Full List: Nigeria Ranks Eighth In Happiest Countries Nigeria has been ranked eighth in the list of most happy countries in Africa according to the 2023 World Happiness Report. As of March 2023, Finland is the happiest country in the world for the sixth consecutive time. In Africa, Mauritius emerges as the happiest country on the continent, boasting a happiness score of 5.902. Its extremely happy landscapes and diverse culture undoubtedly contribute to this high ranking. Algeria is a close second, with a score of 5.392, reflecting a sense of well-being prevalent in North Africa.14 Oct 2023. The World Happiness…
Author: Ibom Focus
Colonel Arrested For Printing Fake Currencies, Selling To Bureau De Change Operators The Nigerian police have arrested a syndicate which specialised in printing fake Nigerian and Cameroonian currencies and also recovered fake N9 million and 300 million CFA notes from them in Lagos State. The police held four suspected members of the syndicate among who are a couple:Mr Oludare Olamilekan, 50; his wife Oluwayemisi, 46; Ilelabayo Johnson, 62, who identified himself as a retired Colonel and Adeniyi Quadri, 35. The suspects who were paraded before journalists yesterday, at the Zone 2 Command Onikan, Lagos, by the Assistant Inspector- General of…
BREAKING : Super Eagles Gets New Coach Information reaching Ibom Focus says that Super Eagles Gets New Coach Following the exit of Jose Peseiro as the Super Eagles coach, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has appointed Augustine Eguavoen to serve as the interim coach. Peseiro on Friday announced his exit as the coach of the Super Eagles after taking the team to the final of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON). The team lost to Cote d’Ivoire in the final of the competition. His contract with the team expired in February. Although there were reports that NFF was negotiating…
Despite Claiming Fuel Subsidy Removal, See How Much Tinubu Government Pays To Subsidise Petrol Monthly The Managing Director of Pinnacle Oil, Mr Robert Dickerman, has revealed that the President Bola Tinubu-led administration still spends about N1trillion on petrol subsidies monthly. Dickerman, who revealed this while participating in a panel discussion at session six of Nigeria’s Downstream Forum, which took place at the recently concluded Nigeria International Energy Summit (NIES) in Abuja, said the subsidy payment was impacting on the budget and potentially fuelling smuggling due to the country’s low gasoline prices. SaharaReporters reported on February 12 that the International Monetary…
Tinubu’s Coming Is Divine Blessing For Nigerians – Shettima Boasts Nigeria’s Vice President, Kashim Shettima, has claimed that Bola Tinubu’s emergence as president is not by chance, while describing it as a divine blessing for the country. “The road that led to the Tinubu Presidency did not happen by chance,” Shettima told a delegation of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC), on a courtesy visit at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Friday. The Vice President described Tinubu as a man whose trajectory “is characterised by making sacrifices for the good of the nation,” as quoted by the News Agency of…
Arrest Sunday Igboho Now, Or Else – Miyetti Allah Tells Tinubu, Security Agencies The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) has called for the arrest of Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, a Yoruba self-determination activist for allegedly threatening Fulani in a video. Recall that Igboho had on Monday told his supporters and loyalists not to wait for the government’s intervention before taking steps to fight the Fulani herders who are denying local farmers from accessing their farmland in the South-West region. He had said, “This is our domain. We should save ourselves from Fulani. We should…
We Are Not Politicians – TUC Fire Back At President Tinubu The Trade Union Congress (TUC) has slammed President Bola Tinubu for telling labour unions in the country to stop their protests and wait for 2027 to join the political process. The TUC described such statement as alien as the TUC President, Festus Osifo, maintained that labour unions were within their right to protest, adding that the right to strike is that of the workers. Ibom Focus reported on Thursday, that President Tinubu had while inaugurating the Lagos Red Line project, advised the organised labour that they were not the…
How Late Access Bank CEO, Wigwe Built State-Of-Art Private Tomb Before Death Struck Billionaire business mogul and late former Chief Executive Officer of Access Holdings, Dr Herbert Wigwe had already built a befitting private tomb for himself in his University, sources said. Ibom Focus had reported that Wigwe who died in a helicopter crash in the United States alongside his wife and son would be buried on March 9, 2024 after a combined funeral service at the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Lion of Judah Parish, Isiokpo. As if he had a premonition of his tomorrow, Wigwe had already…
Petrol Hits N1000 Per Litre Information reaching Ibom Focus says that Petrol Hits N1000 Per Litre The free fall of the Naira which has turned the petroleum supply chain into a quagmire is fast eroding the projected gains after the federal government finally removed the petrol subsidy regime. Oil marketers and government officials also appear not to be on the same page when it comes to the actual landing cost of Petroleum Motor Spirit and the impact that Nigeria’s fluctuating currency has had on the importation of the product. Presently, it has been calculated that landing cost of Premium Motor…
BREAKING: Pastor Adeboye Narrowly Escapes Death The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, says he is alive because God is wonderful, recalling how he once escaped death by the whiskers. He spoke at the Redemption Camp, off Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in Ogun, on Saturday as he clocked 82, with congregants celebrating him. Adeboye narrated the incident, which many years ago, according to him, could have claimed his life, if not for a miraculous intervention of God. He referred to an earlier narrative by his former driver of several accidents in which the cleric and…