A judge of the Federal High Court in Lagos, Justice Abimbola Awogboro has handed down a verdict, sentencing controversial cross-dresser, Mr. Idris Okuneye, famously known as Bobrisky, to six months in prison with no option of fine. The judgment is coming days after the anti-corruption agency arraigned Bobrisky before Justice Abimbola on April 5. Bobrisky upon his arraignment had pleaded guilty to all the four count charges slammed against him by the EFCC bordering on Naira abuse. The judge consequently found him guilty of abuse of the Naira and slated Tuesday, April 9th for sentencing. Unfortunately, the eid fitr holiday…
Author: Michael Chibuzo
The Labour Party has become a theater of chaos following the latest twist in the crisis engulfing the party especially as it regards who takes over from Mr. Julius Abure who has been National Chairman of the party since 2018. On Wednesday, the Abure-led National Working Committee of the party held a national convention in Enugu where the entire NWC members were ‘re-elected’. However, many stakeholders, including Mr. Peter Obi distanced themselves from the Nnewi convention. Prior to the convention, the Labour Party moved the venue of the convention thrice – from Benin City to Umuahia before eventually settling for…
Popular Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has been a guest of the security agencies who invited him for questioning over his comments on the activities of bandits in the country. Mohammed Idris, Minister of Information and Orientation, disclosed this on Monday while addressing journalists at the State House, Abuja. This invitation of Sheikh Gumi for questioning is not unconnected with his recent utterances in the wake of the abduction of many school children at the Kuriga Government Secondary School and the LGEA Primary School in Chikun LGA of Kaduna State. Following their abduction, the Islamic cleric reportedly offered to…
The police has arraigned in court Ibezim Chike Victor, the younger brother of Reportera founder and Editor, Nnamdi Ibezim who published a series of fake news in its news blog in August, 2023 first alleging that the former Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola wrote the judgement for the presidential election petition tribunal judges and then later reporting that the Nigerian army has secured the residence of Mr. Fashola to safeguard him from possible attack from the people over his alleged role in writing judgment for the PEPT to dismiss the petitions filed by both Mr. Peter Obi of…
Details have emerged in the Mambilla hydropower project controversy how Femi Falana’s client Sunrise Power and Transmission Company promoted by Leno Adesanya used bribery in the form of money and women to try and get Nigerian officials to compromise in the Mambilla arbitration between the company and Nigeria. In January, 2024, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arraigned former Minister of Power when the Mambilla hydropower contract was awarded to Sunrise Power, Olu Agunloye in court over allegations of fraud in the award of the contract in 2003 under the administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo. Sunrise Power is in…
A major upset is on the cards in Senegal as the country’s opposition leader Bassirou Diomaye Faye has emerged as favourite to win Senegal’s presidential election after close of voting on Sunday where millions of voters took part in a largely peaceful exercise. A total of 17 candidates stood for the presidential election in Senegal. The incumbent president, Macky Sall is however not one of them, having attained maximum terms allowed in the Senegalese Constitution. His ruling coalition presented Amadou Ba as candidate. Amadou Ba has rejected reports of defeat and said he expects that the election will go to…
One of the two Binance executives detained in Nigeria for alleged tax evasion and other offences, Nadeem Anjarwalla who is in charge of Binance operations in East and West Africa has reportedly escaped from detention and left Nigeria. Reports suggest that Mr Nadeem Anjarwalla escaped on Friday, 22 March, from the Abuja guest house where he was being detained alongside his colleague after guards on duty led him to a nearby mosque for prayers in the spirit of the ongoing Ramadan fast. It is believed that he exploited the privileges of having access to phones and internet to plot his…
The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has expressed joy on the release of hundreds of school children abducted by bandits from a school in Kuriga, Kaduna State as well as the release of pupils of a Tsangaya school in Sokoto State. The President made this known in a statement following the news of the rescue that was first broken by the governor of Kaduna State, Uba Sani. The President said, “I welcome the news of the release of the Kuriga school children in Kaduna State. This reemphasizes the importance of collaboration between the federal government…
The Akwa Ibom State Governor, Pastor Umo Bassey Eno, has said that he will not oppose or attack the government of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu despite being a member of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The governor made the statement in a rousing speech during a reception ceremony for thoúsands of defectors from the APC and other opposition parties into the ruling PDP in the state, which took place in Uyo. Governor Eno, who is also a Pastor said at the gathering: “A lot of people have asked repeatedly: Are you in PDP? Yes! I am in PDP but…
The Deputy National Organizing Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Nze Chidi Duru has called on the federal government to investigate the foreign airlines still claiming outstanding foreign exchange backlogs to the tune of $700 million despite the CBN insisting that all verified claims have been settled. Nze Duru made this call in a personal statement yesterday. The statement read: “Not a few Nigerians, including my good self, heaved a sigh of relief when the Central Bank of Nigeria announced that it had cleared the more than $7bn backlog of unpaid foreign exchange commitments to businesses and banks. The…