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Court sentences 3 women to prison for discrediting Qur’an
The Zamfara State Upper Shari’a court in Guasu has sentenced three women suspected to have desecrated the Holy Qur’an to 5 years and six months in prison...
Court Remands 107-year-old Witch Doctor, Teenager In Prison For Allegedly Removing 12-year-old Boy’s Eye
A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Kano has ordered that 107-year-old witch doctor, Sayyada Furera Abubakar and 17-year-old Isah Hassan should be remanded in...
Man bags life imprisonment for raping UNILAG student, judge slams victim
A Lagos State Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court, Ikeja, on Tuesday, sentenced a man, Collins Okechukwu, to life imprisonment for raping and...
Court sentences atheist to 24 years imprisonment
Kano State High Court yesterday sentenced a Kano-born atheist, Mubarak Bala, to 24 years imprisonment for blasphemy. The convict, whose age and address...
US Court Sentences Nigerian Prince To 33 Months Imprisonment Over Passport, Bank Fraud
A 24-year-old Nigerian man, Sobanke Idris Sunday Adereti, has been sentenced to 33 months imprisonment for federal fraud violations by a United States...
Lawless Nigeria Police Re-arrest Enslaved 21-year-old Woman, Glory Okolie Weeks After Release From Suleja Prison
The Nigerian police have arrested a 21-year-old woman, Glory Okolie who only got out of the Suleja correctional centre in Niger State last week after more...
25-year-old okada rider bags life in prison for rape in Ekiti
An Ekiti State High Court, sitting in Ado Ekiti has sentenced one Ayokunle Eric Henry to life imprisonment for the offence of rape. The convict was arraigned on...
Man regains freedom after 3 years of remand for murder
An Ekiti State High Court in Ado Ekiti has discharged and acquitted fifty-year-old Omobulejo Olawale (50) of the offence of murder. According to the charge,...
Three men bags six months jail term for mixing rice with husk
Jigawa State Consumer Protection Board has arrested and sentenced three persons to six months imprisonment for mixing 10 bags of Paddy rice with the husks. The...
Drug trafficking: Court orders Abba Kyari’s transfer to prison
An Abuja Federal High Court has ordered the transfer of former police Intelligence Response Team, IRT, boss, Abba Kyari to Kuje prison. Justice Emeka Nwike also...
Cleric facilitates release of 82 inmates
The Shepherd-in-charge of Celestial Church of Christ, Genesis Global, Israel Oladele Ogundipe, has secured the release of over 82 inmates from the Kirikiri...
Fuel Souvenir: Lagos socialite, Ogbulu bags 27 months imprisonment
Ms. Ogbulu Pearl, who distributed Premium Motor Spirit, also known as fuel, as souvenir at a party, has been sentenced to 27 months in prison. Pearl was convicted...
Monarch cries out over unlawful detention
A traditional ruler in the Ipaja area of Lagos State, Chief Moruf Owonla has cried out over his alleged illegal arrest and detention by the Lagos State...
Teenager nabbed for allegedly killing brother
The Police Command in Bauchi has arrested an 18-year-old boy, Abdulrahman Sulaiman, for allegedly stabbing his elder brother to death. Sulaiman allegedly...
Hushpuppi caught in $400k fraud case while in US prison
A Federal Bureau of Investigation agent in the United States has alleged that Instagram celebrity, Ramon Abbas, aka Hushpuppi, received fresh charges as the...
Nigerian Sentenced To 6 Months Imprisonment For Lying To Obtain Ghana Card
A Nigerian, Usman Emmanuel, has been sentenced to 6 months in prison for posing as a Ghanaian to acquire Ghana Card. The Asokore Mampong District...
Prison life taught me to live on N100 for three days – Islamic tutor freed after four years in jail
Sulaimon Anisere, an Islamic tutor who recently regained his freedom after being in prison for four years over false allegation of defiling a minor,...
Chidinma Ojukwu, Super TV CEO, Micheal Ataga’s alleged killer crowned Miss Cell 2022 [PHOTOS]
Miss Chidinma Ojukwu, who allegedly killed the Super TV CEO, Micheal Ataga, has been crowned “Miss Cell, 2022” at the Kirikiri correctional facility. Ojukwu, a...
US Court Jails 24-year-old Nigerian Over Romance Fraud Worth N165million
A 24-year-old Nigerian, Augustine Amechi, has been sentenced to one year and a day in a federal prison in the United States over the role he played in a...
US court sentences Nigerian to one year and a day in prison for stealing
A Nigerian national, Augustine Amechi, 24, has been sentenced to one year and a day in the United States of America federal prison for the receipt of over...
