•The convict, Fatima Sanda A Borno State High Court sitting in Maiduguri has sentenced a 37-year-old woman, Fatima Sanda, to two years’ imprisonment for procuring a 16-year-old girl for sexual exploitation. It was learnt yesterday that the conviction was secured by the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons on Monday, re...
•Convicted former Ecuadorian President Abdalá Bucaram Ecuador’s judiciary sentenced former President Abdala Bucaram and his son Jacobo to nine years and four months in prison yesterday in a corruption case linked to the sale of medical supplies during the coronavirus pandemic. Bucaram, who was removed from office in 1997, heard the decision re...
•UK flag A British funeral director is facing prison today over a scandal that saw bodies left uncremated while relatives were handed other people’s ashes, sparking calls for better regulation of the industry. An ex-employee described Robert Bush’s funeral parlour as “something from a horror scene”, prosecutor Chris Paxton said at the start of...
•Refuse heaps on the road median in Ketu in Lagos Residents of the Agboyi-Ketu Local Council Development Area in Lagos State who fail to place waste bins or drums in front of their homes may face a fine of N50,000 or up to six months’ imprisonment if a proposed environmental bye-law is passed into law. […]
•Jimmy Lai A Hong Kong court today sentenced pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai to 20 years in prison for national security crimes, a punishment rights groups condemned as “effectively a death sentence” and a symbol of the city’s shrivelling press freedoms. Lai, a British citizen and founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper, was found...
•Prison A United States court has sentenced a Nigerian national, Tochukwu Albert Nnebocha, to 97 months’ imprisonment for participating in a transnational inheritance fraud scheme that targeted elderly and vulnerable Americans. According to a statement published on the US Department of Justice website yesterday, “a Nigerian National was senten...
•Wike and striking workers The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has applied for a National Industrial Court order to commit the striking workers of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) to prison over their alleged disobedience of the court order. Wike’s alleged disobedience by the workers arose from resump...
The Lagos State High Court in Ikeja has authorised the service of contempt proceedings through national newspapers against senior pastors and top police officers over the alleged disobedience of a subsisting court judgment on a prime parcel of land at the Gbagada Industrial Estate, Lagos. Justice O.A. Ogala, on November 4, granted leave to 11 ...
•Late ex-President Muhammadu Buhari (centre) and members of his cabinet at the State House An All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, Alwan Hassan, has claimed that 95 per cent of ministers who served under former President Muhammadu Buhari should be behind bars, alleging that their tenure was a period of unchecked power and alleged corrup...
•Palestinians gather on a street in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip They were freed in exchange for Israeli hostages held in Gaza, but instead of going home, 154 Palestinian ex-prisoners were exiled to Egypt, where they are confined to a hotel and kept under tight surveillance. All of them had been sentenced by Israeli […]
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