US president-elect, Donald Trump sentenced in hush money criminal trial

United States president-elect, Donald Trump has been sentenced to unconditional discharge for his conviction last year on 34 charges of business fraud related to hush money payment to Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential campaign. Unconditional discharge means Trump will not be imprisoned, fined or face probation, but his conviction still stands, and he will enter office as a convicted […]

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Gov Adeleke pardons man sentenced to death for stealing fowl

Governor of Osun State, Ademola Jackson Adeleke, has pardoned the widely known ‘death-for-fowl’ convict, Segun Olowookere, alongside his co-convict, Sunday Morakinyo. Olowookere, who was 17 years old at the time of his arrest in November 2010, was convicted and sentenced to death by an Osun State High Court on December 17, 2014, for conspiracy to […]

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Lagos businesswoman sentenced to 17 years in prison for N57.6m fraud

Lagos 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, […]

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Lagos Bishop sentenced to life imprisonment for raping assistant Pastor

An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court has sentenced a Lagos Bishop, Oluwafeyiropo Daniels, simply called Feyi Daniels, to life imprisonment for raping his 23-year-old female assistant and worshipper (name withheld). The Bishop, who took to the witness box in his own defence, testified that he believed three out of the four women who […]

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Nigerian woman sentenced to death in Iraq for attempted suicide may be executed next month

The life of a Nigerian woman, Dose Rebecca Oluwaseunfunmi, is currently in danger in Iraq, after sources said she was sentenced to death by the country’s government and will be killed in November if the Nigerian government does not take an action. According to Sahara Reporters, Oluwaseunfunmi travelled to Iraq on May 6, 2023, in search of […]

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Nigerian pastor and his brother sentenced to death for murder

A High Court sitting in Essien Udim Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria, has sentenced two brothers to death by hanging for killing a farmer. The convicts are Uduak Udo Umoren, a 48-year-old pastor and his 34-year-old brother, Emmanuel Udo Umoren, a commercial motorcyclist. They were found guilty for the murder of Iboro […]

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Fake lawyer sentenced to prison in Nigeria

25-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 […]

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Nigerian Pastor sentenced to death for killing choir mistress, 2 others

A High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria, has sentenced a Nigerian pastor, Chidiebere Okoroafor, to death by hanging for murder. Okoroafor, who is the General Overseer of the Altar of Solution and Healing Assembly based in Oyigbo, Rivers State was tried for killing his choir mistress, Orlunma Nwagba, who he allegedly impregnated. […]

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Turkish main opposition leader sentenced to 9 years in prison

47-year-old Canan Kaftancioglu, said to be the leader of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) in Istanbul, has been sentenced to 9 years in prison for several offences, including spreading terror propaganda, according to judicial sources. The  37th High Criminal Court in Istanbul on Friday September 6, handed a two years and eight months jail sentence […]

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Nigerian pastor sentenced to 7 years imprisonment for rape

Justice Hussein Baba-Yusuf of the FCT High Court Maitama has sentenced a clergyman, Pastor Basil Princewill, founder Mountain Mover Ministry International Nyanya, to seven years in prison for rape. Pastor Princewill was arraigned in court by the police on allegation that he forcefully had sexual intercourse with a 14-year-old girl, between July 27 and Dec. […]

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Evans’ gang members sentenced to 41 years in prison

A high court judge sitting at Ikeja, Lagos State, Monday, sentenced two former gang members of alleged billionaire kidnapper, Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike, also known as Evans to 41 years in prison. Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo sentenced the convicts, 32-year-old Kelvin Emenike Ukoh and Emeka Obasi, 33, over the abduction of one Ugoje Jude, a shipping agent, and […]

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