BREAKING: SSANU, NASU Declare One Week Warning Strike The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) have jointly declared a seven-day warning strike. The decision stemmed from the non-payment of their four-month of salaries withheld since the nationwide strike of 2022. The resolution came to light after a meeting held by the Joint Action Committee of the two unions in Akure, Ondo State, over the weekend. President of SSANU, Mohammed Ibrahim, conveyed the unions’ stance during a press briefing in Abuja on Monday. He emphasised that the strike action was deemed necessary as…
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BREAKING: Gunmen Kill Man, Abduct Wife, Son On The Road As Police Lamented Lack Of Fuel To Go After Killers Some gunmen suspected to be herdsmen have killed a man and abducted his wife and child in Enugu State. It was gathered that the incident occurred along Afa/Egede Road despite military checkpoints and the ongoing Operation Udoka of the Nigerian Army in the Southeast region. It was reported in February how kidnappers abducted family members conveying the corpse of their late brother from Lagos to Nsukka in Enugu State. Afa – Egede Road in the Udi local government area of…
Fresh Crisis Looms As More Wike Loyalists Declare Support For Fubara Members of the Local Government Coordinators of Grassroots Development Initiative, GDI, a political pressure group that was instrumental in the grassroot mobilization for the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, while contesting the 2015 governorship elections in Rivers State have declared their support for Governor Siminalayi Fubara. This is coming barely four days after Achor Nna, the councillor representing the ward of the FCT’s Minister, resigned his position in Fubara’s support. The 12 coordinators represent Ogu/Bolo, Port Harcourt City, Opobo/Nkoro, Gokana, Bonny, Ahoada West, Ahoada East, Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni,…
Nigeria’s Richest Woman, Divorces Husband, Reveals Next Lover In a recent development, Nigeria’s wealthiest woman, Folorunsho Alakija, and her husband, Modupe Alakija, have reportedly ended their 30-year marriage. According to sources, ongoing disagreements led to the couple no longer residing together in their upscale Ikoyi, Lagos home. Allegedly, Folorunsho Alakija sought increased privacy, prompting her husband to find separate accommodation in the same Ikoyi neighborhood. Despite their societal standing, it’s revealed that the couple has faced challenges in recent years, maintaining a united front publicly despite their reported personal differences.
Presidency Speaks On Cabal Hijacking Tinubu’s Government The Presidency has disclosed that there is no room for cabal to take over the control of President Bola Tinubu’s government. Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, said no one individual has monopoly over what the president hears or sees in the Presidency. Featuring on TVC News Sunday Politics, Ngelale, said: “I think this is a man who anyone working in the office of the President would tell you, there is not one individual in the Presidency that has a monopoly over what the President sees, hears and reads. “Nobody…
BREAKING: Popular Nigerian Senator Is Dead Information reaching Ibom Focus says that Popular Nigerian Senator Is Dead A chieftain of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) in Nasarawa State, Senator Abubakar Danso Sodangi is dead. Ibom Focus learnt that the former senator, who represented Nasarawa West for 12 years in the Nigerian Senate, breathed his last on Sunday at the age of 70. Sodangi served as the Chairman of the Campaign Council for the re-election of Governor Abdullahi Sule in 2023. The circumstances surrounding his passing are sketchy as of the time of this report.
BREAKING: Darkness In Abuja As Vandals Hit Major Transmission Line Several parts of Abuja are currently witnessing another bout of darkness as the Shiroro-Katampe 330kV transmission line has been vandalized. The development comes less than two weeks after the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) announced that vandals had hit a transmission line. However, in a statement on Sunday, TCN said the new vandalism will affect electricity customers under the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company on 33kV feeders from Central Transmission Station (TS) (FDRS1-8), Katampe1(LifeCamp Gwarimpa, Jabi, Wuse 2 and 9mobile feeders. Katampe2(Maitama,Jahi and Mpape feeders). Also to be affected are Kubwa…
President Tinubu Begins Restructuring Information reaching Ibom Focus says that President Tinubu Begins Restructuring A coalition called the Alliance for Yoruba Democratic Movements (AYDM) has listed two key steps that should be taken by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to kick-start the restructuring of the country. It identified the steps to include ensuring that each Divisional Police Officer (DPO) is from the state of his jurisdiction and that state police commissioner is at least from the region where the state is located. AYDM comprises more than 130 pan-Yoruba and community-based groups in largely Yoruba territories, including Kwara, Kogi, Akoko Edo and…
Woman Jumps From Moving Boat A female passenger, identified as Nimotalahi Ishola, on Saturday night, jumped into the lagoon while onboard a ferry at Igando area, Alimosho local government area of Lagos State. The incident happened around 9pm on Saturday, shortly after the boat left the Isuti Jetty in Igando community en route Totowu in Ogun State. Nimotalahi was said to be in the boat with 11 other passengers when she suddenly pulled off her life jacket and jumped into the lagoon in what looked like a suicide. A plastic bottle of an insecticide was said to be found in…
Police Officers Arrested Over Kidnapping Business Information reaching Ibom Focus says that Police Officers Arrested Over Kidnapping The Nigeria Police Force has announced that police officers who kidnapped a businessman, Omoh Oshoke, in Abuja, the nation’s capital and extorted the sum of N29,900,000 from him in January have been charged. This was confirmed on Sunday by Force spokesperson, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, on X his (formerly Twitter) handle. Adejobi added that the accomplices including one Elizabeth Amos Busayo, a POS operator and one Thomas Michael who aided the policemen in committing the offence have also been arrested. In a video in January,…