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Court sentences trader to 3 months for stealing N5000 door
An Upper Area Court sitting in Kasuwan Nama, Jos on Friday, sentenced a 28-year-old trader, Abiodun Adeniyi to three months in prison for stealing a zinc...
Two traders jailed for stealing phone
An Upper Area Court sitting in Kasuwan Nama. Jos on Friday, sentenced two traders, Ibrahim Musa and Yusuf Aliyu. The police charged Musa and Aliyu with...
Osun mosque attack: Court remands masquerade’s custodian, Chief Imam, others
An Osun Magistrates’ Court sitting in Osogbo on Thursday remanded masquerade’s custodian, Fashola Esuleke, Chief Imam, Kazeem Yunus and others over...
Defendant’s wife told me her husband defiled his niece, 2 daughters – witness alleges
A civil servant, Waziri Garba on Thursday told an FCT High Court in Kubwa that Yusuf Yahaya’s wife, Fatima, told him and that her husband defiled their...
Man in court for allegedly giving wife abortion drug as pain killer
The police in Ilorin on Thursday arraigned one Nurudeen Osioyemi for allegedly giving his wife, Balikis Aliyu, an unknown drug as a pain killer, which...
Court jails 12 students, two ex-govt officials
Twelve students arrested for Internet fraud have been sentenced to two years’ imprisonment each by the Federal High Court sitting in Enugu. They were...
UNILORIN student’s murder: Judge orders lawyer’s arrest for attacking court
Justice Ibrahim Yusuf of the Kwara State High Court on Wednesday issued a bench warrant on Mr Sikiru Solagberu, the counsel for one of the eight accused...
Court remands driver for killing cows, sheep worth N2m
A Magistrates’ Court in Gwagwalada, FCT, on Wednesday ordered that a driver, Danlami Ogah, 24, be remanded in police custody, for killing 10 cows and...
Widow jailed by Ondo court for causing death of husband
A Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Akure, Ondo state has sentenced a woman Mrs Toyin Olusa to one-year imprisonment for causing the death of her husband,...
Man jailed seven years for defiling 12-year-old maid
A Magistrate’s Court sitting in Port Harcourt has sentenced a 40-year-old man, Ifeanyi Ezeji, to seven years’ imprisonment without an option of fine...
Court remands eight suspected rapists, killers of UNILORIN student
Justice Ibrahim Yusuf of the Kwara State High Court in Ilorin on Tuesday remanded eight persons charged with the rape and murder of a 24-year-old...
Alleged fraud: Court denies ex-JAMB Registrar Ojerinde bail
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, refused to grant Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, former Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, bail on alleged...
BREAKING: Court fixes July 9 to consolidate suits on Nigeria’s Twitter ban
The Community Court of the Economic Community of West African States has fixed July 9, 2021, to decide on the consolidation of all applications before the...
Court fines Federal Government N175m for illegal acquisition of land
An Akure High Court sitting in Ondo state has voided the acquisition of 20 hectares of land by the Federal Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs for the building...
Chieftaincy Tussle: Customary Court tells monarch to step-aside
An Upper Area 2 customary court sitting in Jalingo, Taraba state capital, has asked the acting Mbonduah of Kabri chiefdom, Alhaji Auwal Hamma-Julde...
Man bags nine years jail term for deserting pregnant girlfriend
A magistrate court in the Adamawa State capital, Yola, has handed a man a nine-year jail term for deserting a girl he impregnated and for attempting to...
Two in court for allegedly beating Police officer in Osun
Two men, namely Idowu Salami and Opeyemi Popoola have been dragged before Osun State Magistrate Court sitting in Osogbo for allegedly beating Assistant...
Trafficking: 26-year-old woman bags 20 months imprisonment
A Federal High Court in Ibadan on Monday sentenced a 25-year-old woman, Teniola Idowu, to 20 months imprisonment for trafficking hard drugs. The National...
Casual staff docked for allegedly stealing 12 packs of dry gin
A 28-year-old casual staff, Taiwo Shodipe, on Monday appeared in a Magistrates’ Court in Ota, Ogun for allegedly stealing 12 packs of dry gin, worth...
Osun mosque attack: Trial stalled as Masquerade’s custodian slumps
The trial of Chief Kayode Esuleke, custodian of Masquerade that allegedly attacked worshippers in Kamarudeen mosque, killing one and injuring 14, has been...
