A 41-year-old Canadian national, Adrienne Munju was today October 23, 2024 convicted and sentenced to 11 years imprisonment by a Federal High Court in Lagos for importing 74 parcels of Canadian Loud, a strong strain of synthetic cannabis weighing 35.20 kilograms into Nigeria. A statement by Femi Babafemi, Spokesman of NDLEA said Munju’s convic...
•The culprits A Woolwich Crown Court in London has convicted and sentenced four Nigerians for forging over 2,000 marriage certificates to illegally help people desperate to remain in the United Kingdom. UK Home Office Chief Immigration Officer Paul Moran described the development as an exploitation of people’s desperation following the court’s...
•British police maintain peace on the streets Two men were jailed for a total of five years today for their role in publishing Facebook posts ”intended to stir racial hatred”and also calling for the destruction of a hotel housing 200 asylum seekers in Leeds, during the recent riots in the UK. Jordan Parlour, 28, of […]
•Rape Justice T. N . Nzeukwu of the Imo State High Court has convicted and sentenced a pastor, Desmond Eke, to eight years imprisonment for raping his church member’s wife. Eke, the founder of Deliverance Ministry of the Good Shepherd, Umuehieta Avu, Owerri West Local Government Area of Imo State was found guilty of taking […]
•Ajay Hinduja, his wife Namrata and their lawyer Robert Assael A Swiss court handed jail sentences to four members of Britain’s richest family today for exploiting Indian staff at their Geneva mansion. The Hindujas — who were not present in court — were acquitted of human trafficking, but convicted on other charges in a stunning […]...
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) says it has secured the conviction of Mr. Christopher Oluchukwu, a former Commandant of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) for his involvement in employment scam. In the case filed by the ICPC at the Katsina State High Court 3, the convict was [&he...
•Binance Founder, Changpeng Zhao The founder of cryptocurrency firm, Binance, was sentenced to four months in US prison yesterday after pleading guilty to money laundering charges, in the most high-profile crypto case since Sam Bankman-Fried was jailed. Changpeng Zhao, a Canadian, resigned from his post at the world’s largest cryptocurrency ex...
A shop owner in Iran, Zeinab Khenyab has been sentenced to two years in prison after publishing photos without a headscarf, the U.S.-based human rights network, HRANA, said today. According to the network, Zeinab Khenyab was earlier sentenced to three months in prison in December in another case, for “propaganda against the state.” The woman [...
•Angelo Becciu A former deputy secretary of state in the Vatican and nine others were yesterday found guilty in the enclave’s biggest financial corruption scandal. Cardinal Angelo Becciu, Vatican employees and two outside Italian brokers were among 10 defendants described by prosecutors as “actors in a rotten predatory and lucrative system.” B...
•The jailed health workers Four healthcare workers have been jailed after they were caught on camera physically and emotionally abusing an elderly patient, reports The BBC yesterday. While Ame Tunkara and Morountaro Adefila were found guilty of ill-treatment and wilful neglect and sentenced on December 8 to four months in prison, Danny Ohen an...
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