Mother Dumps Baby Inside Well Information reaching Ibom Focus says that Mother Dumps Baby Inside Well Delta State Commissioner of Police, Abaniwonda Olufemi said operatives in the state have arrested a 24-year-old woman, Sofia Nkwor for dumping her one year and a month old baby in a well along the Araya Community’s road in Isoko South Local Government Area. CP Olufemi disclosed this at a press briefing today. The State Police boss said children who went to play around the tree discovered the abandoned child floating in the well. According to CP Olufemi, “The mother Sofia Nkwor ‘f’ aged 24yrs…
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ASUU Begins Indefinite Strike On Thursday, May 2, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) University of Abuja chapter has commenced an indefinite strike. Dr. Sylvanus Ugoh, Chairman of the Branch, acknowledged the event, saying the resolution was made during a congress meeting held at the institution’s Permanent Site. Platinumpost reports that members of the UniAbuja chapter of ASUU have been at loggerheads with the outgoing Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Abdulrasheed Na’allah and the Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman over the processes for the appointment of a new VC. An advertorial that surfaced in a national daily on March 15, 2024,…
Man In Trouble For Giving Out Under-age Daughter In Marriage Uzochukwu Okoli, an Anambra state resident, has been detained by the Anambra State Government for organizing the marriage of his underage daughter. Okoli was detained after his daughter complained to the Ministry of Women and Social Welfare about the abuse she was receiving from her father and the man he forced her to marry. Following the death of their mother, Chioma Okoli, the daughter who is currently 16 years old, said that their father transported them from Edo state, where they were pursuing their education, in order to find a…
Leaked WhatsApp Chats Show Wanted Yahaya Bello Is Plotting To Bribe Judges With Dollar The fleeing former governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello is currently making moves to bribe some judges handling his alleged fraud and money laundering case initiated against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission with dollars. This was revealed by his close allies and commissioners in Kogi State in their chats in a WhatsApp group named, “Only Ododo 4 Const” which were leaked to SaharaReporters on Thursday morning. The EFCC had declared Bello wanted for allegedly misappropriating over N80 billion in public funds while the…
BREAKING: Many Causalities As Hoodlums Clash, Set Market On Fire, Photos Many people were injured after hoodlums clashed in the Ile-Epo area of Lagos State. It was gathered that a fight started in the market situated in the area on Wednesday night and continued till Thursday morning. Some shops were set on fire while some goods were destroyed in the process. Our correspondent who visited the scene of the incident gathered that an early intervention by the police was restricted by the hoodlums. A fire service truck that drove into the market this morning was also forced to reverse after…
BREAKING: IPOB Declares Fresh Sit-at-home The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has declared sit-at-home across the Southeast on May 30. IPOB said the sit-at-home was to honour Biafran heroes who died during the civil war of 1967 to 1970. Emma Powerful, the spokesman of IPOB, directed all schools, government offices, private offices, banks, transport unions, market unions and private individuals to shut down all operations on Thursday. A statement issued by Powerful reads: “We the global family and movement of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) ably led by the indomitable and charismatic leader Mazi Nnamdi OkwuChukwu Kanu declares Thursday,…
Photos, Identities Of EFCC Operatives Arrested For Robbery, Kidnapping Nasarawa State Police Command has arrested three suspected armed robbers who were parading themselves as an Operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The Command PPRO, DSP Ramhan Nansel in a statement wrote that on 17/04/2024, at about 1545hrs, a distress call was received that four individuals posing as EFCC personnel, using a Toyota Corolla, Green in colour with registration number Abuja YAB 509 TT robbed some students of Federal Polytechnic, Nasarawa at Samakwe Lodge, behind Government College, Nasarawa LGA and Abducted one Adudu Kingsley, an ND II Student…
Days Of Worry For Nigerians Over, Just Start Celebrating, Say Tinubu As He Reveals Next Action President Bola Ahmed Tinubu yesterday, celebrated his first May Day as president, assuring the organised labour that the issues that prevented the tripartite committee on minimum wage from reaching a consensus would soon be resolved, and that workers’ days of worries over their living wage would be gone. The president, who spoke while delivering his speech as Special Guest of Honour at this year’s May Day Commemoration ceremony at the Eagle Square, Abuja, also assured workers that his administration was open to the tripartite…
EFCC In Trouble For Declaring Pastor, Wife Wanted Information reaching Ibom Focus says that EFCC In Trouble For Declaring Pastor, Wife Wanted A Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, has awarded the sum of N10 million as damages against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for declaring Pastor Oyinmiebi Biribena and his wife, Pastor Beatrice Biribena, wanted without a valid court order. Biribena is the pastor in charge of the Christ Embassy Church in Kumasi, Ghana. The court declared that the publication by EFCC on June 8, 2022, declaring Biribena and his wife, Beatrice Biribena, wanted without…
Nigerian Govt Declares 2-Day As Farm Days Information reaching Ibom Focus says that Nigerian Govt Declares 2-Day As Farm Days Governor Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom State has reassured civil servants that the state government will key into whatever resolutions are taken by the federal government on the national minimum wage. Speaking at the 2024 International Workers Day celebration in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, the governor noted that civil servants have shown him massive support right from the March 28, 2023 governorship elections and therefore, it behoves him to reciprocate the gesture by implementing some of his promises made to…