Controversial cross-dresser, Idris Okuneye, popularly known as Bobrisky, has regained freedom from the Kirikiri Correctional Centre, after spending six months in incarceration for abusing the naira by spraying it at parties. Recall that Bobrisky was sentenced to six months imprisonment…
Borno residents beg FG to release DCP Kyari
Some residents of Borno State have pleaded with the Federal Government to release DCP Abba Kyari, following the death of his mother. Kyari has been in detention for over one year for alleged corruption. An indigene, Baba Gana Kyari, in…
Times Square hate crime victim confronts attacker in court, says she’s ‘surprised’ he apologised
A 68-year-old anti-Asian hate crime victim described the moment she faced her attacker this week, three years after he brutally assaulted her in New York City’s Times Square. The victim, Vilma Kari, attended the sentencing of 41-year-old Brandon Elliot to…
Children of embattled terrorists negotiator appeal to Tinubu, Ribadu over his ill health
Following a health challenge which needed urgent attention for which he flew to Cairo last year before he was arrested by DSS and brought back to Nigeria, family members of Kaduna based publisher of Desert Herald weekly Newspaper, Tukur Mamu…
Iranian film director Jafar Panahi goes on hunger strike
Iran’s courts voided the dissident director’s sentence last week, but Jafar Panahi is being kept incarcerated in the notoriously harsh Evin prison. “I firmly declare that in protest against the illegal and inhumane behavior of the judicial and security apparatus…