•Jailed couple Femi and Luciana Akanbi A Nigerian couple, Luciana Akanbi and Femi Akanbi, have been sentenced to three years and nine months’ imprisonment in the United Kingdom for orchestrating a large-scale fraud involving stolen personal data of Transport for London employees, according to a report by KentLive. The couple were jailed after ...
A Special Offences and Domestic Violence Court in Ikeja, Lagos, has convicted and sentenced twin brothers, Ojomo Taiwo and Ojomo Kehinde, alongside two others, Emmanuel Bamidele (also known as DPO) and Peter Samuel (also known as Mogaji), to 14 years’ imprisonment each for armed robbery. The trial judge, Justice Olubunmi Abike-Fadipe, delivere...
•Jailed Stephen Akuoko A UK court has handed a suspended prison sentence to a Ghanaian businessman, Stephen Akuoko who stored fish in unsanitary conditions before selling ready meals to local shops. Akuoko operated under the name Tribal Foods in Watford, Hertfordshire, supplying ready meals to supermarkets and corner shops for more than three ...
•Jailed former governor of Russia’s Kursk region, Alexei Smirnov Russia today jailed a former governor of the Kursk border region, where Ukraine’s army broke through in 2024, for 14 years over kickbacks for government contracts related to the construction of fortifications. In August 2024, Ukrainian troops stormed into the western region and ...
A judge yesterday jailed a nursery worker for eight years for a string of “gratuitous” and “sadistic” attacks on babies. In one incident, Londoner Roksana Lecka, 22, kicked a little boy in the face several times, reports AFP. Lecka, who blamed cannabis for her crimes, admitted seven counts of cruelty to a person under the […]
•Jailed Oba Joseph Olugbenga Oloyede Nigerian traditional ruler, the Apetu of Ipetumodu in Osun State, Oba Joseph Oloyede, has been sentenced to more than four years in prison in the United States. Oloyede, 62, who holds dual U.S. and Nigerian citizenship and resides in Medina, Ohio, was on August 26 handed 56 months in prison […]
•Some of the suspects arraigned at the Federal High Court Ikoyi, today The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos today convicted three internet fraudsters who admitted to cybercrime-related offences, while ordering the remand of a fourth defendant who pleaded not guilty. Justice Dehinde Dipeolu delivered the verdict after the convicts pleaded g...
•Rita Idehen A physically-challenged female drug trafficker, Rita Idehen, and six others are to spend 93 years in prison after they were convicted by the Federal High Court sitting in Benin City, Edo State, and jailed for various drug-related crimes in July. Six of the rulings were delivered by Hon. Justice Prof. Chuka Obiozor, while […...
•Timur Ivanov A Russian court jailed ex-deputy defence minister Timur Ivanov for 13 years on corruption charges today, part of a sweeping crackdown on military leaders during Moscow’s Ukraine offensive. Russia has prosecuted more than a dozen military officials and defence sector workers since last year, targeting senior figures accused of ste...
The Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, has sentenced 14 Chinese nationals to prison for cyberterrorism and internet fraud. Justice Daniel Osiagor delivered the judgment today, Friday, June 27, 2025, following their prosecution by the Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), reports The Nation. ...
The Frontier is Nigeria’s leading online newspaper. It is published by Okims Media Links Limited headed by Sunny Okim, a veteran journalist who is widely known as The Grandmaster, fondly called so by colleagues and friends for being Nigeria’s pioneer movie journalist.
© 2026 The Frontier, Published by Okims Media Links Limited.
designed by winnet services
