“Until I Went To The University In England Before I Realised What Car Horns Are Meant For, Not What People Think In Nigeria”, Says Reno Former aide of Ex-president Goodluck Jonathan, Mr. Reno Omokri, Says he has never known what car Horns is meant for… According to him, It was not until I went to university in England that I realised car horns are meant for emergencies. Throughout my time in Nigeria, I thought car horns were meant to make the car in front of you move faster, or to call the gateman to open the gate. In fact, in…
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$2 Million Bribe: Senate President Bags Chieftaincy Title Despite $2 Million Bribe, information reaching Ibom Focus that Senate President Bags Chieftaincy Title The President of the Senate Ahmad Lawan, has landed himself a chieftaincy title in a southwestern Ekiti town, despite currying a $2 million bribe to pass the disputed Petroleum Industry Bill. Mr Lawan and six other Nigerians are to be conferred with chieftaincy titles of Iyin-Ekiti, in Irepodun/Ifelodun Local Government Area. Oba Adeola Ajakaiye; the Oluyin of Iyin-Ekiti, at a news conference in Iyin-Ekiti on Friday, said the conferment of titles on Mr Lawan and others was in…
REVEALED: Military Colleagues Raise Ransom Secretly For Major Abducted By Bandits For 17 Days Information reaching Ibom Focus that Military Colleagues Raise Ransom Secretly For Major Abducted By Bandits For 17 Days Some friends and colleagues of Major Christopher Datong, who has spent 17 days in the captivity of the bandits who attacked the Nigerian Defence Academy in Kaduna State, are making frantic efforts to rescue him, including raising a ransom. Datong’s military friends are keeping their ransom efforts as anonymous as possible in order not to incur punishments from the military authorities which are still bent on an obviously…
Get AK47 Rifles To Defend Yourselves, Gov Ortom Tells farmers Information reaching Ibom Focus that Gov Ortom tells farmers to Gets AK47 rifles to defend yourselves Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom says farmers should be allowed to carry AK-47 rifles to protect themseleves against criminal herdsmen. Yoruba Nation agitators warned against holding rally in Sunday Igboho’s hometown The governor said this while answering his questions from newsmen at the Makurdi airport in Benue on Friday, September 10, 2021. Orotom said a situation whereby herdsmen carried sophisticated weapons like AK-47 rifles and farmers are asked to defend themselves with cutlass and…
Nigerian Woman Shot Dead By Her Italian Husband For Filing Divorce Information reaching Ibom Focus that Nigerian Woman Shot Dead By Her Italian Husband For Filing Divorce Ibom Focus reports that Nigerian woman, Amenze Rita, 31 years has allegedly been shot dead by her husband in Italy. Ibom Focus learnt that Amenze was killed in front of her colleagues in the parking lot of Mf Mushroom, a company where she worked on Friday morning, September 10, in Noventa Vicentina. The suspect, Pierangelo Pellizzar, 61, laid an ambush for the deeased at about 7:30am and shot her four times, killing her…
Some Politicians Worse Than Bandits, Sheikh Gumi Blows Hot, Gives Reason Sheikh Gumi Blows Hot says Some Politicians Worse Than Bandits, Popular Kaduna base Islamic Cleric, Sheikh Ahmed Gumi, has said some politicians are worse than bandits as more Nigerians had been killed by the effect of mismanagement of resources than banditry. Gumi said this in an opinion piece on his Facebook page titled, ‘War has never been a solution anywhere, anytime’. According to the preacher, some Nigerians had died from cholera because of lack of clean potable water. He said, “Some of the politicians, who I see as urban-bandits,…
VAT: Despite Appeal Court Ruling, Wike Inaugurates New Tax Commission, Tells Them What To Do Information reaching Ibom Focus that Despite Appeal Court Ruling, Wike Inaugurates New Tax Commission, Tells Them What To Do Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike on Friday inaugurated the state’s Tax Appeal Commission shortly after the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal ordered maintenance of status quo in the collection of value added tax by state governments. The commission inaugurated by Mr Wike is saddled with the responsibility to ensure taxable persons and entities comply with the rules of the newly introduced Rivers VAT law. Mr…
Pregnant Woman Found Dead In Traditional Ruler’s Car Information reaching Ibom Focus that Pregnant Woman Found Dead In Traditional Ruler’s Car There was pandemonium at the premises of Edo State Specialist Hospital, Benin City on Thursday as the remains of a 27-year- old pregnant woman identified as Faith Aigbe was found locked in an SUV belonging to a traditional ruler, the Enogie of Uroho, Iguodala Ogieriakhi. The corpse was alleged to have been brought by the suspect who abandoned her and fled the scene when he discovered that the woman was dead. The scene drew a crowd at the health…
Pantami’s Fake Professorship Joins Other Intellectual Frauds Pantami’s Fake Professorship Joins Other Intellectual Frauds It emerged late last week that Communications and Digital Economy Minister Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami (or his agents) possibly instructed Zamfara State governor Bello Muhammad Matawalle to place an advertorial in the Daily Trust to congratulate Pantami on his “promotion to the Rank of Full Professor of Cybersecurity” by an unnamed university. (In the advertorial, Matawalle repeated the dishonestly hyperbolized claims Pantami cherishes and promotes, such as the claim that he has over 160 publications—which don’t show up in any scholarly repository—and that he was trained…
Final Year Student Dies While Celebrating After Writing Final Exams It was shock when Information reaching Ibom Focus that Final Year Student Dies While Celebrating After Writing Final Exams A level 400 student of the University of Education (UEW), Ghana, has passed on during a celebration after he finished writing his final exam. Sani Abdul Majeed was a student of the Department of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Sports. A video that has been shared on social media captures the moment Majeed sadly lost his life as he was somersaulting but ended up landing on a critical part of his…