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Nigeria jails transgender celeb for banknote 'spraying'

Bobrisky. [Instagram/Bobrisky]

A court on Friday sentenced one of Nigeria's most famous LGBTQ celebrities, a transgender woman known as Bobrisky, to six months in jail after she was found guilty of throwing banknotes in the air at a film premiere.

The celebration with bank notes, known locally as "spraying", is common at Nigerian weddings and parties, but prohibited by law for damaging the national currency naira.

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