•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 […]
A Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Court sitting at Awka, Anambra State, has sentenced a 34-year-old school teacher to 12 years imprisonment for raping an 11-year- old, JSS 1 student. The defendant, Pascal Ofomata, was charged with rape and inflicting physical harm punishable under section 3(1), 4 (1) respectively of the Violence against Perso...
•Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State The Lagos State Ministry of Environment and Water Resources has said it will impose a ₦ 250,000 fine or a month’s jail term on environmental offenders from July 1, 2025. The ministry said offenders who dump refuse illegally, litter the streets, or deface the environment would face penalties. The [&he...
Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Lagos Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court has sentenced two men, Chukwuka Odinaka and Ikechukwu Eze, to 10 years imprisonment each for the sexual assault of a minor. The judge found them guilty on a two-count charge bordering on indecent treatment and sexual assault of a 16-year-old boy, reports The [&helli...
A General Court Martial (GCM) sitting at the Headquarters, 82 Division, Nigerian Army, Enugu, has sentenced a soldier, Private Adamu Mohammed, to death by hanging and another, Private Abubakar Yusuf, to 10 years’ imprisonment. The sentences were handed down after due consideration for the offences of murder and robbery for which the soldiers s...
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