BREAKING: Facebook Makes U-turn, Reveals When Nigerians Can Monetize Their Content Information reaching Ibom Focus says that Facebook Makes U-turn, Reveals When Nigerians Can Monetize Their Content By June 2024, Nigerian content creators who live in Nigeria will be able to monitize their pages and profiles. At the moment, Nigeria is not among the countries eligible for content monetization on Facebook, but according to information exclusively obtained from Meta, this will be made possible by June 2024. Recall that in March, Meta’s President of Global Affairs, Sir Nick Clegg, visited Nigeria and led a delegation that visited President Bola Tinubu.…
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EXCLUSIVE: Tension As Presidency Fails To Release Tinubu’s Pictures, Video After Returning From Overseas’ Trip In a rare and unusual circumstance, the presidency did not release any picture of President Bola Tinubu’s return trip to Nigeria after two weeks abroad. Since Tinubu took charge of the country a year ago, his aides and presidency officials have consistently released pictures and videos of his arrival and departure from Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Nigeria’s capital city. During such moments, top government officials such as Chief of Staff to the president, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Ministers, Governors, among others…
BREAKING: DPO Slumps, Dies At Airport Information reaching Ibom Focus says that DPO Slumps, Dies On Duty A policeman said to be the Divisional Police Officer attached to the Akanu Ibiam Airport Police Command in Enugu reportedly slumped on duty on Wednesday and was later pronounced dead at the hospital. The DPO whose name was yet to be ascertained when filing this report reportedly slumped at the police station on Wednesday and was rushed to the Annunciation Specialist Hospital at Emene, Enugu State. It was learnt that unfortunately, despite that doctors on duty battled for several hours to revive him,…
BREAKING: Fresh Crisis Looms As Rivers Assembly Gets New Speaker The member representing Bonny Constituency in the Rivers State House of Assembly, Hon. Victor Oko-Jumbo, has emerged as the new Speaker of the House, loyal to Governor Siminalayi Fubara. Ibom Focus reports that the Wednesday’s development might be a response to the opposition All Progressives Congress’ (APC) directive to the 27 Assembly members to impeach Governor Fubara. Oko-Jumbo takes over from the former factional Speaker of the House, Rt. Hon. Eddison Ehie, who resigned as both Speaker and member of the House on December 31, 2023. Ehie, who represented Ahoada-East…
JAMB: Man Break Up With Girlfriend Over UTME Score Information reaching Ibom Focus says that Man Break Up With Girlfriend Over UTME Score According to Facebook Post, Nigerian lady cried out says,“My Boyfriend Broke Up With Me Because I Scored 79 In JAMB. He Said He Doesn’t Want Someone Who Is Not Intelligent”
We Were Promised N30,000, Says Suspects Arrested For Killing Female Student The police in Edo State, south-south Nigeria have arrested three suspects in connection with the killing of a 200-level student of Delta State University, Faith Omodon. Omodon went missing on April 1, 2024. The student of DELSU in Agbor had gone to the farm around Ewohon/Uwemen communities in Edo State with “a Lifan CG 125 motorcycle and never returned”, the police said. A police statement said the victim’s father, Edward Omodon reported the disappearance of his daughter to Abudu Division in Edo State. It said, “After a preliminary investigation…
Gun Fails To Discharge As Man Shoots At Pastor During Church Service A man has been arrested after he attempted to shoot the pastor of a church during a service at Jesus’ Dwelling Place Church in North Braddock, Pennsylvania, US on Sunday. But his gun refused to fire. The 26-year-old man identified as Bernard J. Polite wanted to gun down the pastor, saying, “God told me to do it”. The incident happened when the Sunday service was ongoing, plunging the congregation into pandemonium as the service was being live-streamed. ‘I ducked’ According to the police press release, Polite of Braddock…
‘I No Dey House ooo’, Sabinus Refuses To See ‘Celebrity’ Lawyer, Vera Anyim Nigerian skit maker, Emmanuel Chukwuemeka Ejekwu, popularly known as Sabinus, has reacted to BSc Law testifier, Vera Anyim’s interest to connect with him and music star Davido. The viral internet sensation revealed her intentions to take over the Nigerian showbiz scene with the aid of Davido and Sabinus. In her statement, she stated, “My next movement is to go and meet with Davido you see this celebrity life I must take am by force. After that, I will go and meet with Sabinus. Make una pray…
Tinubu Government Attacks Binance Over Bribery Allegation The Nigerian government has attacked the global crypto trading platform, Binance Holdings Ltd and its Chief Executive Officer, Richard Teng, over the allegation that government officials asked for a bribe to make the case against the platform and two of its executives go away. It was earlier published by Bloomberg that Teng alleged that Nigerian authorities demanded $150 million in cryptocurrency as a bribe to make the money laundering trial initiated against the company and two of its executives go away. Binance, its officials Tigran Gambaryan, a U.S. citizen and head of financial…
TUC Moves To Shut Down Nigerian Economy The Trade Union Congress (TUC) on Wednesday threatened to shut down the Nigerian economy over the cybersecurity levy recently introduced by the Central Bank of Nigeria. The Central Bank of Nigeria has introduced a cybersecurity levy on certain transactions. This was disclosed in a circular from the apex bank on Monday directed to all commercial, merchant, non-interest and payment service banks, among others. However, TUC in a statement signed by its President, Festus Osifo, on Wednesday, called on the Nigerian government to order the Central Bank of Nigeria to immediately withdraw the circular…