Tag: imprisonment
Lagos man Nonso Ekeocha jailed over fraudulent documents
Ekeocha was prosecuted by the Lagos Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on a one-count charge bordering…
Guard bags 3 years imprisonment for abducting, raping minor
An Upper Area Court 3, sitting in Kasuwan Nama, Jos, on Tuesday, sentenced a 67-year-old guard to three years in…
3 women sentenced to 45 days imprisonment for fighting
A Karmo Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, on Friday sentenced three women to 45 days imprisonment for fighting and biting…
Human trafficker sentenced to 7 years imprisonment
A Benin High court in Edo State has sentenced a 47-year-old human trafficker, Richard Ehigie, to seven years imprisonment.
Man bags 4 months imprisonment for stealing
An Upper Area Court, sitting in Kuje, on Tuesday, sentenced a 22-year-old Kabiru Ibrahim to four months imprisonment for stealing…
Imprisonment of 80 teenagers unlawful – LASG
The Lagos State Government has described the imprisonment of 80 underage children recently set free from different prisons across the…
Ex-Croatian PM sentenced to 4yrs imprisonment for corruption
Former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader was on Friday sentenced to four and a half years imprisonment for a corruption…
Man nabbed for imprisoning 105-year-old Reverend
An Akure Magistrates’ Court on Friday ordered the remand of one Robert Ogwuruba, 55, in prison custody for the alleged…
Eviction order: Five Shell officials to appear in court, risk imprisonment
Five senior officials of Shell Petroleum Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) are expected to appear before the High Court of…
Man, 35, bags seven years imprisonment for rape
A 35-year-old man, Stanley Edomwonyi, was on Wednesday in Benin sentenced to seven years imprisonment for raping a nine-year-old girl.…
Man bags three-month imprisonment for N10m fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Friday, November 13, 2015 secured the conviction of one Ibrahim Abdullahi who…
Prostitution: Lagos court jails 30 women for 6 weeks
An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Monday sentenced 30 women to six weeks imprisonment for prostitution. Those sentenced are…
Court Convicts Teacher For Fraud
A 48-year-old teacher, Ismaila Mohammad, was on Tuesday sentenced to 12 months imprisonment by a Lugbe Grade 1 Area Court,…
Dismissed Soldier Jailed For Burglary
Cyriacus Izuekwe A dismissed Army officer, Awolu Ado, arrested for burglary, stealing and impersonation, has been sentenced to two and…
Herdsmen bag 3 months imprisonment for stealing chickens
A Magistrates’ Court in Minna on Wednesday sentenced two Fulani herdsmen, Ali Yusuf and Buhari Saleh, to three months imprisonment…
Man Jailed For Assault
A Wuse Zone 2 Senior Magistrates’ Court, Abuja, on Monday sentenced a man, Elijah Okoro, to one month imprisonment for…
Prophet Jailed 7yrs For Absconding From Court
Cyriacus Izuekwe Prophet Destiny Onwudinjo of Heaven Divine Ministry, Shasha, a suburb of Lagos in western Nigeria, has been sentenced…
Lagos Judiciary Official Jailed For Fraud
Henry Ojelu Justice Latifa Okunnu of an Ikeja High Court on Monday sentenced a staff of the probate division of…
Man bags 3 months for constituting public nuisance
A Karu Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, on Monday sentenced a 30-year old man, Okan Kingsley of Udo Udoma St.,…
Indian who kidnapped self bags 1 year imprisonment
A Senior magistrates’ Court in Wuse Zone 2, Abuja, on Monday, sentenced one Mishal Vishwanath, an Indian, to one year…
Poly Student Jailed For Stealing Laptop
Cyriacus Izuekwe A 30-year-old student of Lagos State Polytechnic, Isolo campus, western Nigeria, who regained freedom after spending two years…
Man Jailed 7 Yrs For Stealing TV
Cyriacus Izuekwe A 25-year-old man, Robert Abariko, has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment with hard labour for stealing three…
Teacher sentenced to life imprisonment for defiling pupil, 11
Jethro Ibileke/Benin A Benin City High Court has sentenced a 35 year-old teacher, Bright Asiruwa, to life imprisonment for defiling…
Fraud: Businessman Jailed 9 Years
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Justice T. U. Uzokwe of the Abia State High Court, Aba, has convicted and sentenced Alozie David to…
2 Policemen Jailed For Raping Woman
Two Tunisian policemen have been sentenced to seven years in prison for raping a young woman in a case that…
Man Jailed For Life For Drug Trafficking
An Abuja Federal High Court on Friday sentenced a 36-year-old man, Callistus Chukwukelu, to life imprisonment for unlawful importation of…
Fashola Signs Anti-Smoking Bill Into Law
Kazeem Ugbodaga Governor Babatunde Fashola has signed a bill banning smoking in public places in Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, into…
Randy Pastor, 62, Jailed For Defiling Girl, 10
Jethro Ibileke/Benin A 62-year old randy pastor, Alfred Idonogie was on Friday sentenced to two years in prison by an…
2 Women Jailed For Begging With Kids
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Family Court 1 in Yaba Magistracy has jailed two women for trafficking and using children to beg…
Court Threatens To Jail Edo Commissioner
A Benin City Magistrates’ Court has threatened to commit Edo State Commissioner for Transport, Mr. Orobosa Omo Ojo, to jail…