Author: Ibom Focus

Minister Dies In German Hospital Two Days After 56th Birthday Hamed Bakayoko, Ivory Coast’s Prime Minister, who was seen as a possible successor to President Alassane Ouattara, has died in a hospital in southwest Germany, two days after his 56th Birthday, the government said on Wednesday. A former media executive who turned to politics, Bakayoko acted as a negotiator and intermediary between warring factions as a prolonged civil conflict racked Ivory Coast from the early 2000s. A close ally of Ouattara, he was appointed as prime minister in July 2020 following the sudden death of his predecessor Amadou Gon Coulibaly,…

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UNBELIEVABLE: See Billions Of Naira Found In Tinubu’s Bank Records Hours After His File Was Declared Missing Over the previous month, the battle by President Muhammdu Buhari to get Nigeria rid of corruption is becoming fruitful. The Economic and Financial Crime Commission has always updated Nigerians and been doing her best to deliver on its mandate. Some government officials have diverted the public funds and properties to personal use. Recall that last week, the EFCC wrote a letter to the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, requesting for the assets declaration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Report has it that the declaration…

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Fire Kills Four Family Members The ancient city of Bida, headquarters of Bida Local Government Area of Niger State, was thrown into mourning, Monday, as four family members were burnt to ashes. Those burnt included two wives and grandchildren of the owner of the building. The names of the wives were given as Hajiya Salamatu and Hajiya Jummai Kabaraini while the names of the grandchildren killed were given as Hauwa and Khairatu Mahmud kabaraini. It was gathered that the fire, which started late Monday night razed the expansive building completely. Besides the loss of lives, all valuables, including moveable and…

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FG Imported Least Effective COVID-19 Vaccine For Its People, Dino Exposed A former Kogi State Senator, Dino Melaye, has criticised the Nigerian government for importing the AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine which is the least potent of the four vaccines approved by the World Health Organisation. The former senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District in the 8th Senate said the government did not have the interest of its citizens at heart, thus opting for the least potent of the available COVID-19 vaccines. Melaye argued that Nigerian people deserve the best, and that the people at the helm of affairs should provide the…

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Married Woman Caught In Hotel With Hisbah Official Is His Daughter Not Lover, Hisbah Sani Rimo, a senior Hisbah officer, who was recently arrested by officers of the Kano State police command, has been freed of allegations levelled against him. Rimo was arrested after he was allegedly caught with a married woman in a hotel. The matter became public when it featured on Freedom Radio’s popular magazine programme “Inda Ranka”. It was stated that Rimo was arrested in the Sabon Gari area of the city. Several reactions from different parts of the country trailed the news. Kano’s Hisbah Commander, Muhammed…

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Nigerians React As Governor Buys Bicycles For Civil Servants, Photos Some social media users have taken a swipe at the governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde, for buying bicycles to ease the movement of civil servants within the state secretariat. Though the government did not anounuce the amount spent on the bicycles, the 20 bicycles were purchased for easy movement of civil servants. The bicycles called ‘Keke Seyi’ were rolled out on Wednesday morning at the main entrance of the state secretariat. The governor’s former special assistant on digital media and social media influencer, whom he sacked last year, Murtala…

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BREAKING: EFCC Boss Bawa Testifies In N1.4bn Oil Fraud Information reaching us that, The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa today appeared before an Ikeja High Court to give evidence in a N1.4 billion fraud trial involving an oil company, Nadabo Energy. This online news platform understands that Bawa before his confirmation as EFCC chairman had earlier appeared before the court last year as prosecution witness. The EFCC had accused Abubakar Ali Peters and his company, Nadabo Energy of allegedly using forged documents to obtain N1,464,961,978.24 from the Federal Government as oil subsidy after allegedly…

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Farmer’s Wife With Five Children Gives Birth To Quintuplets, Photo A wife of a farmer identified as Funmilayo Oluwadara has delivered a set of quintuplets in Ogbomoso North Local Government Area of Oyo State. The couple had five children before the quintuplets were born on Thursday, March, at Ayoka clinic and maternity centre, oke ado. The newborns, four girls and one boy, have however been exposed to an unhygienic atmosphere as people who went to the clinic had the opportunity to touch the babies. The father of the babies, Idowu Oluwadara, 40, a Togolese farmer who came to Nigeria to…

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