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Prophet Segun Philip, 42, and Owolabi Adeeko, 23, have been sentenced to death by an Osun State High Court, sitting in Ikire, Nigeria, for the killing of Favour Daley-Oladele, a final year female student of Lagos State University (LASU) for ritual purposes. Delivering judgement on the case in Ikire on Monday, Justice Christiana Obadina also […]
Continue ReadingA High Court, sitting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria presided over by Justice Gabriel Ette, has on Friday, June 2, sentenced three women to death for specialising in kidnapping and selling of children in the state. The women identified as Enobong Nsikak Sunday (38), Gertrude Thompson Akpan (48), and Mary Okon James (49) were […]
Continue ReadingOfficers of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command have arrested a 16-year-old boy, Emmanuel John, over the killing of his father, Monday John. It was gathered that Emmanuel, around 10pm on Tuesday, May 2, used a pestle to kill his father during a fisticuff between the deceased and his mother, Mrs Mercy John. A […]
Continue ReadingEighty years old man, identified as Lucas Ateniola, was on Wednesday, March 29 remanded in prison custody by a Chief Magistrates’ court in Ado-Ekiti for allegedly murdering a woman identified as Elizabeth Nwamaka and attempted to murder a 20-year-old Alice Bodunride at their residence in Emure-Ekiti on March 24. While being arraigned before the court, […]
Continue ReadingA former Accountant, Pensions department, Office of the Head of Service of the Federation of Nigeria, Garba Abdullahi Tahir, was on Friday, March 3, convicted and sentenced to 21 years imprisonment for stealing N26.1 million meant for pensioners. Tahir was prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) at a Federal High Court, Abuja […]
Continue ReadingA married female Nigerian nurse, Imolita has told the Special Offences Court sitting at Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria, how she was allegedly raped by a security guard, Ibuchi Emmanuel, at a school where she worked as a nurse. Giving her evidence, she said she was on night duty on the day the incident happened, while […]
Continue ReadingEmbattled police officer, ASP Drambi Vandi accused of shooting and killing pregnant lawyer, Bolanle Raheem, appeared before the Yaba Magistrate court in Lagos state this morning, December 30. Lagos State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Moyosore Onigbanjo SAN, filed a one-count charge against ASP Vandi for the murder of Mrs. Bolanle Raheem. The charge […]
Continue Reading27-year-old suspected Yahoo boy, Obeta John, was on Tuesday, November 29, arrested by men of Ogun state Police Command for allegedly killing his girlfriend, one Idowu Buhari, an HND1 Mass Communication student of Gateway polytechnic Saapade. The spokesperson of the state police command, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, who confirmed the arrest, said the suspect was picked […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) says it has secured a one-year jail term against a 42-year-old woman, Ogierarakhi Joyce Amemze, aka Mama Blossom, who specialised in human trafficking. In a statement on Monday, October 17, 2022, the agency said its Benin Zonal Command secured the conviction on October 13. […]
Continue ReadingAbidemi Rufai, the suspended aide of Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State, Nigeria, has been sentenced to five years imprisonment for fraud by a United States court. He had attempted to use stolen identities to steal nearly $2.4 million from the United States government, including approximately $500,000 in pandemic-related unemployment benefits. According to the statement, Rufai admitted a […]
Continue ReadingA Chinese national resident in Kano, Geng Quangrong, has disclosed why he stabbed his young Nigerian girlfriend, Ummu Kulthum, to death. Geng killed 23-year-old Ummu last Friday, September 16, in her home in Kabuga Quarters, Dorayi Babba area of Kano State, Nigeria. He reportedly confessed to the crime after he was arrested by the police […]
Continue ReadingA 45-year-old man has been arraigned at a Makurdi Magistrate Court for cannibalism. Jeremiah Ode, from Igwe Ochekpo in Oju Local Government Area, Benue State, is being prosecuted at a Makurdi Magistrate Court, for the gruesome murder of Priscilla Adoga, 65. Inspector Omaye Ujata, the Prosecuting Police Officer, told the court that the incident which […]
Continue ReadingSaheed Adisa, 37, has been arraigned before Magistrate F.M Onamusi of the Ogba Magistrate Court, Lagos State, Nigeria, for allegedly assaulting an official of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, Salami Bukola, while she was on duty. Reports say that the defendant allegedly punched Bukola’s face and indecently touched her breast while she was carrying […]
Continue ReadingMapula Florah Manaka, a South African woman, was on Tuesday, August 16, 2022, sentenced to 27 years imprisonment for orchestrating the murder of her husband, Archie Manaka during an incident. The Limpopo High court in Polokwane heard that Flora, 40, and her boyfriend plotted a murder against Archie, 43, who was an IT Specialist in […]
Continue ReadingPopular Taraba State millionaire kidnap kingpin, Hamisu Bala, popularly known as Wadume, to seven years without an option of fine. Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court, Abuja, delivered the judgment on July 22 but obtained by newsmen on Sunday. In the trial that lasted three years, Wadume was convicted on counts two and […]
Continue ReadingOperatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Ekiti State command, have arrested a 36-year-old man, Ayodeji Ademiluyi, for allegedly parading himself as a medical doctor and defrauding Point-of-Sale operators in the state capital. Commandant of the agency in Ekiti State, Mr John Fayemi, said the suspect defrauded the operators by sending fake […]
Continue ReadingThe Ikeja, Lagos State Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court presided by Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo, on Thursday sentenced a Nigerian actor, Olanrewaju Omiyinka, aka Baba Ijesha, to 16 years imprisonment. Baba Ijesha is facing six counts of child defilement that include indecent treatment of a child, sexual assault, attempted sexual assault by penetration and sexual […]
Continue ReadingA Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, convicted and sentenced two co-defendants to two years imprisonment in a charge filed by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) against suspended DCP Abba Kyari over an alleged drug deal. Justice Emeka Nwite, in a judgment, said having admitted to have committed the offence preferred […]
Continue ReadingA High Court sitting in Ondo State, Nigeria, has sentenced to death the arraigned killers of Mrs. Funke Olakunrin, daughter of Pa Fasoranti, former national leader of the the Pan Yoruba Socio-Political group, Afenifere. The then Attorney-General of Ondo, arraigned the quartet of Mohammed Usman, Osagie Lawal, Adamu Adamu, and Abubakar in 2019 for the murder of Olakunrin. The […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos State, presided over by Justice Abdulazeez Anka, has sentenced a Nigerian-American-trained surgeon, John Nweke, to 27 years imprisonment for fraudulently obtaining goods from Konga Online Shopping Limited. The goods reportedly obtained include 19 expensive smartphones and two cameras valued at N35m. The spokesperson for the Police Special […]
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