A Dutse Grade 1 Area Court in Abuja on Thursday sentenced a 30-year-old man, Philip Agwan, to three months imprisonment for criminal breach of trust and cheating. The Presiding Officer, Mr Suleiman Mohammed, however, gave him an option to pay N10, 000 fine. READ ALSO: Fisherman kills wife over N5,000 ends up in Police net […]
Ikeja – An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday sentenced a 21-year-old unemployed man, Idris Eniola, to six months in Kirikiri Correctional Centre for stealing a cell phone valued at N5,000. The magistrate, Mrs O.O. Fagbohun, sentenced Eniola after he pleaded guilty to a two-count charge bordering on stealing. Fagbohun held that the convict should serve […]
A Karmo Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, on Monday sentenced a 23-year-old man, Yusuf Sani, to five months imprisonment for stealing cloths. Sani, who resides at Jabi Garage, Abuja, was arraigned on a two-count charge of criminal trespass and theft, offences he admitted committing. The judge, Mr Maiwa Inuwa, however, gave the convict N5, 000 […]
Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo yesterday lamented that the only notable presence of the Federal Government in Igbo land was prisons. Ohanaeze lamented poor industrial presence in Igbo land. Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo yesterday lamented that the only notable presence of the Federal Government in Igbo land was prisons. Ohanaeze lamented poor […]
Five years after John Yusufu was convicted with an option of N750, 000 fine by an Abuja High Court, the Court of Appeal in Abuja on Wednesday reversed the lower court decision and sentenced Yusufu to 6 years imprisonment and slammed a whopping N22.9billion fine on him Yusufu, a federal civil servant and one of […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that Nigerians who engaged in double voters’ registration will be liable to one year imprisonment. The Head, Voter Education and Publicity, Gender and Civil Society Liaison (INEC), FCT, Mrs. Ndidi Okafor, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja. Okafor, […]
An FCT High Court sitting in Jabi on Monday sentenced two civil servants, Mohammed Audu and Yusuf Ayodeji, to 105 years imprisonment, for fraudulent activities. The convicts who were Procurement Officers in the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation, were arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in July 2016. Audu was […]
….Places N1m reward for anyone who fishes out EKSU killing cultists Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayo Fayose, has said the state is sponsoring a bill against incessant killings by student cultists on the state university campus. The bill, when passed into law, would hand out death penalty to anyone found guilty of involvement in cultism […]