Woman Arrested For Duping Husband N2.05m Information reaching Ibom Focus says that Woman Arrested For Duping Husband N2.05m A Kano State magistrates’ court has sentenced a woman, Elizabeth Gift, for defrauding her husband the sum of N2,050,000 after he sent her to deposit the money in a bank. The prosecutor, Barrister Jamilu Abubakar, told the court that the defendant was sometimes in April sent by her husband, Benefice, to deposit the said amount to the bank, but that she returned and said some people used weapons and collected the money from her. He said investigation revealed that the money was…
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How I Escaped Assassination – Okorocha Narrates Attack On His Convoy Gunmen attacked the convoy of the former governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, on Friday, a police officer was killed. The convoy of the former governor was attacked at the Ihube community on the Okigwe- Enugu expressway. The Ihube axis of the expressway had been a major point of attacks by gunmen and kidnappers. The former governor confirmed the killing of the police officer and the assassination attempt on him. Okorocha who was Imo governor for eight years said that the slain police officer was deployed by the state…
Africa Gets New Richest Man As Another African Billionaire Dethrones Dangote Aliko Dangote, a Nigerian billionaire businessman, is no longer the richest person in Africa. South African Johann Rupert was named the new richest man in Africa by Forbes Magazine in a recent article. According to Forbes Real-time Global Billionaires Ranking, Rupert presently has a net worth of $12 billion, while Dangote is in second place with a net worth of $10.8 billion as of Friday. Due to recent operational charges on the foreign currency market made by the Central Bank of Nigeria, which caused the Naira’s value to decline…
Drama, Car Wash Attendant Steals Customer’s Posh Car, Leads Police To Gang Members, Recovery Of 7 Vehicles, 16 Engines, 8 Gearboxes, Others The spokesperson for the state police command, DSP Bright Edafe, who disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, said the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of GRA Division, Asaba, received a distress call about the incident. The police in Delta State, southeast Nigeria have arrested a 22-year-old car wash attendant identified as Emmanuel Chidera, for selling a Mercedes Benz GLK 350 given to him to wash. The spokesperson for the state police command, DSP Bright Edafe, who disclosed this…
Governor Fubara Speaks On Wike’s Defection The Governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara has pleaded with his predecessor, Nyesom Wike not to stay away from him even if he crosses over to the other side of the political divide. Fubara said this during a thanksgiving reception for Wike on Sunday at his private residence on Ada-George Road. “While we are seeing signs that it’s like you want to go over to the other side with everybody wishing that, please don’t be too far from me because I know that the sharks, the tigers are really around looking for what to…
Ensure G7 Emerges For APC To Win In 2027, Akpabio Tells Wike Senate President Godswill Akpabio has urged former Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike and his four other friends in the G5 to come up with another aggrieved group within opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to make winning the 2027 presidential election a smooth ride for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Akpabio, a former Akwa Ibom State governor, spoke on Sunday at a thanksgiving reception held at Wike’s private residence on Ada-George Road, in his hometown, Rumueprikom in the Obio-Akpor Local Government Area of the oil-rich South-South state.…
BREAKING: Okorocha Escapes Assassination A former Imo Governor Senator Rochas Okorocha has alleged his convoy was attacked by gunmen last Friday with a police officer killed. Okorocha, who was addressing guests on Sunday at the birthday ceremony of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in Imo State, Samuel Anyanwu, claimed his convoy was attacked at Ihube community on the Okigwe- Enugu expressway while returning to Enugu State. Okorocha said that the the killing of the cop was “unfortunate.” The ex-Imo Governor said that he was retuning from Enugu after attending the burial ceremony of the wife of a former Senate…
EXCLUSIVE: How Ex-Minister Ngige Squandered Public Funds On Trip To Geneva Dr Chris Ngige attended the 2023 International Labour Conference on the last day with a large delegation and ended up doing nothing, as he had left office as the Minister of Labour and Employment. It was learnt on Sunday that the former minister’s trip along with the delegation that travelled with him, ended up as an absolute waste of public funds. Ngige was one of former President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministers, whose tenure ended in May with that of Buhari. Ngige was named minister by President Buhari on November 11,…
How I Was Poisoned – Wike Reveals Immediate-past governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, has revealed how he was poisoned in 2018 at the campaign secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the State and experienced liver and kidney failure. The former governor said he was diagnosed of multiple organ failure in a hospital in Beirut, Lebanon. He recalled that on one fateful Sunday in December 2018 when he was due to attend the thanksgiving programme of his then Chief of Staff, Chief Emeka Woke, he was incapacitated to attend the event because, according to him, he had…
Fresh Trouble Looms, APC Gives Condition To Accept Aregbesola The elders’ caucus of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has chided former Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola and demanded genuine apology over his misdeed in the party. It will be recalled that Aregbesola during his homecoming in Osogbo apologised to the APC members for his action, however, he did not admit to offending anyone stressing that he would not beg anybody again. The caucus in a statement on Friday evening signed by its chairman, Sola Akinwumi disclosed that after wide consultation with the body’s members, it resolved that Osun APC remains…