Tag: Jail Term
Yobe Govt. approves life imprisonment for rapists
The Yobe governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Gaidam, on Monday, signed into law; life imprisonment and 25 years jail term for rape…
Ousted Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif flying home to face jail
Ousted Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam, both sentenced to lengthy jail terms in absentia, are due…
45 Boko Haram members sentenced to multiple years
A Federal High Court sitting in Kainji, Niger, has convicted and sentenced 45 Boko Haram members to between 3 and…
Customs boss says corrupt personnel will get 10-year maximum sentence
The Comptroller General of Customs (CGC) , retired Col. Hameed Ali, on Tuesday warned that any customs officer caught involved…
Rogue bankers bag 91-year jail term for stealing N114.6m
Justice Ibrahim Mairiga of the Kebbi State High Court has convicted Suleiman Ibrahim Musa, Bilyaminu Usman and Lawal Suleiman on…
FRSC Mobile Court Sentences 2 Drivers To Jail
Daniels Ekugo Two drivers belonging to Dangote Company, Sani Ahmed and Umar Musa, have been sentenced to 3 months in…
Man Jailed For Assault
A Wuse Zone 2 Senior Magistrates’ Court, Abuja, on Monday sentenced a man, Elijah Okoro, to one month imprisonment for…
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…
Landlord gets 3-year jail term for evicting tenant with force
An Ado-Ekiti Magistrates’ Court on Friday sentenced a landlord, Iyabo Adakeja, (47), to three years imprisonment for removing a tenant’s…
I Can’t Stop Robbing People —Suspect
Cyriacus Izuekwe A 38-year old suspected armed robber, Farouk Lawal, has confessed that he can’t stop robbing people and that…
Boko Haram members get 75 years jail term
The Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday sentenced three Boko Haram members to 75 years jail term with hard labour.…
‘Prison Turned Me Into Hardened Criminal’
Cyriacus Izuekwe A 38-year old suspected armed robber paraded recently by the police in Lagos State, western Nigeria, has confessed…
Bahrain court upholds five-year jail terms for activists
A Bahraini appeals court Sunday confirmed five-year jail terms imposed on nine Shiites, among them a photojournalist and an online…
Pistorius Guilty Of Manslaughter
Celebrity athlete Oscar Pistorius was found guilty on Friday of culpable homicide in shooting dead his glamorous girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp,…
Taxation: Corrupt People To Face 15-Year Jail Term
Stephen Oni/Ilorin Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria, CITN, has advocated a minimum of 15 years jail term for those…
Man Jailed 25yrs For Attempting To Kill Obama
An Idaho man who admitted trying to assassinate President Barack Obama by shooting at the White House received a 25-year…
Fashola Okays Jail Term For Hazardous Product Sellers
Kazeem Ugbodaga Manufacturers and sellers of fake products to consumers in Lagos State will now face a three-month jail term…
Saudi Arabia: 4 Men Get 10-Year Jail, 2000 Lashes For Public Dancing
A Saudi court has sentenced four men to up to 10 years in prison and 2,000 lashes for dancing “naked”…
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…
Malaysia jails Nigerian student for heroin
A Nigerian student has been sentenced to 12 years’ jail and 10 strokes of the cane by the High Court…
Stockbroker jailed for defrauding clients
An Ikeja High Court on Thursday sentenced a stockbroker, Ayoola Coker, to 30 years imprisonment for stealing N17.5 million shares…
7 Rapists Jailed 52 Years
Seven rapists have been jailed by various family courts for aggregate 52 years for raping adult female and minor girls…
Boko Haram, Ansaru Banned as terrorist groups
Boko Haram and Ansaru, Nigeria’s terror groups have been banned and members and associates would bag up to 20-year jail…
University teacher jailed in Zimbabwe for Mugabe insult
A lecturer at a government university in Zimbabwe has been jailed for three months for labelling veteran President Robert Mugabe…
Breaking News: Okah, MEND leader jailed 24 years
Henry Okah, leader of Nigeria’s militant group, Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta, MEND, was jailed Tuesday by South…
‘Yes, I Stole’, Estate Agent Begs Judge For Leniency
A convicted estate agent, Emma Emmanuel, has pleaded with the presiding magistrate, Mrs. S.O. Solebo to give him a short…
Woman Bags 180 Years Imprisonment
An Ikeja High Court, Lagos, Nigeria, has sentenced a middle-aged woman, Ritchko Taiwo Roselyna to 180 years imprisonment for obtaining…