•Zou Zhenhao A Chinese student who drugged and raped 10 women in the UK and China was jailed for life today with a minimum term of 22 years. Passing sentence, UK judge Rosina Cottage said that to the world Zhenhao Zou, 28 appeared “well to do, ambitious and charming” but this was in fact a […]
•Atiku Former Vice President and Founder of the American University of Nigeria (AUN), Atiku Abubakar, has reiterated his conviction that education is the most transformative force for personal and national development. He stated this while addressing AUN graduating class of 2025. “My father was jailed for resisting my enrollment in school,” he...
•Ugandan Judge Lydia Mugambe A UK court yesterday jailed a United Nations judge for six years and four months after she was found guilty of forcing a young woman to work as her maid. Ugandan judge Lydia Mugambe, 50, was convicted under Britain’s Modern Slavery Act of taking “advantage of her status” over the victim […]
Justice Olubusola Okunuga of an Ikeja Special Offences Court on Wednesday sentenced one Abubakar Sani to one year imprisonment for fraudulent conversion of N1,133,808,604.31. Justice Okunuga convicted Sani following his guilty plea. The convict was arraigned before the court on amended information dated today, Wednesday, April 30, 2025, report...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has secured a combined 95-year sentence for four convicted drug kingpins, including Ogbuji Christian Ifeanyi, Iloduba Augustine Chinonye, Shuaibu Nuhu Isa (also known as Don), and Zidon Zurga, for trafficking cocaine and high-potency cannabis (skunk) worth over ₦4.6 billion. The Federal High Cou...
The Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court yesterday convicted and sentenced an Arabic teacher, Oladosu Sakiru, to 21 imprisonment for attempting to sexually assault a 13-year-old female pupil. The trial judge, Justice Rahman Oshodi, sentenced Sakiru following his guilty plea to the amended two counts of attempted sexual assault by ...
•Obasanjo and late General Abacha Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has revealed that his outspoken nature on national and international issues led to his imprisonment under the military regime of the late Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, in 1995. Obasanjo also shared that his decision to seek the presidency in 1999 was driven by the [&hellip...
•Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar A United States-based Nigerian, Oluwole Adegboruwa, and his accomplice, Enrique Isong, have been sentenced to 40 years combined jail term for coordinating the sales and distribution of a banned drug through the dark web across several states in the US. It was gathered from a statement obtained on the ...
An Oredo Chief Magistrate Court in Benin, Edo State has sentenced the proprietor of Calvary Crown Academy, Paul Okugbowa, and three teachers to prison for negligence and insulting a parent. The presiding Magistrate, Caroline Oghuma, in the judgment delivered today, sentenced Okugbowa to six months imprisonment with an option of N100,000 fine f...
•Jailed Daniel Mukhametov An engineer at a Russian tank manufacturer has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for high treason, after being found guilty of giving military information to Ukraine, a court said today. The regional court in Sverdlovsk said Daniel Mukhametov, 32, was working as an engineer at Uralvagonzavod in Nizhny Tagil in [&he...
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