Oyo Secretariat Invasion: Suspected Yoruba Nation Agitators Arrested

The Oyo State Police Command issued a statement that joint security task force arrested 20 suspected Yoruba nation agitators who invaded the Oyo State Government Secretariat, Agodi in Ibadan, the capital of the state around 0900am on Saturday. The statement reads in part, “The suspects, who were on military camouflages came heavily armed in an unregistered silver-coloured Nisssan Urban bus containing cutlasses, pump action rifles, cartridges, assorted charms and Oodua nation agitation flag.

Emefiele Granted Bail Of N50m

A High Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, has granted bail to former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, in the sum of N50 million 26-count charges bordering on abuse of office.

Dispatch Rider Narrates How He Collected $3m Cash For Emefiele

A Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) employee, Mr Monday Osazuwa, on Friday, told an Ikeja Special Offences Court how the former apex bank governor, Godwin Emefiele, on different occasions, directed him to collect three million dollars cash in tranches. Osasuwa, while being led in evidence by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) counsel, Mr Rotimi Oyedepo (SAN), said he was a dispatch rider in Zenith Bank in 2001 before he joined the CBN in 2014.

Bobrisky Sentenced to Six Months Imprisonment

The Federal High Court in Lagos, on Friday, sentenced controversial crossdresser, Idris Olarewaju Okuneye, popularly known as Bobrisky, to six months imprisonment without the option of a fine for abusing the naira. This judgment was delivered by Justice Abimbola Awogboro, who, in her sentence, said the judgment will serve as a deterrent to others who are fond of abusing and mutilating the naira. Before the sentence, the judge asked Bobrisky about his sex, and he quickly replied that he was a man.