•The murder suspect, Tetsuya Yamagami The gunman accused of killing Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pled guilty today, three years after the assassination in broad daylight shocked the world. The slaying forced a reckoning in a country with little experience of gun violence, and ignited scrutiny of alleged ties between prominent conse...
•Jair Bolsonaro Brazil’s Supreme Court convicted ex-President Jair Bolsonaro yesterday of coup plotting by a four-to-one vote in a landmark case that could land the far-right leader in prison for years. A majority of four judges found the 70-year-old guilty of plotting to claw back power after his defeat in October 2022 elections by leftist [&...
Acting U.S. Attorney Michael M. Simpson has announced that a Nigerian, Daniel Chima Inweregbu, age 40, pled guilty on August 21, 2025, before United States District Judge Nanette Jolivette Brown to a more than $405,000 romance scam. A statement by the Public Information Officer, United States Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Louisiana, U...
•Julius Malema A South African court has found opposition politician, Julius Malema, guilty of hate speech for telling his supporters at a 2022 rally that they should “never be scared to kill.” Malema, the firebrand leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party, has long been criticised by South Africa’s white minority for his radical [&...
•Mother of the missing child, Kelly Smith (R) A South African court today found a woman guilty of trafficking her six-year-old daughter, who has been missing for more than a year, in a case that has outraged the nation. The two-month trial heard statements from various witnesses that Racquel “Kelly” Smith had revealed to them […]
•A police officer restrains a protester during a ‘Enough is Enough’ demonstration by far-right activists Some appear defiant, others hold back tears. Dozens of far-right rioters are being fast-tracked through UK courts as authorities try to bring a week of violent disturbances to an end. Jake Turton, 38, shakes his head in disagreement, hands ...
The Community Court of Justice, ECOWAS, has ruled that the Federal Republic of Nigeria violated the human rights of Obianuju Udeh and two others. The court found Nigeria in breach of Articles 1, 4, 6, 9, 10, and 11 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, specifically on the right to life, security […]
•Bobrisky Controversial cross-dresser, Idris Okuneye, popularly known as Bobrisky, on Friday, pleaded guilty to the charges of naira abuse.The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had, yesterday, filed six counts of money laundering and abuse of naira against him, reports The PUNCH. But before the charge was read to the defendant, the EFCC...
•Rev. Valerian Okeke The Catholic Archbishop of Onitsha Archdiocese and Metropolitan of Onitsha Ecclesiastical Province, Most Rev. Valerian Okeke has said that not all the inmates of Nigerian Correctional Centers committed the crimes that took them to prisons, reports Vanguard. Okeke, who made this observation in his homily at Onitsha Medium C...
•Peter Nygard Peter Nygard, the founder of one of Canada’s largest clothing brands, was found guilty today on four counts of sexual assault, a court announced in Toronto. The jury, which deliberated for five days, also acquitted the Finnish-Canadian Nygard on one count of sexually assaulting one of the women who testified at the seven-week [&h...
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