BREAKING: Niger Delta Begins Legal Process For Self-determination Information reaching IBOM FOCUS that Niger Delta Begins Legal Process For Self-determination The Forum for Ethnic Nationalities of Niger Delta says it has begun legal process for the actualisation of self-reliance, saying that the law by which the region was conscripted into, forced contraption in Nigeria had long elapsed. The region lamented that the three per cent allocated to host communities from the operating cost of the oil companies, grazing reserves among others laws/bill were act of internal colonisation against the region. The convener of the forum, Kester Tawari, who spoke in…
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Buhari’s Insistence On Colonial Grazing Routes Shows He’s Mentally Unstable – Wole Soyinka Blows Hot Would Soyinka says Buhari’s Insistence On Colonial Grazing Routes Shows He’s Mentally Unstable Popular Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka has queried President Muhammadu Buhari’s insistence on establishing grazing routes around the country despite public outcry against the policy. He said the president may be suffering from “mental delusion.” “It’s like there’s some delusion about this thing, a kind of mental delusion about this thing. What is it?” Mr Soyinka asked, as he addressed a press conference in Lagos on Friday. Mr Soyinka said Mr Buhari may…
BREAKING: Bandits Releases Fresh conditions For Peace In Katsina Information reaching IBOM FOCUS Bandits Releases Fresh conditions For Peace In Katsina A notorious banditry kingpin in Katsina State, Usman Idris, aka ‘Ruga Kachallah’, is asking for compensation for his burnt house and grains and the arrest of his wives as the condition for ending his criminal activities in the state. But the police have responded that they are not interested in negotiating with Mr Kachallah because he had publicly renounced banditry on four previous occasions but had gone back to his old ways each time. Mr Kachallah is believed to…
Gov Lalong Gets 14-Day Ultimatum To End Killings Why Gov Lalong gets 14-Day Ultimatum To End Killings Information reaching IBOM FOCUS that Gov Lalong gets 14-Day Ultimatum To End Killings The Plateau State House of Assembly has given Governor Simon Lalong two weeks to address the security challenges bedeviling the state. Philip Dasun, Chairman, House Committee on Information, conveyed the position of the legislators when he briefed reporters in Jos. Mr Dasun said that the assembly would know the next line of action after the two-week ultimatum. “As an assembly with people at heart, we call on Plateau citizens to…
Father Kills 7-Year-Old Daughter To Avenge Wife’s Infidelity Information reaching IBOM FOCUS that Father Kills 7-Year-Old Daughter To Avenge Wife’s Infidelity Her name is Favour. The last time she set her eyes on her mother was in December 2019, when she was barely five years old. With tears in her eyes, her mother hugged her, promising to come back for her. Little Favour apparently thought her mother was just stepping out of their Ikorodu home, in Lagos, to return later in the day , as had been the case. But her mother was leaving the shores of Nigeria, in search…
JUST IN: Police Killed Massive IPOB, ESN Members In Imo After IGP Directive Information reaching IBOM FOCUS that Police Killed Massive IPOB, ESN Members In Imo After IGP Directive An unspecified number of the Eastern Security Network and Indigenous People of Biafra members, including one of their leaders have been killed in a gun battle with the operatives of the Imo State Police Command. The members of the security wing of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) group, were killed on Friday during a raid carried out on their camps in Imo State by police operatives at Akata community in…
Total Nigeria Plc Changes Name, Gives Reason Why Total Nigeria Plc Changes Name Information reaching IBOM FOCUS that Total Nigeria Plc Changes Name Shareholders of Total Nigeria Plc, the downstream subsidiary of TotalEnergies in Nigeria, approved its change of name to Total Energies Marketing Nigeria Plc. The approval was given at the company’s extraordinary general meeting in Lagos. The company’s Chairman, Stanislas Mittelman, represented by Mr Rufai Sirajo, appreciated the shareholders for their continued support to the company, as it began its transition towards achieving the net-zero target by 2050. “I hereby move that the memorandum and articles of association of…
FG’s N5,000 Cash Transfer To Help Poor Graduates Out Of Poverty FG’s N5,000 Cash Transfer To Help Poor Graduates Out Of Poverty The Ogun State Government has said the disbursement of N5,000 by the federal government is meant to help poor graduates and other indigents out of poverty. “It is basically to help the poor graduate from poverty, prevent the poor and the vulnerable from sinking further into poverty and build resilience to withstand shock and risks,” the state’s Commissioner for Special Duties Femi Ogunbanwo said at the flag-off of the federal government’s Conditional Cash Transfer programme in Ogun on…
Photo: Angry Man Sets 3 Churches Ablaze Because He Is Still Poor And Pastors Keep Preaching Prosperity Information reaching IBOM FOCUS that Angry Man Sets 3 Churches Ablaze Because He Is Still Poor And Pastors Keep Preaching Prosperity A young man, 21 has found himself in the grips of the police after he reportedly set ablaze three churches because he is still poor. The incident is said to have happened in Uganda in Kasokoso Kira Municipality in Wakiso District, precisely. The young man identified as John Reagan Ngobi after his arrest explained his actions on why he set the three…
FG Set To Punish Hate, Fake Preaching Clerics Information reaching IBOM FOCUS that FG Set To Punish Hate, Fake Preaching Clerics Federal Government has disclosed its plans to go after religious leaders using their pulpits to propagate hate speeches and to also invite the people either against one another or against the government. The government statement disclosed that the Police and other security agencies would soon go after such religious and community leaders some of whom command massive and high loyalty and followership. Secretary to Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, who disclosed the information at the third quarterly meeting…