2024 Budget: Your Legislative Background Another Reason To Collaborate With You, Akpabio Tells Tinubu Senate President Godswill Akpabio on Wednesday welcomed President Bola Tinubu to National Assembly for the 2024 budget presentation hailing the historic epoch of his former membership of the legislature as further fodder for collaboration towards the common good of the nation. Senator Akpabio spoke as President Tinubu laid his 2024 budget proposals to the joint session of the National Assembly. Welcoming the president on behalf of the National Assembly members, Senator Akpabio posited the ascendence of a sizeable representation of the legislative branch as led by…
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EXCLUSIVE: CEOs Of Government Hospitals Divert Drug Funds Into Private Bank Accounts The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria has urged the President Bola Tinubu-led government to probe alleged corrupt cases made against some of the Chief Executive Officers of the Federal Health Institutions. The PSN’s 96th annual national conference statement headlined “Jewel City 2023,” also voiced concerns over the country’s two million unlicenced narcotics sellers. The communique, signed by Prof. Cyril Usifoh, President of the PSN, and Mr Garfa Madehin, National Secretary of the PSN, stated that the meeting was conducted between October 30 and November 4 at the Gombe International…
EXPOSED: How Emefiele Awarded 45 Contracts Without Approval The embattled former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, has been accused of illegally awarding 45 contracts worth N1.2 billion. The third prosecution witness, PW3, in the trial of Emefiele, Oluwole Owoeye, told the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, presided over by Justice Hamza Muazu that all the 45 contracts awarded by the erstwhile governor of the apex bank, did not go through the Contract’s Tender Committee of the bank. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), in a statement by its spokesperson, Dele…
Terrorists Abduct New Couple, Imam, Wife, Children Suspected bandits on Tuesday night attacked Dan-Honu II community in New Millennium City, Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State kidnapping eight persons. Among those abducted were a new couple who got married last Saturday, Imam of the community Mosque, his wife and three children, including a 10 months old baby. The bandits who stormed the community around 8:50pm numbering about 10, with AK47 rifles and other dangerous weapons, were said to be clad in black, with one of them masked. A community member, Mohammed, who escaped the abduction by the whiskers, told…
Many Casualties Rocks Kano Over Protest Information reaching Ibom Focus says that Many Casualties Rocks Kano Over Protest It was gathered some gangs of political thugs had clashed on Wednesday morning, disrupting peace in the area. The police personnel deployed to the scene of the incident decided to shoot and release teargas canisters to disperse the thugs. Unfortunately, three persons were shot, eyewitnesses said. Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Usaini Gumel, said he acted “unprofessionally,” when, without receiving any command from the existing chain of command, fired a shot. His shot also wounded two persons. The victim who died was receiving…
Nigerian Catholic Priest Impregnates Teenager House Help A Catholic priest, Rev Fr Nwaigwe Stephen, in Anambra State has been remanded in a correctional centre by an Awka magistrates’ court, known as Children, S3xual and Gender-Based Violence Court, for allegedly raping and impregnating a teenager. The magistrate ordered the prosecutor to transmit the original case file to the office of the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice of Anambra State. The priest was also accused of forcefully taking the pregnant minor to Benin City, Edo State, where she was delivered of her baby, but police investigation revealed that the whereabouts of the…
Groom Kills Bride, Others On Wedding Day Information reaching Ibom Focus says that Groom Kills Bride, Others On Wedding Day A Thai physically challenged athlete and former soldier on Saturday shot his bride and three others before killing himself on his wedding day. According to a report by the BBC on Monday, the wedding ceremony between Chaturong Suksuk, 29, and Kanchana Pachunthuek, 44, took place in northeast Thailand. The BBC, while citing information obtained from the Thai Police, said Mr Suksuk left the wedding party abruptly and returned with a gun, shooting his wife, her 62-year-old mother and 38-year-old sister.…
JUST IN: FG Suspends All Wet-leased Aircraft In United Nigeria Airlines The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has suspended all the wet-leased aircraft in the operations of United Nigeria Airlines (UNA). The suspension may not be unconnected with the diversion of the Abuja-bound flight from Lagos to Asaba Airport on Sunday by the cabin crew of the airline. A source close to the agency, confided in our correspondent on Monday that the regulatory body took the decisive action after an emergency meeting held at its headquarters in Abuja. It was learnt that at the meeting, the NCAA inspectors were not…
BREAKING: Former NIRSAL Boss Arrested Information reaching Ibom Focus says that Former NIRSAL Boss Arrested The Department of State Services (DSS) has arrested the former Managing Director of Nigeria Incentive-based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL), Aliyu Abdulhameed. Although Ibom Focus could not immediately ascertain the time and reason he was arrested, his arrest may not be unconnected with financial fraud and criminal diversion of agency’s fund. A picture of Abdulhameed seen on Monday showed him sitting on bare floor at one of the DSS offices. On June 8, how the former Managing Director of NIRSAL, Aliyu Abdulhameed, allegedly…
Don’t Mind Anybody; We Can’t Be Overwhelmed By Mob – CJN, Ariwoola Tells Judiciary The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Kayode Ariwoola, has urged judicial officers in the country not to replace the position of the law with “public opinions, sentiments or emotions” in deciding the cases that come before them. The CJN spoke on Monday in an obvious reaction to the criticisms and condemnations which trailed some Court of Appeal rulings on governorship and National Assembly election petitions in the past two weeks, leading to protests and demand for a probe of some judges for corruption. Ariwoola while speaking at…