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Investigative Panel: Bobrisky Given Special Privileges But Served Term In Custodial Facility

Bobrisky
An investigative panel set up by the Federal Government has revealed that controversial crossdresser, Idris Okuneye, popularly called Bobrisky, served his six-month jail term following his conviction over Naira abuse offences. However, the panel revealed that the crossdresser was granted certain privileges during his time at the Kirikiri Medium Security Custodial Centre in Lagos. The panel, chaired by the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Interior, Dr. Magdalene Ajani, also found no evidence to support claims that the crossdresser bribed officials of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCos) to be allowed to stay in a rented apartment outside the prison. BobriskyRead More

US Appoints New Consul General For Lagos

Consul General, Mr. Will Stevens for the United States Mission in Lagos
A new Consul General, Mr. Will Stevens has been announced for the United States Mission in Lagos. Stevens succeeds Claire Pierangelo who led the US Consulate General Lagos from AugustRead More

IPC Expresses Worry Over FG’s Threat To Sanction BBC, Trust TV

Minister of Information and Culture, Mr Lai Mohammed
The International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos, has expressed worry over the threat by the federal government to sanction the BBC and Trust TV, owned by the Media Trust Limited, theRead More

Report: Why Europe’s Rush For Africa’s Gas Smacks Of Hypocrisy

Gas plant
Europe’s growing pressure on Nigeria and a handful of other African countries to produce more gas for export, while declining to fund such projects citing carbon emission reasons has hypocrisyRead More

21 People Missing In Lagos Boat Accident, Flood Disaster

21 People Missing in Lagos Boat Accident, Flood Disaster
Barely three days after the unfortunate boat accident around the Ikorodu area of Lagos State leading to the death of two passengers, another boat accident occurred on Friday night withRead More

NYSC Confirms Attack On Corps Members’ Lodge In Akwa Ibom, Denies Alleged Rape Of Female Occupants

NYSC members
Some robbers on Tuesday night invaded National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) lodge on Udo Ekong Ekwere Street in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, the state coordinator of the scheme has confirmed.Read More

Crisis Brews In Delta State Community After Over 300 Fulani Herdsmen Settle In, Monarch Issues 15-day Ultimatum For Relocation

Delta State
Residents of Okpanam community in the Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State have been engulfed in fear as no fewer than 300 Fulani herdsmen reportedly took over aRead More

Defend Yourselves Against Attackers, Adeboye Tells Followers

Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye
The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has spoken against the high rate of insecurity in the country and told the members ofRead More

Protests On Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway As Policemen Shoot Two Commuters Dead

Protests On Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway As Policemen Shoot Two Commuters Dead
Some yet-to-be-identified men of the Nigeria Police Force, Ogun State command, have reportedly killed two commuters, a truck driver and his motor boy, along the Itori axis of the Lagos-AbeokutaRead More

Don’t Arrest, Harass Nnamdi Kanu’s Supporters In Tuesday’s Court Sitting – IPOB Leader’s Lawyer Warns Nigerian Security Operatives

Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB
The trial of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu will resume on Tuesday, June 28, at the Federal High Court, Abuja. Kanu’s lead counsel, IfeanyiRead More

Emefiele: Nigeria’s FX Policy Targeted At Preserving Naira Value, Others

CBN Godwin Emefiele
Non- convertibility of currencies pose challenge for FX management, says WAIFEM DG The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele, yesterday said the objectives of theRead More