•Convicted former president Lenin Moreno An Ecuadorian court yesterday sentenced former president Lenin Moreno to five years in prison for accepting bribes from a Chinese company that built the country’s biggest hydroelectric dam. The prosecution said on X that Moreno, who governed from 2017 to 2021, was among 20 people convicted in the case i...
•Portable An Ogun State Chief Magistrate Court, sitting in Ifo Local Government Area, has sentenced controversial street-hop artiste Habeeb Okikiola, popularly known as Portable, to three months in prison, with an option of a N30,000 fine. Portable was found guilty of assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest, reports Vanguard. The musi...
•Bishop Kenneth Duke Bishop of a popular congregation in Abuja, Bishop Kenneth Duke, has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment without an option of fine, for rape. The Bishop was sentenced at a Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting at Gudu, presided over by Hon. Justice Adebiyi Osolo, reports Daily Independent. The 52-year-old convict...
A Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court sitting in Ikeja has sentenced a 24-year-old commercial driver, Abdul Hudu, to life imprisonment for defiling and abducting a 10-year-old girl (name withheld) for three days. Justice Rahman Oshodi held that the prosecution proved beyond reasonable doubt the two-count charge of adduction...
A Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo has sentenced six individuals including a herbalist, to five years imprisonment each for publishing a nude video of ex-speaker of Osun Assembly, Timothy Owoye on the internet after defrauding him of N38million. Recalled that a 13-second video of Timothy Owoeye had gone viral in 2018 where he appeared [&he...
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