Tag: conviction
EFCC secures 40 convictions In January
Mr Tony Orilade, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) spokesman, says the commission recorded 40 convictions in January.
Former staff of National Orthopaedic Hospital, Kano convicted
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday secured the conviction of two former employees of the National Orthopaedic…
EFCC records 126 convictions in 2014
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Wednesday said it recorded 126 convictions in 2014. This was contained in…
Army Leadership And Its Convicted Warriors
By Adewale Stephen While the entire country was anticipating the breaking of any cheery news on the missing war jet,…
Pistorius Guilty Of Manslaughter
Celebrity athlete Oscar Pistorius was found guilty on Friday of culpable homicide in shooting dead his glamorous girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp,…
Israel convicts ex-PM Olmert for corruption
A Tel Aviv court on Monday found former premier Ehud Olmert guilty of bribery linked to a Jerusalem property development,…
ICC convicts Congolese warlord
The Congolese warlord Germain Katanga was on Friday convicted of being an accessory to crimes including murder and pillage committed…
Pregnant woman convicted for cannabis trafficking
Justice Mohammed Yunusa of Nigeria’s Federal High Court Lagos on Wednesday sentenced a 28-year-old pregnant woman, Saudat Wasiu, to three…
British woman jailed for drugs blames Nigerian gang
A former British police community support officer Andrea Waldeck, jailed for 14 years in Indonesia after pleading guilty to smuggling…
Man, 28, jailed for stealing 7 pairs of shoes from mosque
A lower court in the Nigerian capital of Abuja has sentenced a 28 year old man to four months in…
Al-Mustapha Must Not Escape Justice —Kudirat’s Children
Following the filing of an appeal at the Supreme Court by the Lagos State Government against Major Hamza Al-Mustapha and…
Italy: Berlusconi party MPs resign to protest conviction
Lawmakers from Silvio Berlusconi’s People of Freedom Party (PDL) tendered their resignation from Italy’s parliament Friday to protest the tax…
WikiLeaks Whistleblower found guilty of espionage
A US military judge found Wikileaks’ source Private Bradley Manning guilty of several counts of espionage on Tuesday but cleared…
NDLEA Arrests 41 With N2.3bn Worth Of Drugs
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at Murtala Mohammad International Airport , Lagos, arrested 41 suspected drug traffickers in…
Cripple, 19 Beggars Sent To Jail
A 45-year old cripple, Sunday Erim Udoyo and 19 others have been convicted by the Special Offences Court in Alausa…