Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) and Governor of Yobe State,…
FG Move To Tax Non-alcoholic Drinks Information reaching Ibom Focus that FG Move To Tax Non-alcoholic Drinks Organised Labour in the Food and Beverage sector has raised the alarm over plans by the Federal Government to impose excise duty on non-alcoholic drinks, warning that such tax will cripple the sector. Under the aegis of Food, Beverage and Tobacco Senior Staff Association, FOTOB, Labour decried excessive taxation of the industry, arguing that should the government go ahead with the imposition of the excise duty, the sector could collapse. President of FOBTOB, Jimoh Oyibo, spoke at the Labour Writers Association of Nigeria,…
President Buhari Acting Like God, Nigerians Should Love Him More, Presidency Presidency says President Buhari Acting Like God, Nigerians Should Love Him More President Muhammadu Buhari’s media aide Femi Adesina has hailed his principal’s “divine attribute” as similar to God’s ways of doing things, saying Nigerians should like and “covet” him with love and praises. Mr Adesina on his Facebook page Thursday night said Mr Buhari embraced controversial politician Femi Fani-Kayode and accepted him in the ruling APC despite Mr Fani-Kayode’s years of frequent curses and insults directed at the president. “This President has a capacity to forgive, and forget.…
How Fani-Kayode Wished Buhari’s Son Death Ibom Focus brings to you How Fani-Kayode Wished Buhari’s Son Death The presidency has said that a former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, said unforgivable and unpardonable things against President Buhammadu Buhari prior to his (Fani-Kayode) recent defection to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. In a statement by President Buhari’s spokesman, Femi Adesina, the presidency said Fani-Kayode had, however, received mercy and forgiveness from the Nigerian leader. Fani-Kayode, who was widely criticised over his defection to APC, was however received last week into the party by President Buhari. However, in the statement, Femi…
Army Officer Who Threatened June 12 Protesters Loses Brother To Boko Haram Attack Information reaching Ibom Focus that Army Officer Who Threatened June 12 Protesters Loses Brother To Boko Haram Attack A Nigerian soldier, Abubakar A, who threatened to attack Nigerians on June 12 during the planned nationwide mega protests, has lost his brother in the army, identified only as Muhammad to a Boko Haram terrorists’ attack. Muhammad was sadly among the 25 soldiers killed by some Boko Haram elements in the Monguno area of Borno State on September 15, 2021. Sources said that the soldiers were on patrol to…
Landlord Throws Tenant’s 2-Months-old Child Down From Storey Building Over Rent Information reaching Ibom Focus that Landlord Throws Tenant’s 2-Months-old Child Down From Storey Building Over Rent A Facebook user Tari narrated the incident ” The man is mad, or might have taken things. House rent that is suppose to expire at the end of November but the landlord has been disturbing them to pay the money or pack out. They have told him to wait still November ending but he refused. Few days back he has brought a new tenant to check the house when their house rent has…