A popular Nigerian Crossdresser, known as ‘Abuja Area Mama’, has been murdered in Abuja.

Naija News learnt that his lifeless body was found lying along the Katampe Mabuchi expressway in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, in the early hours of Thursday, August 8.

The deceased, who never hid his sexuality, shared a video of himself on Wednesday evening wearing a black dress with white petals but was later found in the pool of his blood in the same clothing he wore in the video.

Confirming the incident to LIB, the spokesperson of the FCT command, SP Josephine Adeh, said the body of the crossdresser was taken to the hospital, where he was confirmed dead.

She said, “It is true. We received a distress call of a dead body lying of an unknown lady found at Katampe Mabuchi expressway. It was when the police arrived at the scene that we discovered that it was a man in full female attire with blood all over his face.”

Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has ordered an immediate refund of ₦10,000 charged as an application form fee from all job seekers.

The Secretary to the State Government, Olatokunbo Joseph Talabi, said the state’s Civil Service Commission charged the application form fee on behalf of a third-party independent examiners who will supervise the examination to be written by the applicants.

Talabi explained that there was nothing wrong with the ₦10,000 application form fee, stating it was a standard and historical fee that has been in place for decades.

He added that the state government decided to remove it considering the current economic realities. The statement published on the Ogun State Government X handle, on Thursday, read: “Governor Prince Dapo Abiodun has directed the Chairman, Civil Service Commission, to refund all administrative fees currently being charged in relation to the ongoing recruitment exercise into the civil service.

“The directive of the Governor was communicated via a statement issued by the Secretary to the State Government and addressed to the Chairman, the Civil Service Commission, notwithstanding the fact that these are standard and historical fees which have been in place for decades.

“These fees are charged by the Civil Service Commission on behalf of third-party independent examiners who administer and supervise the CBT Test and Centres.

“The State Government has, as a gesture of good faith and in acknowledgment of the current economic situation in the country and also taken into consideration the ultimate aim of this recruitment exercise, i.e. to alleviate the sufferings of the citizens and create employment in the state; instructed the immediate refund of fees paid and a waiver of fees for any new applications.“

The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun, has said it will be hard for Nigeria’s economy if any administration tries to reverse the fuel subsidy removal after President Bola Tinubu’s government.

Wale Edun added that any plan by other administrations to reverse forex subsidy will have to deal with the gains recorded from the two policies.

Edun said with the removal of fuel and forex subsidy the federal government has been able to reduce the percentage Nigeria was spending on service debt from her revenue from 98 percent to 61 percent.

He said such administration would have to borrow money to run every responsibility of government, including payment of salaries, or even to construct a kilometer road

Edun’s statement was posted by Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Temitope Ajayi, on his X handle, on Thursday.

The Minister of Finance also explained that the federal government took the best decision by removing the fuel and forex subsidy.

He said, “Let me be very frank here if any president will come up and dare to return to payment of petrol subsidy or forex subsidy, he will have to deal with reversing the gains we have attained with reduction of percentage of what we were spending out of all our revenue to service debt, which we have reduced from 98% to 67%.

“Then, he will need to borrow to run virtually every other responsibilities of government, including to pay salaries or even to construct a kilometer of road.

“With this, more debts are incurred and debt servicing will now exceed all our revenue thereby leading to bankruptcy and a total collapse of every facets of the governance system.”

In what appears a major shift from previous clam by the Dangote Refinery company, the Group Chief Strategy Officer, Dangote Refinery and Petrochemicals Company, Aliyu Suleiman on Wednesday, stated that 60 per cent of the crude supplied to the refinery was done by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL.

Aliyu made the submission during an interactive session organised by the Senate Ad-hoc committee to investigate alleged sabotage in the Nigerian petroleum industry.

This supersedes the position of the Group Chief Commercial Officer, Dangote Industries Limited, Rabiu A. Umar, who had claimed that the NNPC has been supplying insufficient crude oil for its production demand.

Umar had said that NNPC supplies only 33 per cent of crude to the refinery, disclosing that it had to look elsewhere to source the remaining 67 per cent to meet its production capacity.

He added that the refinery, which has the capacity of refining 650,000 per day, could not depend on short supply from Nigeria’s oil company.

But during his presentation, Aliyu Suleiman stated that out of the five million barrels of crude oil they got in recent time, “NNPC gave them 60 per cent, 20 per cent was imported, and 20 per cent was purchased”.

Aliyu expressed gratitude for the strong partnership between the Dangote Refinery and the NNPC Ltd, and for making the huge supply to Dangote.

He described the refinery as a baby that should be supported by all relevant stakeholders “in order to grow and not die”.

Nigerian Catholic priest, Rev Fr Chinenye Oluoma, has warned that people who neglect technology in search of miracles will end up doing crusades all their lives while those with technology will be cruising in luxury and abundance.

Oluoma said God remains the ultimate and first technologist, adding that every technology human beings made is either an imitation of the one God did in nature or a product of the intelligence God bequeathed on them.

The cleric gave the admonition in a post titled, ‘God and Technology’ on his Facebook page on Thursday.

The post reads, “God remains the ultimate and first TECHNOLOGIST. Every technology human beings made is either an imitation of the one God did in nature or product of the intelligence God bequeathed on them.

“Airplanes are technological imitations, and perhaps improvements of birds of the air. The helicopter was precisely modelled after the dragon fly, that’s why it can take off vertically. Ships, submarines and other marine technologies came from aquatic animals.

“I think there’s a technology that can translate one language into another. Let’s assume there’s a global conference in Nigeria and people from French, German, Italian, Arabic, Greek, Chinese, Russian etc speaking delegates come. As the speaker is speaking in English, the other delegates will be hearing their own languages through the technology. This technology is still improving.

“Do you know this is similar to, if not exactly what happened on the Pentecost day in Acts 2:5-6. As the Apostles spoke, the people from different places understood them in their respective dialects, i call it ‘Holy Ghost translation technology.

“When human beings can replicate through technology what God did or can do supernaturally, God apparently expects them to take the responsibility.

“The Israelites who were defended supernaturally by pillar of cloud and fire now depends on the iron dome and other military technologies for that. To cross the Red Sea today, they use Ships, boats or planes. God doesn’t part the sea for them anymore.

“What about manna? Josh 5:12 says it stopped falling once they ate the produce of the land and started cultivating the soil. From then till now, agricultural technology has given them more than manna and they are thriving.

“A people who neglect technology in search of miracles will end up doing crusades all their lives while those with technology will be cruising in luxury and abundance.

“The “prophets” God is using to solve people’s material problems do not gather them for crusades and marathon prayers, they use technology and intelligence to produce solutions.

“Today’s Israel doesn’t need Moses against Pharaoh, they have the Netanyahus doing that divine assignment with intelligence and technology.

“Your “prophets” here who claim to do same for you only gather you for miracle crusades and collect your money to go and enjoy in Israel. When you have sense, Faith makes sense. If you like interpret this to mean that Fada Oluoma doesn’t believe in miracles, na you sabi.”

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Joe Igbokwe has faulted the party over its attitude towards former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai.

Igbokwe lamented that APC just ignored El-Rufai without thinking of how the party got to its current level.

Posting on his Facebook page, Igbokwe described the former governor as a fearless leader, key player and organizer.

Igbokwe said: “I do not know why the leadership of APC Nigeria thinks that a scholar with huge brain, a bold thinker, a fearless leader, a facilitator, a key player, a team player, organizer like Mallam El-Rufai can just be ignored as if we do not know how we got here.”

El-Rufai, a founding father of the APC, has been sidelined since President Bola Tinubu assumed office.

Tinubu had nominated El-Rufai for a ministerial role but the Senate failed to clear him.

El-Rufai’s successor, Governor Sani Uba’s administration had instituted a probe against him over alleged misappropriation of funds while in office.

United States-based Nigerian dancer, Korra Obidi has secured a permanent restraining order against her estranged husband, Justin Dean.

Nancy, Korra’s sister, who shared the update in an Instagram post on Wednesday, revealed that the order was granted after a long legal battle.

DAILY POST reports that Obidi and Dean’s marriage crashed in 2022, over allegation of infidelity.

Also, Korra and ex-hubby Justin Dean, in a court document dated 19th January 2022, were banned from sharing photos and videos of their children, June and Athena Dean, on the internet.

In June 2023, Korra cried out on social media over anonymous people reporting her to Child Protective Services, CPS, accusing her of abusing her children.

Nancy, in the Instagram post, detailed allegations of harassment, exploitation and defamation by Justin and an associate, who allegedly shared intimate content of their children.

“Dear IG fam. How are you doing? I have never brought this issue here but I’m too excited and I want to share this.

“Today, my sister @korraobidi secured permanent restraining order against her Facebook stalker. This stalker defamed, harassed and threatened her for over 2 years on Facebook.

“It does not end there, this stalker befriended my sister’s ex. He invited her to his house and while she was there, she took pictures and videos of my sister’s children unclad right in their father’s bathroom.

“He permitted this stalker to share the clips and photos with a group of racists in exchange for monetary gains.

“So far, my sister has spent almost $200,000 fighting for her right to be in her children’s life. Today was the first of several hearings. She has taken him to court to get back her right to motherhood. We are happy it’s off to a great start. The stalker can no longer bully her online or come 100 yards near her and her children.

“I’m grateful to God for my sister. She escaped, not a lot of people are that lucky. Now she’ll fight for her TOTAL FREEDOM.”

Bismarck Rewane, an economist and the Executive Director of Financial Derivatives, has said the prices of tomatoes and pepper dropped to N60,000 per basket amid the hunger protests.

Rewane, who is also a member of the Presidential Economic Coordination Council, disclosed this on Thursday in an interview with Channels Television.

According to him, the drop represents a significant price reduction when compared to the N130,000 to N150,000 a basket of tomatoes and pepper sold two to three weeks ago.

He, however, noted that the food items were sold out at perishable value.

According to him, the prices of tomatoes and pepper may increase again as business activities return to normalcy in Nigerian markets post-protests.

“Our team went into the market Yesterday(Wednesday), percent drop in the price of tomatoes to down to N60,000 per basket, the price was bold two to three weeks ago.

“Pepper has come down to N60,000 by 57 percent. I think that these are perishable goods. Because of the protests and the restrictions on movement, the goods that are on the farm are not getting to market and the ones in the market are being sold off.

“What I think will happen is that in the next few days, the price of tomatoes and peppers will increase again. Right now it is the perishable value that will be seen in the market,” he said.

Recall that in the past week, protesters had taken to the streets in major Nigerian cities, demonstrating against the rising cost of living in the country.

Commercial sex workers in Kano have appealed to organisers of the nationwide hunger protests to engage the Federal Government in dialogue.

They told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday that the protests had crippled social-economic activities, leaving them without customers and struggling to survive.

Monica James, who operates on France Road, said that dialogue was the only option to address the grievances of the protesters.

“I have not eaten for two days because of the curfew; our customers are nowhere to be found,” she said.

She urged the organisers to shelve their protests and negotiate with the government to end the demonstrations.

Deborah Iliya, a sex worker on Yoruba Road, who echoed James’ sentiments, described the situation as horrible, as she has not been able to find customers.

Hannatu Ibrahim, of Weather Head Area, also called for an end to the protests, joining the growing calls for a return of normalcy.

Caroline James, a sex worker operating from a brothel on Enugu street in Sabon Gari, said that the infiltration of hoodlums and subsequent violence “spoilt our business.”

She said that she had booked clients who were willing to pay between N30, 000 and N40,000, but they were unable to keep their appointments due to the tension and curfew.

A sex worker, who preferred to remain anonymous, said that some of her colleagues were forced to share rooms due to the lack of customers during the protest.

She appealed to the authorities to relax the curfew, stating that it had severely impacted their ability to conduct business.

Moses John, a bar attendant, told NAN that the curfew had severely impacted business activities in Sabon Gari, with hotels and bars hardly selling due to the absence of customers.

Kenneth John, a dealer in Esi Ewu ( goat head) on Aitken Road, told NAN that the curfew had negatively impacted business activities in Sabon Gari, lamenting that he had lost several heads of goats due to lack of power supply.