Presidential Task Force Identify Corrupt Officers In EFCC Kayode Ajulo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, has called on President Bola Tinubu to urgently set up a presidential task force to identify corrupt officers in the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC. Mr Ajulo made the call in Abuja on Saturday against the backdrop of the claim by Ola Olukoyede, chairman, EFCC, that the quest for bribes by the agency’s investigators had become “too embarrassing”. Mr Olukoyede had disclosed this in his new-year address to the staff of the commission on January 18. Mr Ajulo, however, said the president should…
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BREAKING: Heavy Gunshots As Kidnappers Storm Abuja Amid the rising wave of insecurity in Abuja, Abdullahi Sabo, a resident of the nation’s capital, has been abducted. Sabo was heading home with his wife when gunmen intercepted his vehicle at Sabon- Lugbe, Airport road in the nation’s capital. The victim was driving in his Ash color Lexus Jeep with registration number ABC 769 TP when the unfortunate incident occurred. It was gathered that he had left the city center and was heading home when the attackers inside an unmarked Golf car opened fire and deflated tyres of the jeep. ‘Your time…
Man Who Impregnated 5 Women Organises Baby Shower For Them Man who impregnated five women Call him a prolific player, you may not be wrong. A man who impregnated five women at the same time has organised a baby shower for them as they may soon put to bed. The social media went into frenzy recently when the report of the man, whose name was given as Zeddy Wills, a musician in the United States, got a 29-year-old musician from Brooklyn, Lizzy Ashliegh, as well as four others pregnant. However, last Sunday, January 14, the man did the unusual by…
Fresh Crisis Rocks Kano Over Plan To Reinstate Sanusi There is another apprehension in the air in Kano State as former governor of the state and the leader of the Kwankwasiyya movement, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has declared that the creation of five emirate councils by the immediate past administration in the state would be “definitely be revisited.” Immediate past governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, had split the Kano emirate into five after he dethroned the 14th Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II. Although the ruling New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has been silent on the matter, the presidential candidate of the…
Akwa Ibom YPP Folds Up, Empties Into APC In Solidarity With Akpabio The budding Young Progressives Party, YPP, which pulled a huge upset in Akwa Ibom during the 2023 general elections has folded up and its structures across the State have joined the All Progressives Congress, APC, in a rare demonstrate of solidarity to the Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio. Governorship candidate of the Party, Senator Bassey Albert, deputy governorship candidate, Retired AIG Asuquo Amba, State Executive Committee of the Party led by the State Chairman, Mr Nyeneime Andy, its Elders’ Council, chapter and ward officers and the entire executive…
BREAKING: Many Travellers Abducted By Gunmen, Video A yet-to-be-ascertained number of travellers have reportedly been kidnapped between Ekiti and Ondo States by some gunmen who laid siege on the road. The incident, which gathered, happened on Thursday evening was between Ikere Ekiti and Iju locations. The victims were, according to several reports, travelling in two vehicles – a Toyota Corolla and a white Highlander when they were intercepted and marched into the bush. A video of the incident on Saturday showed how the hoodlums riddled the vehicles with bullets. As of the time of filing this report, it was not…
I Will Never Run For Any Office Again – Governor Sule Vows, Gives Reason Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State has said that he has no plan to run for any political office after finishing his ongoing second tenure. Sule stated this while speaking on his victory at the Supreme Court during an interview on Channels TV’s Politics Today on Friday. The Supreme Court affirmed the election of Governor Sule on Friday. A five-member panel of justices presided by Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun held that the appeal by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, David Ombugadu lacked merit. But during…
How My Husband Threw Me Out Because I Visited My Ex-boyfriend – Woman Tells Court A businesswoman, Halima Damina, on Friday dragged her husband Jacob before a Customary Court in Jikwoyi, Abuja, accusing him of throwing her out of their matrimonial home. She said this in a divorce petition she filed against him in the court. ”Some time ago, I visited my ex-boy friend’s mother and people lied to my husband that it was my ex-boy friend that I visited,” she said. “When my husband came back home he threw me and my belongings out of the house. I tried…
BREAKING: How Buhari’s Plane Nearly Crashed Information reaching Ibom Focus says that Buhari’s Plane Crashes Muhammadu Buhari’s plane nearly crashed with him and his aides in November 2015, six months after being sworn in as Nigeria’s president, a new book released in Abuja on Tuesday, has revealed. In the book Working with Buhari: Reflections of a Special Adviser, Media and Publicity (2015-2023), written by Femi Adesina, Buhari is said to have been travelling to the Island of Malta to attend a meeting of the Commonwealth Heads of Government when the plane ran into frightful turbulence that persisted for a long…
New Year: Akpabio Fetes Constituents, Awards N500 Thousand Scholarship To 37 Godswill Akpabio, president of the Nigerian Senate, on Friday, January 19, paid a new year visit to his constituents at Akwa Ibom North-West (Ikot Ekpene) Senatorial District. The event hosted at the Ati Annang Hall, Library Avenue in Ikot Ekpene local government area, had in attendance, the wife of the Senate President, Ekaette Unoma Akpabio, and other senators of the Federal Republic. Speaking at the event, Dr Akpabio said he was there to share the joy of the new year with his constituents whose massive support and votes took…