The former spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olisa Metuh has been jailed for 39 years for money laundering. Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court on Tuesday in Abuja convicted and found Olisa Metuh guilty on seven counts filed by the Economic and Financil Crimes Commission (EFCC). Metuh was arraigned by the […]
Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein was found guilty on Monday of sex crimes in a high-profile trial that marks a defining moment for the #MeToo movement against sexual assault. Weinstein, 67, was convicted of a criminal sexual act for forcing oral sex on former production assistant Mimi Haleyi in 2006 and of the third-degree rape […]
Efforts by BEDC Electricity Plc (BEDC) at curbing the menace of vandalism on its network has again received a boost with the sentencing of one David James to three years imprisonment by a Benin Magistrate Court 6 in Egor Local Government Area of Edo State. The accused was sentenced on a two-count charge of stealing […]
Professor Wole Soyinka on Monday has asked if he ‘will be thrown in jail right away because the word revolution frightens some people.? Soyinka made this known in Abuja at the United Nations International Anti- Corruption Day summit. ‘Am I going to be thrown in jail right away because the word revolution frightens some people? […]
President Muhammmadu Buhari on Monday said his critics could not accuse him of stealing. He said he appealed to the integrity of his ministers who, according to him, are in charge. The president said this at the Presidential Villa in Abuja while hosting a delegation of the Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria. He said […]
A Kaduna Chief Magistrates’ Court, on Tuesday, sentenced two brothers, Aminu Usman and Ibrahim Usman, to six months imprisonment each for stealing two plasma Television sets. Aminu, 18 and Ibrahim, 20, both residents at Kawo in Kaduna, admitted their guilt of the crime and begged the court for leniency. The court found them guilty of […]
This is Justice Adebukola Banjoko of the Federal Capital Territory High Court who found former governor of Taraba State, Reverend Jolly Nyame guilty for criminal breach of trust on 23rd May 2018. She was so appalled at Nyame’s brazen theft of public money that she bellowed: “There’s no moral justification for the level of outright […]
Former Plateau state governor, Joshua Dariye, today pleaded with Justice Adebukola Banjoko to temper justice with mercy as she handed him a 14-year jail term for diverting N1.1 billion from the state when he was governor. Counsel to Dariye, Paul Eroko, pleaded for the court to temper justice with mercy as his client was misled […]
About two weeks after former Taraba State Governor Jolly Nyame was sentenced to prison without an option of fine, another former State Governor and a serving Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Senator Joshua Dariye (APC, Plateau Central) on Tuesday, bagged 14 years jail term. After a judgment that lasted about eight hours, Justice […]
President Donald Trump Donald trump has commuted the sentence of Alice Marie Johnson, a 63-year-old grandmother who has been serving a life prison sentence for a non-violent, first-time drug offence. The commutation comes just a week after Mr Trump met with businesswoman and celebrity Kim Kardashian, who has championed Johnson’s case after learning about the […]
THE Police have arrested 18 suspects over last week’s mayhem in Offa, Kwara State and Doga, Bali Local Government Areas of Taraba state respectively during which several lives were lost and property worth millions of naira were lost. The Force Public Relations Officer, FPRO, ACP Jimoh Moshood who disclosed this to newsmen while parading […]
Two suspects earlier paraded by the police for illegal possession of firearms allegedly supplied by Senator Dino Melaye have escaped from custody. Just as the senator was declared wanted alongside Mohammed Audu, son of a former governor of the state, Abubakar Audu. The suspects were detained by the Kogi State Police Command in Lokoja, while […]
A federal High Court Owerri judicial Division Imo state, presided over by Justice Allagoa, has sentenced a 25-year-old Chidiebere Duru to three years’ imprisonment, for unlawfully tampering with a 200KVA transformer belonging to the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company(EEDC). An indigene of Umuafai Village, Dikenafai, Ideato South Local Government Area of Imo State was convicted by […]
Against all odds, two white South Africans who dehumanized their black employees by ordering them to sleep in coffins, have been jailed by the country’s court. Two white South African farmers involved in the infamous coffin assault case were handed a total of 25 years in jail by a court. According to agency report, the […]
A Minna Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday sentenced 19-year-old Jibrin Umar, to one year imprisonment for shop breaking. Umar was docked alongside one Abubakar Mohammed on a 3-count charge of joint act, shop breaking and theft, offences Umar admitted committing. The Prosecutor, Insp. Emmanuel Danladi, had told the court that on Oct. 4, one Abubakar Ubale […]
An Egyptian court sentenced former President Mohamed Morsi to 20 years in prison Tuesday in connection with the killing of protesters in 2012. He escaped a possible death penalty with the court ruling that he and 12 other Muslim Brotherhood leaders and supporters were guilty of intimidation and violence, but not murder. The charges are […]
Three men accused of gang-raping a teenage Kenyan girl and dumping her in a sewage ditch have each received 15-year jail terms. After reports suggested that the punishment meted out to the rapist by the police was to cut grass, the case prompted more than 1.8 million people to sign an online petition demanding justice. […]
The long awaited aborted confiscation of assets worth £89 million hearing of former governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori, begins today (Monday) at Southwark Crown Court, courtroom 8. Billed to last for six weeks, both the Crown prosecutors and Ibori’s defence team, have this final chance to prove to Judge Anthony Pitts, whether the […]
Jomo Kenyatta, leader of the Kenyan independence movement, was convicted by Kenya’s British rulers of leading the extremist Mau Mau in their violence against white settlers and the colonial government. An advocate of nonviolence and conservatism, he pleaded innocent in the highly politicized trial. One of modern Africa’s first nationalist leaders, Kenyatta was a great […]
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