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A Nigerian would have thought that a highly industrialised country such as Japan, with the world’s third largest economy, its name synonymous with technology and innovation, that produces the most cars, electronics and bullet trains, with glitzy shopping centers, with skyscrapers lining up the Tokyo and Yokohama skylines, is the last place on Earth where […]
Continue ReadingLagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja on Thursday, December 12, convicted and sentenced a businesswoman, Oluremi Ebun Phillips, to 17 years imprisonment for defrauding a company, AYM Shafa Limited, of N57,690,000. Nigeria’s EFCC said Phillips and her company, Omritas Energy Limited, sometime in 2016, in Lagos, fraudulently converted and stole the sum of N57,690,000, […]
Continue ReadingA Nigerian working as a nurse in the United Kingdom (UK), Ruth Auta, has been sentenced to three years in prison for neglecting her ten-week-old baby, Joshua Akerele, who died while she was at work. According to Daily Mail, the single mother who is in her late twenties, had reportedly left Joshua alone in her […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Thursday, remanded a former Minister of Power, Mr. Saleh Mamman, in Kuje prison. The ex-Minister was remanded after he pleaded not guilty to a 12-count money laundering charge the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), preferred against him. Trial judge, Justice James Omotosho said he should remain […]
Continue ReadingRussia’s most significant opposition leader and President Vladimir Putin’s critic has died in an Arctic Circle jail at the age of 47. According to the Russian prison service, he collapsed and died on Friday, February 16, after a walk at the “Polar Wolf” Arctic penal colony where he was serving a three-decade jail term. The […]
Continue Reading25-year-old Nigerian man arrested for falsely presenting himself as a lawyer, AbdulGafar Ayanrinde, has been sentenced to three years imprisonment by an Osogbo Chief Magistrates’ Court. Spokesperson of Osun State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Kehinde Adeleke, on Wednesday, said Ayanrinde committed the offences between 18th and 22nd May 2023 and […]
Continue ReadingA court in United Kingdom (UK) has sentenced former Nigerian Deputy Senate President, Mr. Ike Ekweremadu, to nine years and eight months in prison for an organ trafficking plot, in a conviction that was the first verdict of its kind under the Modern Slavery Act (MSA). The court also sentenced his wife, Beatrice, to four […]
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 ReadingNigerian woman, Abiola Akinremi, 41 years old, who is a care home worker has been sentenced to seven months imprisonment in the United Kingdom for stealing almost £20,000 from the savings of vulnerable residents. The convict was said to have abused her position as an administrator at the facility in Bostall House in Abbey Wood, […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, sentenced the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba, to three months in prison for flouting a 2011 court order. The IGP’s committal followed a suit that was filed by a police officer, Patrick Okoli, who was unlawfully and compulsorily retired from the Nigerian Police Force. […]
Continue ReadingChairman of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, has been sentenced to Kuje Prison over contempt of court. In a ruling delivered by Justice Chizoba Oji of the Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja on October 28, and sighted by newsmen on Tuesday, the EFCC boss was convicted of contempt of […]
Continue ReadingThe two most disadvantaged groups in Nigeria’s representational politics are northern Christians and Southern Muslims. In Nigeria’s internal geopolitics, these two groups are structurally invisible, politically subjugated, and told to be content with their political and symbolic marginality. Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a Muslim from Osun/Lagos states, and Yakubu Dogara, a northern Christian from Bauchi State, […]
Continue ReadingA man and woman who were caught on camera having sex on a busy roadside have been sentenced to 30 months imprisonment in Uganda. Hafashimana Paskari, a 29-year-old bodaboda rider of Migeshi village, Rwaramba parish and Muhawenimana Colodine Mukamulenzi, 24, of Nyakinama sub county in Kisoro District, were arrested last week and charged to court for […]
Continue ReadingTwo Nigerian women who became the first people in Ireland to be convicted of human trafficking for the prostitution ring they ran, have received jail sentences of five years and eight months and five years and one month. Alicia Edosa (45) and Edith Enoghaghase (31) were each found guilty of two counts of trafficking women around Ireland […]
Continue ReadingNigerian man named Bamidele Muraina has been sentenced to 70 months in prison over $2.6m fraud in the United States. 35-year-old Bamidele, better known as Dele Ewe, was also ordered by a U.S. court to pay $561,125.62 in restitution. His conspirator, Gabriel Kalembo, 33, of Zambian, was sentenced to 50 months in prison and ordered to […]
Continue ReadingNigerian man, Benard Emurhowhoariogho Okorhi has been sentenced to serve 75 months in U.S. federal prison for his role in an international fraud conspiracy. Okorhi, 42, is the 11th member of the fraud gang to be jailed. He was initially living in Ghana, operating a business known as Coolben Royal Links LTD. His gang used […]
Continue ReadingReno Omokri has responded to the backlash he received after bashing single mums on social media. On Monday, May 10, the former presidential aide says he has no sympathy for single mums. Many, including BBNaija star, Bisola Aiyeola felt his post was insensitive and came hard on him. Responding via his Instagram page to the criticism, […]
Continue ReadingIt is a case of the hunter becoming the hunted when Justice Umaru Fadawu of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri, Nigeria, sentenced a prosecuting counsel with the State Ministry of Justice, Zanna Dalhatu to 18 months in prison for soliciting N7 million bribe. Dalhatu’s conviction followed his arraignment on January 10, 2019, by the […]
Continue ReadingUgandan feminist and lecturer, Stella Nyanzi, has been sent to prison over a poem about ‘Vagina’ she wrote and shared on Facebook in September. In the poem, the Ugandan feminist used a graphic description of the birth of the Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, and his mother’s vagina to criticize his “oppression, suppression and repression” in […]
Continue ReadingThe Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit asking the Federal High Court in Lagos to stop the Senate President, Bukola Saraki from paying N14.2 million monthly allowances to former Plateau State governor, Senator Joshua Dariye while he serves out a 10-year prison sentence for corruption because such payment violates Nigerian law […]
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