Human rights activist and #RevolutionNow convener Omoyele Sowore was released from Nigeria Police custody late Friday, following nearly three days of detention that ignited widespread protests and condemnation from civil society groups. Announcing his release on X, Sowore stated, āNigeria Police Force and its illegal IGP has capitulated to the demands of the revolutionary movement,…
Folakemi Falana, daughter of human rights lawyer Femi Falana, has fired back at accusations of bribery and corruption involving her father, her brother, Falz, and Nigerian socialite Bobrisky. In a statement on her Instagram page on Friday, Folakemi clarified that her father had never met or spoken to Bobrisky and that Bobrisky reached out to…
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that Ifeanyi, the son of ace Nollywood actor, Francis Duru, is dead. The thespian made this known in a post via his Instagram page on Thursday morning. Duru said he would forever miss and love his son but failed to disclose the circumstances that led to his death. He wrote, āMy champ!!my…
A Federal High Court in Lugbe, Abuja on Wednesday granted N500,000 bail to a 25-year old man, Uroko Louis, standing trial before it over alleged fraud. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is prosecuting the defendant over alleged impersonation and fraud involving the sum of $400 to which he pleaded not guilty to on April…
A 42-year-old man who claimed to be a mobile police officer was apprehended on Friday while he attempted to steal a Toyota Highlander SUV at Magboro, along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in Ogun State. The suspect, identified as Omotoso Ayobami, was arrested by operatives of the Oodua Peopleās Congress while trying to drive away the Highlander…
Nollywood actor Femi Branch has spoken out following the stampede in Ibadan, Oyo State, last week, which resulted in the deaths of over 35 people, mostly children. The stampede occurred during an event at the Islamic High School in the Bashorun area, organized by the ex-wife of the Ooni of Ife. Prophetess Naomi Silekunola Ogunwusi….
Justice Abimbola Awogboro of the Federal High Court sitting in Ilorin, Kwara State, has sentenced a 27-year-old fashion designer, Haruna Musa Tolani, to 12 months imprisonment for impersonating and defrauding Callitus Egwuonwu, an investigating officer with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ilorin Zonal Directorate. Tolani, an indigene of Ilorin East Local Government Area…
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that Alhaji Umar Farouk Bahago, the Emir of Minna has stated that the current economic challenges faced by Nigerians were inherited from the Buhari administration. He made this assertion during a sensitisation event on federal government intervention programmes organised by the Office of the Minister of Information and National Orientation, held in…
Trucks belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited on Sunday began loading loading Premium Motor Spirit, popularly known as petrol from the Dangote Refinery in Lagos State. Dangote Group posted videos showing loading of the product on its X handle on Sunday. The tweet attached to the videos read, āFirst set of trucks set…
Operatives of Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested three for allegedly stealing two phones from accident victims on Governorās Road, Alausa, Ikeja. The suspects, Isaiah Adegbenro, Edet Johnson and Efe Sowemimo, had stolen an iPhone 15, valued at N1,300,000 and an iPhone 12 worth N620,000. They were apprehended a…