How “Charly Boy Sold Me Out For N70m”- Eedris Abdulkareem Cries Out For Help Eedris Abdulkareem says Charly Boy Sold Me Out For N70m Nigerian singer, Eedris Abdulkareem has chastised his colleague Charly Boy for selling him out’ for N70 million during a 2004 brawl with American rapper 50 Cent. According to Abdulkareem, he had a plane fight with 50 Cent, and the American rapper’s team swooped on him as other Nigerian artists stood by and did nothing to rescue him. When Charly Boy, then-president of the Performing Musicians Association of Nigeria, was summoned to mediate, Eedris said that he…
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IPOB Declares Sit-at-home On Tuesday, Others, Give Reasons Information reaching Ibom Focus says that IPOB Declares Sit-at-home On Tuesday, Others The Indigenous People of Biafra has asked its members and supporters of its detained leader, Nnamdi Kanu, living in South-East to boycott social and economic activities on Tuesday. The sit-at-home on January, according to the group, is to allow the Biafra agitators give solidarity to Kanu, who will appear before Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court, Abuja on that day. IPOB, however, clarified that there will be no sit-at-home on Wednesday and Thursday, saying that, “we don’t want…
BREAKING: UGM Attack Imo Police Station, Kill Inspector Information reaching Ibom Focus says that Gunmen Attack Imo Police Station, Kill Inspector An attack at the Mgbidi Divisional Police Headquarters in Imo State has left a police Inspector dead with another cop sustaining injuries. The attack which happened on Friday night caused panic in the area as the hoodlums who came in a vehicle and police operatives engaged in a gun duel. Our correspondent gathered that on arrival, the invaders opened fire but they were repelled by the policemen on duty. A source, who pleaded not to be mentioned, said “One…
Kanuri Origins of the Tinubu Family, Farooq A. Kperogi Kanuri Origins of the Tinubu Family, Farooq A. Kperogi There is probably no “indigenous” Lagos family that is more famous than the Tinubu family. But, although the family is now clearly culturally Yoruba, its ethnic provenance is traceable to what is now Borno State, according to Lagos historians, underscoring the historical and sociological inaccuracy of notions of ethnic purism in Nigeria. The patriarch of the Tinubu family, historians of Lagos say, was a Kanuri man known as Momodu [it was most probably Modu since Kanuris tend to shorten Muhammad to Modu]…
BREAKING: Boko Haram Ban Movement Of Farm Produce With Trucks, Others Information reaching Ibom Focus says that Boko Haram Ban Movement Of Farm Produce With Trucks, Others Militants from the Islamic State-backed faction of Boko Haram, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), formerly known as Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jihād have banned transportation of farm produce with trucks in Bana, Kwapaena, Unguwan Madaki, Koppa and Kurebe communities in the Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State. According to FIJ, the jihadists also collect levies to grant farmers access to their farms. “They would extort millions of naira from us…
My Wife Always Beats Me And Denies My Conjugation, Please Help Me, Man Cries Out Man Cries Out says My Wife Always Beats Me And Denies My Conjugation, Please Help Me A Nigerian man has been left worried over a marital issue he has with his wife. The man revealed that his wife beats and slaps him whenever they quarrel. He further added that she denies him his conjugal rights. He shared the story on Nairaland and wrote: I want to use this medium to seek for your advice. Me and my wife has been together since 2014, although we…
BREAKING: Popular Governor’s Nephew Arrested For Supplying Weapons, Military Kits To Bandits Information reaching Ibom Focus says that Popular Governor’s Nephew Arrested For Supplying Weapons, Military Kits To Bandits The Nigeria Police Force has arrested and detained a nephew of Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa, former governor of Sokoto State who was supplying arms, ammunition, and military kits to bandits in Zamfara State, SaharaReporters has gathered. The police had last week arrested the suspect identified as Musa Mohammed Kamarawa. It was learnt that he is currently being detained at the NPF headquarters in Abuja. He was arrested by the Special Tactical Squad.…
BREAKING: VIDEO: Moment Soldiers Abscond As ISWAP Fighters Attack Nigeria Army University The Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) has released video of its fighters attacking Tukur Yusufu Buratai Institute for War and Peace (TBI), a research Institute of the Nigerian Army University, located in Buratai Village, Biu Local Government Area of Borno State, on Monday. Buratai is the country home of the immediate past Chief of Army Staff and current Nigerian Ambassador to the Republic of Benin, Tukur Buratai. In the video, the insurgents were seen firing in different directions, with no resistance from troops. The insurgents also…
Woman Attempting To Sell Co-Wife’s Child Arrested Information reaching Ibom Focus says that Woman Attempting To Sell Co-Wife’s Child Arrested Police detectives in Zamfara state have arrested a Nigerien woman identified as Aisha Ibrahim, who allegedly tried to sell her co-wife’s two-year-old boy in Gusau, the state capital. According to the state police commissioner, Mr Ayuba N Elkanah, the detectives acted on intelligence before tracking down the suspect at Tullukawa area of Gusau metropolis. The suspect, who hail from Danyade Kaya village in Maradi, Niger Republic, was arrested with her co-wife’s child whom she claimed she stole in retaliation to…
BREAKING: Boko Haram Attacks Police Training School, Abducts Many Officers Information reaching Ibom Focus says that Boko Haram Attacks Police Training School, Abducts Many Members of the deadly Boko Haram terrorist sect, on Thursday, invaded the police mobile training school in the Limankara Gwoza local government area of Borno State abducting many people in the process. According to Punch, the kidnappers left with an unspecified number of mobile policemen. The training school is located twenty-five kilometres from Gwoza town, the hometown of Senator Ali Ndume, the Chairman Senate Committee on Army. It is a border town between Borno and Madagali…