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…