Panic As Lady Runs Mad After Dropping From Tricycle An unidentified girl has been spotted roaming the road in Umuahia, the Abia State capital, a few minutes after she allegedly alighted from a tricycle, driven by a suspected ‘Yahoo boy’ on Wednesday. The girl, who was seen misbehaving at Aba road, was talking to herself and trying to remove her long artificial hair. She was also seen trying to take off her shirt, revealing the black tube she wore underneath atop a pair of trousers. According to some transporters using the road, the girl, suspected to be around 25 years…
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How Nigerian Government Spent N500million On Toilets Ibom Focus bring to you How Nigerian Government Spent N500million On Toilets The Jigawa government says it has spent N500 million on the provision of improved latrines in schools, hospitals, markets and motor parks across the state. The Commissioner for Water Resources, Alhaji Ibrahim Hannungiwa, who said this on Wednesday in Dutse, also noted that the government had adopted proactive measures to ensure the sustainability of its leading position as an ‘Open Defecation Free’ state. According to Hannungiwa, the state is geared towards surpassing the nation’s ODF target by 2025. Hannungiwa said the…
JUST IN: PDP Chairman Is Dead Information reaching Ibom Focus says that PDP Chairman Is Dead Rotarian Bola Olu-Ojo, a former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chairman in Ekiti State, has reportedly died. According to media sources on Thursday morning, the politician died on Wednesday, November 1, 2023. “With the total submission to the Almighty, we announce the passing away of our dear Husband, Brother, Uncle, Father, and Grandfather, Hon. Chief Bola Olu-Ojo, who passed on to be with the Saints in the evening of 1st November 2023,” A statement from a family source said. PDP and the family of the…
BREAKING: Tinubu Bows To Pressure, Speaks On Presidential Yacht President Bola Ahmed Tinubu did not ask for a presidential yacht, Tope Ajayi, his spokesman, has said. There has been outrage since details of the N2.1 trillion supplementary budget Tinubu submitted to the National Assembly were published. According to the budget, N5.09 billion was allocated for the yacht, N2.9 billion for sport utility vehicles for the Presidential Villa, and another N2.9 billion for the replacement of operational vehicles for the presidency. The yacht was listed under the Nigerian Navy’s proposed capital expenditure of N42.3 billion. Reacting to the criticisms that have…
Angry Tenant Rapes, Impregnates Landlord’s Teenage Daughter Over Rent A 61-year-old pastor told an Ikeja S3xual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Wednesday that his tenant, Godwin Emmanuel defiled and impregnated his 16-year-old daughter. Lagos State government had arraigned Emmanuel before the court on a lone-count charge of defilement to which he pleaded not guilty. The prosecution told the court that Emmanuel allegedly defiled the pastor’s daughter between April and July 2021 at Ajangbadi area of Badagry. Prosecution counsel said the offence contravened the Criminal Laws of Lagos State. Following his not guilty plea, state counsel, Ms Abimbola Abolade invited…
Nigerian Police Breaks Silence On Arrest Of NLC President, Ajaero The Imo State Police Command has denied arresting Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) President, Joe Ajaero. According to reports, Ajaero was apprehended in the Imo State capital of Owerri. He was reportedly kidnapped from the NLC State Council Secretariat by highly armed cops and brought to an unknown location. Labour, in a statement signed by its General Secretary, Emmanuel Ugboaja, and Comrade Nuhu Toro, Secretary General of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), claimed that the Imo state administration has continued to utilize violence and intimidation against trade unions and their leadership…
Nigerian Police Beats NLC President Ajaero To Coma, Hospitalised The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has accused the police authorities in Imo State of brutalising its President, Joe Ajaero which has left him hospitalised. Ibom Focus had reported how Ajaero was arrested in Owerri, the Imo State capital. Ajaero was picked up from the NLC State Council Secretariat by heavily armed policemen in Owerri and taken to an unknown destination. In a statement on Wednesday, the Head of Media at the NLC Headquarters, Benson Uper, said the union’s President has been released by the police. He, however, noted that Ajaero is…
Senate Confirms Akpabio’s Former Aide As Electoral Commissioners The Senate has screened and confirmed Etekamba Umoren, Senator Godswill Akpabio’s former aide and Isah Ehimeakhe, an All Progressives Congress card-carrying member as Resident Electoral Commissioners of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The Senate led by Akpabio also screened and confirmed five other nominees namely: Mrs Oluwatoyin Babalola, Abubakar Maaji, Shehu Wahab, Aminu Idris, and Mohammed Abubakar Sadiq as RECs. Akpabio, earlier during plenary on Wednesday, announced President Bola Tinubu’s request for confirmation of the nomination of the RECs for INEC in accordance with the provisions of Section 154(1) of the…
‘Let Heaven Come Down’ –Tinubu’s Intervention, Wike Vows To Fight Fubara The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT Nyesom Wike has vowed not to back down in the ongoing power tussle with Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara. Ibom Focus recalls that Fubara who fell out with Wike, his predecessor, is being impeached by the Rivers State House of Assembly. Speaker of the Assembly, Martin Amaewhule, who is an ally of Wike, and some other members of the House, had commenced impeachment proceedings against the governor. Wike’s allies had suspended the Majority Leader of the House, Ehie Edison, who is…
Supplementary Budget: Tinubu, VP To Spend N7bn On Residences Amid Nationwide Hardship The renovation of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s official residence and that of Vice-President Kashim Shettima in Lagos are to gulp N7 billion out of the N2.176 trillion supplementary budget presented to the National Assembly on Tuesday. The development comes at a time there is nationwide hardship as a result of some policies of the current administration. Part of the details of the budget obtained by Daily Trust on Wednesday further showed that, N1.5 billion was earmarked to purchase official vehicles for the Office of the First Lady. These…