Author: Ibom Focus

It Is A Sin For Men To Be With One Woman — Says Rapper, Speed Darlington, Gives Reason US-based Nigerian rapper, Darlington Okoye, popularly known as Speed Darlington, has stated why men should not be with one woman. The rapper stated this in an interview on ‘The Honest Bunch Podcast’ He stated that being with one woman was tough and that people were imposing the principle of one woman on themselves. He said, “We (men) are not supposed to be with one woman. There is so much temptation in cheating with one. The temptation is great. We dey force ourselves…

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Tinubu To Gives MKO Abiola’s Family Presidential Entitlements The Secretary of M.K.O. Abiola’s family, Ameen Abiola said the family expects President Bola Tinubu to pay the presidential entitlements of the deceased. Ameen addressed reporters on Monday at a prayer session at the M.K.O. Abiola family house in Gbagura, Abeokuta, the Ogun capital. Former President Muhammadu Buhari conferred Nigeria’s highest honour, GCFR, on the business mogul who won the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential election. The family said beyond payment of the entitlements, they look forward to seeing the government implement the promises Abiola made to Nigerians. Ameen noted that they…

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Northern Elders Sends Strong Warning To Shettima Against Comment Over Senate Presidency The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has cautioned Vice President Kashim Shettima against the “imposition” of the senate president on the national assembly. Shettima has been canvassing support for the candidates nominated by the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the 10th national assembly leadership positions. On Sunday, Shettima announced that Muktar Betara and Yusuf Gagdi, speakership hopefuls of the house of representatives, had agreed to drop their bids for Tajudeen Abbas, the preferred candidate of the party. Godswill Akpabio, the APC’s anointed candidate for the senate presidency, is facing…

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VIDEO: Nigerian Senator Slips During Valedictory Session, Says I Used My Wife’s Position As Judge To Favour Colleagues At Senate Adamu Bulkachuwa, a senator representing Bauchi north, says Zainab Bulkachuwa, his wife, used her position as a judge to favour his colleagues in the senate. Zainab, a former president of the court of appeal, was the first female to hold the position. She presided over the 2007 Sokoto state governorship election petition tribunal and the suit in which Timipre Sylva, former governor of Bayelsa, challenged the nomination of Seriake Dickson, an ex-governor of the state, as the flag-bearer of the…

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Reps Speakership Race: More Aspirants Step Down For Abbas, Kalu Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima on Sunday evening announced that two frontline aspirants vying for the Speakership position in the 10th session of the House of Representatives, namely Hon. Muktar Betara Aliyu and Hon. Yusuf Adamu Gagdi, have stepped down for Hon. Tajudeen Abbas as Speaker and Hon. Benjamin Kalu as Deputy Speaker. Senator Shettima in a video clîp cited by Ibom Focus, affirmed that the duo have “accepted to step down and endorsed the candidature of Hon. Tajudeen Abbas for the Speakership of the Federal House of Representatives. “The…

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Man Shoots Wife Over Argument Information reaching Ibom Focus says that Man Shoots Wife Over Argument A man identified simply as Okhiria has been arrested by the operatives of the Edo State Police Command for allegedly shooting his wife over an argument on June 3, at the Ekae community in the New Etete area, GRA, Benin. The suspect was said to have had an argument with his wife and went to pick up his gun and fired at her with the bullet hitting her left hand. The victim’s hand has been amputated following the incident. Speaking with journalists on Sunday,…

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Nigerian Man Burnt To Death For Having S3x Affair With King’s wife The Nigeria Police Force, Yobe State command on Saturday said its operatives arrested a traditional chief and his two sons over the murder of one Goni Waje in Dako Kangarwa village, Yunusari Local Government Area. The command’s spokesman, DSP Dungus Abdulkarim, in a statement in Damaturu, named the suspects simply as Jalomi, Ciroma and Bulama. He said the murder occurred on June 7, after the trio accused Mr Waje of having an affair with the wife of Mr Bulama, the local chief and father of Jalomi and Ciroma.…

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Nigeria Air: ‘You Are A Drowning Man’ – Rep Fire Backs At Sirika Over Bribery Allegation A House of Representatives member, Hon. Nnolim Nnaji has reacted to the allegation by former Aviation Minister, Hadi Sirika regarding Nigeria Air. At a public hearing, Nnaji described the controversial project as a fraud and condemned the use of an Ethiopian Airlines’ registered aircraft during the launch in May. On Sunday, Sirika alleged that the former House Committee Chairman on Aviation asked him for 5 percent equity shares in the national carrier. In response, Nnaji called Sirika a drowning man and advised him to…

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Most Incompetent Southern Christian Better Than Strict Northern Muslim – Shettima Presidency. He also said he was ready to kneel down to beg the incoming senators to give Godswill Akpabio and Barau Jibrin, opportunity to lead the 10th Assembly. Shettima said this at an interaction with senators across party lines held in Abuja. “I’m ready to kneel down and beg my colleagues for the sake of the nation. This is for the survival of this nation. “Here we are with a Muslim president and a Muslim vice-president in a multi ethnic, multi religious polity like ours. “Number 1, 2. All…

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Tinubu’s Moves To Sale NNPCL’s Assets, Others President Bola Tinubu’s Policy Advisory Council has proposed the sale of the major stakes of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) in the upstream, midstream and downstream sectors of the oil and gas industry. According to Thisday, it was gathered from the Policy Advisory Council Report dated May 2023, that the federal government will earn about $17 billion from the sale of the NNPC’s majority stakes in the oil and gas assets. According to the submissions from the Energy and Natural Resources sub-committees of the advisory council, Tinubu’s administration should consolidate the…

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