Tag: imprisonment
Guard Jailed For Stealing Catholic Priest’s Money
An Abuja Senior Magistrates’ Court sitting in Zone 2 Wuse on Friday sentenced a security guard, Anthony Ogacha, to three…
Businessman Jailed For Theft
An Ikeja High Court on Tuesday sentenced a businessman, Yinka Fagbure, to one year imprisonment for stealing N356,000. Justice Olutoyin…
Housewife Jailed 10 Years For Housekeeper’s Death
An Ikeja High Court on Monday sentenced a 27-year-old woman, Chiamaka Nnajiofor, to 10 years imprisonment for her culpability in…
Woman Jailed For Buying Stolen Blocks
A Grade 1 Area Court in Kuje, FCT, on Monday sentenced a 31-year old business woman, Mary Ajayi, to three…
Teenager Jailed For Selling Cassava-Stuffed Nokia Phone
A 19-year- old street trader, Emeka Chukwumuata, was on Friday sentenced to two months imprisonment by the Special Offences Court,…
6 Jailed For Public Disturbance
An Abuja Grade 2 Area Court in Kado on Tuesday in the FCT sentenced six men to four months imprisonment…
Jilted Lady Pours Hot Oil On Lover
A Karu Senior Magistrates’ Court on Monday sentenced a 25-year old woman, Victoria Alonge, to one year in jail for…
138 Hoodlums Arrested, 66 Sent To Jail
At least 138 suspected hoodlums have been arrested in various parts of Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, by officials of the…
Court Jails 8 Beggars
The Special Offences Court in Alausa area of Lagos, southwest Nigeria, has sentenced eight beggars to one month imprisonment for…
Bus Conductor Bags 2-Year Jail Term
An Ilorin Magistrate’s Court, Kwara State, northcentral Nigeria, has sentenced a 26-year old bus conductor, Rasaq Sikiru, to two years…
Bill Against Terrorism, Kidnapping In Lagos Coming
Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly, southwest Nigeria, are currently considering a bill to criminalise acts of terrorism,…
16 Street Traders Jailed For Attacking KAI Officials
A Lagos magistrate’s court sitting at the Kick Against Indiscipline, KAI brigade office, Alausa Secretariat, Ikeja, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, has…
NBA, Others Back 10-Year Jail Term For Pension Thieves
Some prominent lawyers on Thursday backed the proposal by the Federal Government to enact a law with a provision of…
Plea Bargain And The Yakubu Yusuf’s Verdict
By Akido Agenro The conviction by the Federal High Court, Abuja presided over by Justice Abubakar Talba of John Yakubu…
Oba Sent To Prison For Contempt
An Ota High Court, Ogun State, southWest Nigeria has sentenced Lasisi Kolapo Ogunseye to two months imprisonment for contempt. Chief…
South African Woman Jailed 18 months For Drug Trafficking
By Akin Kuponiyi A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, southwest Nigeria, Wednesday sentenced a 37-year-old South African woman, Mrs.…
Man jailed for Urine in Soup
A 38-year old trader, Taofeeq Shobulo, has been sentenced to six months imprisonment by an Ojokoro Senior Magistrates’ Court, Lagos…
2 Jailed For Stealing Bus
Abdullahi Issa, aged 22, of Tomi Hotel, Suleija in Niger state and Fatai Aweda, 20, of Gidan Alhaji Usman Baba…
Man Jailed 3 Years
An Ikorodu Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Wednesday sentenced a 21-year old man, Odunayo Balogun, to three years imprisonment for…
Man Jailed 3 Years For Assault
An Igbosere Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Monday sentenced a 31-year old man, Oyedele Omotoye, to three years imprisonment for…
The Odds Against Domestic Violence Laws
By Sola Ogunmosunle Domestic violence, also known as domestic abuse, spousal abuse, battering, family violence, and intimate partner violence, is…
EX-Rector Sentenced To 3 Months Imprisonment
A Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting in Makurdi, Benue State, northcentral Nigeria, has sentenced the former Rector of College of Advanced…
Nigerian Man Bags 18 Years Jail Term Over $250,000 Scam
Justice Habeeb Abiru of the Lagos High Court, Ikeja on Monday sentenced Ifeanyi Eze, aka Chedi Ojukwu to 18 years…
Ibori Deserves His Fate —Sagay, Aturu, Falana
Human rights activists and lawyers in the country have hailed the conviction and sentencing of former Governor of Delta State,…
Cable Thief To Spend 6 Months In Jail
An Igbosere magistrate’s court sitting in Lagos, southwest Nigeria, has sentenced a Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, cable thief,…
Contractor Nabbed For Impersonation
A Senior Magistrate at the Oshodi Magistrate’s Court, Lagos, Mrs. O.M. Ajayi has sentenced the contractor of a recharge cards…
Four Jailed For Assaulting Police Officers
A Surulere magistrate court, Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, has sentenced four men to one month imprisonment each for allegedly assaulting…
Love Of Food Takes Man Back To Kirikiri
A three-time convicted criminal, Shakiru Saula, has expressed joy following his conviction again at the Ejigbo Magistrate’s Court. He says…
Court Jails Woman For Contempt
For flouting the order of the court to maintain the status quo, a housewife, Mrs. Chizoba Adeleye, has been sentenced…
26 Movie Pirates Jailed
Twenty-six Persons have been sent to jail for pirating movies. P.M.NEWS learnt that the accused were sentenced to six months…