DStv, GOtv Customers To Experience Downtime Sunday To Tuesday Customers of DStv and GOtv have been notified to expect a three-day “technical downtime” of its services. In a notice shared on its official X handle on Friday, DStv explained that the downtime would be due to the ongoing Lagos-Calabar coastal road construction. The pay TV operator, Multichoice said the project would force them to relocate from the office location between May 5,and May 7, 2024, assuring customers that disruptions would be minimised during the relocation. It stated, “Our uplink facility will be impacted by the ongoing Lagos-Calabar coastal road construction…
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BREAKING: Dozens Killed As Explosions Rock IDP Camp Shells have hit a displacement camp in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) killing an unconfirmed number of people, including children. Save the Children, an international charity organisation, said its officials witnessed the incident while distributing hygiene kits at the camp outside of Goma on Friday. According to the charity organisation, community reports suggest about 40 were killed with many injured, although. Save the Children said it had not independently verified the number and added that all its workers and local partners are accounted for. “The reports from the camp are horrifying.…
Father Of Seven In Trouble Over S3xual Exploitation Of Children Niger State Police Command has arrested a 53 year old suspect, Abdullahi Imman aka Abbah for alleged gross indecency and s3xual exploitations of children at Tayi around of Minna, the state capital. The suspect, who is a father of seven children, was said to have used his provision store as his hideout to commit the crime. It was gathered that he usually used sweets and biscuits among others to lure the children including boys and girls between six and eleven years. Confirming the development in Minna, the state Public Relations…
Identity Of Lady Found Dead At Abuja Bridge Finally Revealed The Federal Capital Territory, FCT Police Command has launched investigation into the mysterious death of a young lady identified as Kadoon Luisa Iornumbe in Abuja. Ibom Focus has earlier gathered that Luisa’s lifeless body was discovered by motorists at the Timper Garage bridge in Mpape area of the nation’s capital. The unfortunate incident occurred on Thursday morning when the deceased was heading to her work place. According to eyewitnesses, Luisa, an indigene of Benue State was allegedly killed by the one-chance robbers who have been causing chaos in the capital…
NUJ To Tinubu: Unveil Agenda On Safety, Protection Of Journalists The Nigeria Union of Journalists(NUJ), FCT Correspondents Chapel, has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to unveil his administration’s plan and agenda on safety measures and protection for the media practitioners and workers in Nigeria. This is as the Union said it had observed the toxic and hostile environment in which Nigerian journalists have been operating over the years, describing the situation as absurd, ridiculous and unacceptable. NUJ stated this on Friday in a statement jointly signed by Comrade Jide Oyekunle, Chairman of FCT Correspondents Chapel, and Raphael Oni, the…
BREAKING: Ex-naval Chief, Army General To Be Arrested Information reaching Ibom Focus says that Ex-naval Chief, Army General To Be Arrested Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has ordered the arrest of a former Chief of Naval Staff, retired Vice Admiral Usman Jibrin, and two other officers over N1.5 billion money laundering charge. The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) dragged the trio before the court over fraud N1.5bn allegations. The court issued the arrest warrant after hearing a motion exparte marked FHC/ABJ/CR/158/2023 and filed by ICPC counsel, Osuobeni Ekoi Akponimisingha. In the motion,…
Nigerian Pastor Ban Eyelashes, Orders Bride To Remove It A Nigerian bride recounted how her pastor told her to remove her lashes during her church wedding. Jessica Okah, the bride, disclosed this incident on TikTok, mentioning that the pastor had raised the issue of her eyelashes before the wedding day. However, she said she had completely forgotten about it and thought it would be overlooked during the wedding. She said, “What would you do if your pastor asked you to remove your lashes in the middle of your wedding ceremony? It was like a movie, but it was happening for…
Nigeria In Big Trouble As Tinubu Inherited Economic Death Sentence From Buhari, Shettima Finally Opens Up Vice-President Kashim Shettima has again blamed erstwhile President Muhammadu Buhari, his party man, for the unprecedented economic calamity Nigeria and its people are enduring consequent upon the removal of the petrol subsidy and floating of the naira amid several years of unsustainable borrowings by Mr Buhari’s regime. Despite several prominent figures opposing Mr Buhari’s wayward economic policies and wanton borrowings, he was egged on by many of his acolytes as even former President Olusegun Obasanjo could not prevail on him to change the nation’s…
BREAKING: Details Of NLC Minimum Wage Demand Ibom Focus brings to you Details Of NLC Minimum Wage Demand The ongoing negotiations for a new minimum wage have deadlocked following the inability of the Federal Government and organised labour to reach a consensus on the issue. President Bola Tinubu gave this indication in his speech during this year’s International Workers’ Day celebration in Abuja, on Wednesday. Also, the President’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Mr Bayo Onanuga, in an interview with The PUNCH, faulted workers’ insistence on the N615,000 minimum wage. He said the government and labour unions had not…
BREAKING: Kidnappers Kill RCCG Pastor, Photo The pastor of Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Olugbenga Adedolapo Olawore, who was abducted and murdered by kidnappers on Lanlate-Eruwa road, was on Tuesday buried as Christian faithful, friends and relations mourned him. The burial took place at a cemetery in Mowo, off Badagry expressway, Lagos State, after a church service at the RCCG (City of His Glory), zonal headquarters along Badagry expressway. People who gathered there wore sombre looks. Some shed tears as the atmosphere turned sombre. In his ministration, a cleric, Pastor G. Aribisala, quoting Psalms 90:4 and Ecclesiastes 3:2,…