Several Casualties As Passenger Bus Crashes Into BRT Terminal In Lagos A passenger bus on Monday crashed into a BRT terminal at Abule Egba in Lagos. The Nation reports that the vehicle lost control while trying to drop a passenger at the bus/stop. An eye witness, Abdulrasheed Tunde, said: ” The vehicle was probably coming from Abeokuta this morning and it was about to drop a passenger when it had brake failure. The vehicle somersaulted two times before crashing into the BRT fence. “There has been one casualty confirmed while the rest of the passengers suffered severe injuries. Some broken…
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“Take May And Her Remaining Children Away From Yul’s Home” Take May And Her Remaining Children Away From Yul’s Home” Following the sad demise of actor, Yul Edochie’s first son, Kambilichuckwu, a number of netizens stormed the page of May’s US-based sister, Blessing Nnewi, with words of advice. News had made the rounds on March 30, 2023, that the actor’s 16-year-old son with first wife, May, died after he became unconscious while playing football in school. May’s co-wife, Judy was spared no words as many social media users accused her of being behind the death of Kambili. Days after the…
BREAKING: Heavy Gunshots As APC, PDP Members Clash In INEC Office BREAKING: Heavy Gunshots As APC, PDP Members Clash In INEC Office Gunshots were heard on Monday when members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State clashed in Port Harcourt, the state capital over the inspection of electoral materials. Trouble started when the APC Governorship Candidate in the March 18 poll, Tonye Cole and members of his party arrived the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the state capital to inspection of materials used in the last election in…
BREAKING: Former INEC Chairman Gets New Appointment Information reaching Ibom Focus says that former INEC Chairman Gets New Appointment Kano State has appointed Oba Dr. Senator Moshood Olalekan Ishola Balogun Aliiwo and Prof. Attahiru Jega as Chancellor and Pro-Chancellor/Chairman of the Governing Council of the state-owned Sa’adatu Rimi University of Education, Kumbotso, respectively. The announcement was made by Malam Muhammad Garba, the Commissioner for Information and Internal Affairs, Kano State, after the state’s Executive Council meeting. The approval was given after the National Universities Commission (NUC) recognized the institution as the 61st state university and the 222nd university in the…
Governor Wike, PDP Members Protest, Demand Inspection Of Election Results In Rivers Governor Wike, PDP Members Protest, Demand Inspection Of Election Results Members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State on Monday protested at the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to demand the joint inspection of election results and the Certified True Copies of result sheets for the just-concluded 2023 general elections. The protesters blocked both the waterlines and GRA areas of Aba road, the two major access points to the INEC head office. No car was able to drive through that stretch of Aba…
Nigerian Govt Shuts School, Sacks Teachers Over Examination Malpractice Nigerian Govt Shuts School, Sacks Teachers Over Examination Malpractice Anambra governor, Chukwuma Soludo has closed down Tower Primary School, Oba, following indictment of the proprietor, Kosisochukwu Igwe, and a PTA teacher, Precious Chibuzo, in examination malpractices during the 2023 Transition Placement Examination of Anambra state. The proprietor in collusion with the PTA teacher took a photograph of the question paper during the examination, solved questions and supplied answers to the candidates. The Commissioner for Education Prof Ngozi Chuma-Udeh announced the closure of the school on behalf of Governor Soludo after the…
‘No Party In Nigeria That Didn’t Come To Me, Bishop Oyedepo Speaks On Leaked Phone Conversation With Peter Obi No Party In Nigeria That Didn’t Come To Me, Bishop Oyedepo Speaks On Leaked Phone Conversation With Peter Obi The founder of Living Faith Church Worldwide, Bishop David Oyedepo, on Sunday, reacted to the controversy generated by a leaked phone conversation between him and the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi for the 2023 election. Ibom Focus earlier reported how Obi in a phone conversation leaked by Peoples Gazette, begged Bishop Oyedepo to woo Christians in the Southwest…
Nigerian Lady Creates WhatsApp Group For Her Husband’s Suspected ‘Side Ch!cs’ Nigerian Lady Creates WhatsApp Group For Her Husband’s Suspected ‘Side Ch!cs’ Joy Ogah, a woman from Nigeria, has taken an unexpected approach to establishing her boundaries in her marriage and putting an end to the problem of infidelity. She established a WhatsApp group and invited women who she believes to be her spouse Chinedu’s mistresses and girlfriends. The wife could be heard advising all the alleged side chicks to avoid her husband in a trending voice note of the group conversation that emerged online. She vowed to deal with…
First Bank Announces Change Of Name Information reaching Ibom Focus says that First Bank Announces Change Of Name First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Nigeria’s premier financial services institution, has announced a phased corporate name change of its subsidiaries in the United Kingdom and Sub-Saharan Africa. FBNBank UK, FBNBank Sierra Leone, FBNBank Gambia and FBNBank DRC are the first set of subsidiaries effecting the name alignment. They are now known and addressed as FirstBank UK, FirstBank Sierra Leone, FirstBank Gambia and FirstBank DRC. The Ghana, Senegal and Guinea subsidiaries will be next in the phased name change implementation. The name change…
See Who Gave The Name Biafra And The Meaning See Who Gave The Name Biafra And The Meaning Biafra is a name that was given to the South-Eastern Nigerians who seceded from Nigeria in 1967. The name was given by Lieutenant Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu as suggested to him by his friend, Chief Frank Opigo. There are many views on the origin of the name and who gave the name. This article will tell us more about the name Biafra, how it came to be, and the states that are considered Biafra Land. Who Gave the Name Biafra? The name…