BREAKING: Vigilante Member Arrested With Pump-Action Gun Hidden In Bag Of Rice For Robbery, Watch The Anambra State Police Command has said that its operatives arrested a member of a local vigilante group who, while trying to escape with a pump-action gun to join an armed robbery gang for robbery activities. The Public Relations Officer of the Command, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, who made this known in a statement issued in Awka, the state capital on Tuesday, said that the suspect is 25-year-old Enediong Bassey, a native of Ikono Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. According to Ikenga, Bassey was…
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BREAKING: Benue On Fire, Villagers Flee Over Massive killings Residents of several villages in Katsina-Ala and Logo local government areas of Benue State yesterday fled their homes after gunmen killed many persons during a raid. Sources in the affected communities said at least 30 people were gunned down and many others injured. The villages, which were invaded on Sunday and in the wee hours of yesterday, had been attacked several times by local militias in the past. Locals said 10 bodies were recovered from different Katsina-Ala villages; while 20 deaths were recorded in Logo area bringing the total number of…
Tinubu’s Minister Says More Borrowing Needed, Despite N134trillion Debt The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun, has claimed that the current administration of Bola Tinubu needs more borrowings to fund its budget even though some Ministries, Departments, and Agencies have surpassed their revenue target. The minister mentioned this during an interactive session of the Senate Joint Committees on Finance and National Planning and Economic Affairs on the 2025-2027 Medium-Term Expenditure Framework/Fiscal Strategy Paper. Despite over N134trillion public debts which the Nigerian government currently amassed, the minister said the borrowing needed to be done productively and…
BREAKING: Port Harcourt Refinery Begins Production After Several Delays The Port Harcourt Refinery is finally set to start production After several delays, Ibom Focus has learnt. Checks revealed that the Port Harcourt Refinery has missed seven deadlines for commencing production as of October 2024. The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) had set multiple dates for the refinery’s operational start, including promises made in March, August, and September 2024, all of which passed without fulfillment. However, in a message from an impeccable source, the NNPC said: “Today (Tuesday) marks a monumental achievement for Nigeria as the Port Harcourt Refinery officially…
JUST IN: Petrol Price Crash Again Nigeria’s petroleum marketers said that the Premium Motor Spirit (Petrol) price may be reduced to between N900 and 1000 per litre by this year’s Yuletide with the intervention of Dangote Refinery. The President of the Petroleum Products Retail Outlet Owners Association, PETROAN, Billy Gillis-Harry, and the spokesperson of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, Chinedu Ukadike, disclosed this in separate interviews on Monday. This comes as Dangote Refinery on Sunday reduced its ex-depot petrol price by N20 to N970 from N990 per litre. The company had explained that the move was to appreciate…
A Day After Suffering From Health Scare Bishop TD Jakes Sues Fellow Pastor For Defamation Following S3x Abuse Allegations Popular United States’ preacher, Bishop Thomas Dexter (T.D.) Jakes is in stable condition a day after suffering a medical emergency during a sermon — but the mega-church pastor is facing another hurdle related to sex abuse allegations. Jakes, 67, has filed a defamation lawsuit against Duane Youngblood, a fellow pastor who claimed Jakes tried to s3xually assault him when he was 18 or 19 years old, according to The Post. Youngblood made the explosive claims against the popular motivational speaker on…
Lady Lands In Big Tr0uble For Failing To Visit A Man After Collecting T-fare A Nigerian lady was left in shock after a man declared her “wanted” and posted her photo online, accusing her of collecting ₦5,000 for transport fare without visiting his house. The incident, which has been trending on TikTok, began when the woman revealed her identity and shared a post from the man. In the post, the man alleged that she had taken the transport fare but failed to honor their agreement to visit his home. He went further by posting her name and photo online to…
Four Students Caught Having F|vesome With 17-year-old Girl The Adamawa State Police Command has apprehended four minors for allegedly gang rapiπg a 17-year-old girl. SP Sulaimato Yahayo Ngurojo, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, said the suspects Sukari Matthew, Corlins Cambull, Barnabas Simon, and Ferdinand Matthew, were all students of Government Secondary School Sugu in Ganye Local Government Area. He said the Commissioner of Police, Dankombo Morris, had ordered that the suspects be taken into protective custody pending the outcome of the investigation and legal advice from the office of the Director of Public Prosecution. According to the…
Women Protest Over Husbands Hundreds of Women of Effium and Ezza-Effium communities in Ohaukwu local government area of Ebonyi State have staged a peace protest and called for the immediate release of their husbands and children languishing in prison over the lingering communal crisis between the two neighbouring communities. The women alleged that hundreds of people from the two communities were arrested and remanded in prisons in the communal crisis that commenced in 2021. The women also alleged that a total of 262 persons are currently in the prison custody awaiting trial, adding that out of the number, 177 are…
2025 Budget Will Reflect The Core Needs Of The People; Says Hon. Ekpenyong Hon. Surv. Iniobong Ekpenyong, The Chairman of Uruan Local Government Area, has promised to ensure that the 2025 Budget for Uruan Local Government reflects the core needs of the people. Hon. Ekpenyong made this known during the stakeholder’s engagement exercise on the Local Government Budget process at Idu. He said that the Local Government, just like states, is under a constitutional obligation to produce a budget, which is the reason he called for the engagement of stakeholders to make inputs. The council helmsman noted that the engagement…