BREAKING : Newly Elected National Assembly Member Is Dead, Photo A House of Representatives member-elect for Jalingo/Yorro/Zing Federal constituency, Taraba State, Ismaila Maihanci, has passed on. Maihanci died early Saturday morning and his janaza (funeral prayer) will hold today at the National Mosque in Abuja after noon prayers. The October 22, 1986 born politician and businessman was elected in the just held general elections under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Before his election also, he has served as a Special Adviser to Taraba State Governor Darius Ishaku. He had also served as the Secretary of PDP in…
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Nationwide Darkness Looms Over Shutting Down Of Power Plants Nigeria may be thrown into darkness in the coming week as the power generation companies (GenCos) yesterday moved to shutdown their power plants over lingering debts. Executive Secretary of the Association of Power Generation Companies (GenCos), Dr. Joy Ogaji, who confirmed the development to The Guardian, said over 90 per cent of the invoices by the power companies had not been paid. However, it was learnt that the reduced payment was occasioned by delay in securing the budgetary top-up payment for tariff shortfall under the 2023 appropriation. Sources familiar with the…
FG Postpone Census Information reaching Ibom Focus says that FG Postpone Census Twelve days to the commencement of the national population and housing census, uncertainties have continued to trail the planned headcount and there are indications that it may be shifted due to funding and other logistic challenges. It was gathered on Friday that the National Population Commission might again postpone the census as it struggled to raise the required funds. Earlier in March, the Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Clem Agba, disclosed that the Federal Government planned to establish a basket fund to collect donations for…
My Husband Beat Me, My Family, Threatens To Kill My Parents — Housewife Cries Out For Help A Grade I Area Court in Kubwa, Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, FCT, has dissolved an 18-year-old marriage between a housewife, Hafizar Saidu and her husband, Aminu Usman over his lack of care. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the judge, Malam Yahaya Sheshi dissolved their marriage following Hafizar’s prayer to the court for divorce on the grounds of lack of care and battery. Sheshi ordered Hafizer to observe “Iddah” which is a waiting period to be observed for three months before…
Man Drags Side Ch!ck To Court For Sending Him Her N@ked Photos A woman of Livingstone, Zambia, has been relieved of her side ch!ck duties despite providing her partner with sxxxual services 70 times since November 2021. Her partner says he now wants to concentrate his energy towards his wife at home. According to Zambia Daily Mail, Catherine Siamuche, aged 30 had been contracted to provide sxxxual pleasure to a married man, Allasca Ng’andu, 36, but with no strings attached. Allasca told the Livingstone Local Court that the terms and conditions of his adulterous affair with Catherine were explicitly spelled…
Nigerians Should Stop Blaming Buhari For High Cost Of Living – Presidency The Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President, Garba Shehu, on Friday, said the rising cost of living is not only peculiar to Nigeria alone but a global phenomenon. Shehu, who spoke during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today, defended President Muhammadu Buhari on some of the problems encountered by Nigerians in the last eight years. He said the current administration has within the past eight years done well in ensuring food security and reducing the cost of living in Nigeria. The presidential spokesman…
War: All Aircraft Set Ablaze In Airport: FG Rules Out Airlift Of Trapped Nigerians In Sudan The Federal Government says it was no longer considering airlift of Nigerians stranded in Sudan following the outbreak of war in the country. Chairman/Chief Executive of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa, who made this known in a tweet on Friday, said any flight from Sudan would be a great risk. She, however, assured that the National Emergency Agency (NEMA) and the Nigerian embassy in Sudan are doing everything possible to ensure the safe return of Nigerians, adding that all aircraft in the…
Nigerian Female Lawyer Kills Husband After He Found Out That Their Houseboy Is Her Biological Son, Photos More facts have emerged in the trial of a 36-year-old lawyer, Abasiesebanga Ikoiwak and five others, over the gruesome murder of her husband, Godwin Ikoiwak, 41. Until his death in January last year, Ikoiwak, a native of Eket Local Government Area, was a Counsel at the State Ministry of Justice. At the hearing of the matter before an Uyo High Court, a friend and classmate of the deceased in the Faculty of Law, University of Calabar, Sunny Anyanwu, said he told him in…
Sowore Angrily, Rain Curses On President Buhari Over His Apology To Nigerians The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has knocked President Muhammadu Buhari, for asking Nigerians that feel hurt by his (Buhari’s) actions or policies to pardon him because he (Buhari) is also a human. Ibom Focus earlier reported that President Buhari on Friday asked Nigerians that felt hurt “so much” by his actions to pardon him, because “we are all humans.” Speaking at the 9th and final Sallah homage which took place, Friday, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, President Buhari described himself as a…
JUST IN: Police Launch Manhunt For Gunmen Who Killed 5 Policemen, Couple The Imo State Command of the Nigerian Police Force has confirmed the killing of five policemen and a couple at Okpala junction in the Ngor Okpala Local Government Area of the state. The Command’s spokesman ASP Henry Okoye, who confirmed the incident, said that all the Tactical and Operational Teams of the command had been deployed for the manhunt of the assailants. It was earlier reported that some gunmen struck Okpala junction and killed five policemen who came from neighbouring Aboh Mbaise police Division to eat at the…