Bobrisky Not Staying In One Bedroom Flat–NSC
News Source: Punch Newspapers
The Lagos State Command of the Nigerian Correctional Service has made clarifications on the status of the controversial cross-dresser, Idris Okuneye, aka Bobrisky in its facility.
Bobrisky is currently serving a six-month prison sentence over abuse of the naira notes.
Justice Abimbola Awogboro of the Federal High Court in Lagos, while sentencing the convict, on Friday, April 12, 2024, said the judgment would be a deterrent to others who are found abusing and mutilating the naira.
However, a new platform (not PUNCH) reported that the convict occupied a newly built VIP apartment in the Kirikiri correctional centre.
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LG Poll: Voter Apathy As Makinde Votes In Ibadan
News Source: Punch Newspapers
Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, on Saturday, urged residents of the state to come out en-masse to perform their civic responsibility in the ongoing Local Government election.
PUNCH Online reports that the State Independent Electoral Commission had fixed Saturday, April 27, 2024, for the council’s poll.
Our correspondent, who monitored the election, observed that eligible voters refused to come out to participate in the ongoing election.
The governor made this appeal while speaking with journalists shortly after casting his vote at Ward 1, Unit 11 in the Ibadan North East Local Government Area of the state.
We’ll resist plot to turn Nigeria into one party state – Wabara
News Source: Vanguard Newspapers
Former Senate President and Chairman, Board of Trustees (BoT) of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), Senator Adolphus Wabara, has vowed that any attempt by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), to turn Nigeria into one party state, would be vigorously resisted.
Senator Wabara who was responding to the reported mass resignation of some key PDP members in the South East geo-political zone, accused the APC of using some elements in the PDP to disintegrate the party.
Recall that former Governor of Imo State, Chief Emeka Ihedioha, on Tuesday, resigned his membership of the PDP, citing the lingering controversy over the position of the PDP National Secretary.
Barely 24 hours after the former Governor’s exit, PDP was hit by a wave of resignation following the alleged resignation of some of its key members and officials in Imo State.
Shun ungodly route to stardom, be agents of change – Pastor Kumuyi tells youths
News Source: Vanguard Newspapers
The General Superintendent of the Deeper Life Bible Church, Pastor Dr William Kumuyi, has charged youths to shun ungodly routes to stardom.
Pastor Kumuyi who gave the charge during a Youth Impact Academy on the sideline of his ongoing Global Crusade at Aba, Abia State, rather urged youths to be agents of positive change.
The cleric charged them to be diligent, focused and make godly choices for true greatness.
Speaking on the theme: ‘Living Like Profitable Stars in Our World,’ Pastor Kumuyi challenged youths to take after some bible characters like Samuel, Timothy, Ruth, among others, who positively impacted their world by godly choices they made.