•South Korea’s impeached former President Yoon Suk Yeol A South Korean court sentenced ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol to life in prison today after finding him guilty of leading an insurrection with his martial law declaration in 2024. Yoon abruptly declared martial law in a televised address in December 2024, saying drastic measures were needed ...
A Lagos Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court has sentenced a security guard, Emmanuel Buchi, to life imprisonment for raping a 37-year-old married nurse in a school clinic. Delivering judgment today, trial judge, Justice Rahman Oshodi, held that the prosecution successfully proved the offences of rape and assault occasioning harm agains...
The Lagos State Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja has sentenced a trader, Abdullahi Sale, to life imprisonment for kidnapping and defiling his 13-year-old neighbour, name withheld. Justice Rahman Oshodi handed down the verdict after finding Sale guilty of a two-count charge of defilement and abduction brought against him by the state gov...
•(R-L) Racquel “Kelly” Smith, Steveno van Rhyn, and Jacquen Appollis listen to proceedings in court in Saldanha Bay today A South African court today sentenced a woman to life in prison for kidnapping and selling her six-year-old daughter, in a case that horrified the country. Joshlin Smith went missing in February last year from her […...
•The suspect A 31-year-old Nigerian man, Adimabua Chukwuka, is facing a possible life sentence after being charged with the first-degree murder of a 60-year-old homeless man, Mario Ferreira, in Toronto, Canada. It was gathered yesterday that Chukwuka was arrested last Friday by the Toronto Police Service’s 52 Division following a tip from the ...
An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court has sentenced a Muslim cleric (Alfa), Alani Rafiu, to life imprisonment for raping a 14 –year- old girl inside a mosque. Justice Rahman Oshodi handed down the sentence yesterday after finding Rafiu guilty of the offence of child defilement, reports NAN. Rafiu was arraigned on October 28, [&h...
•Rape Justice Abiola Soladoye of the Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, yesterday, sentenced a head teacher, Benjamin Ogba, to life imprisonment for defiling two underage girls, who are both seven years old. The judge held that the prosecution proved the case beyond a reasonable doubt, with the ingredients of defilement to the ...
•Rape An Ekiti State High Court, Ado Ekiti Division, has sentenced a 71 years old man, Sule Adeola, to life imprisonment for raping a 10-year-old girl. The defendant was charged to court on June 22, 2023, on a one-count charge bordering on rape, reports The PUNCH. The charge read, “That Sule Adeola on 2nd June […]
The Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court yesterday sentenced a 27-year-old cleaner, Saviour Udoh, to life imprisonment for sexually assaulting a five-year-old girl on a church premises. Justice Ramon Oshodi held that the prosecution was able to prove the offence of defilement against the convict without reasonable doubt, stating t...
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