•Senegal supporters clash during the Africa Cup of Nations (CAN) final football match between Senegal and Morocco Moroccan prosecutors today sought jail terms of up to two years for 18 Senegalese football fans imprisoned in Rabat since last month’s AFCON final over “hooliganism”. Seeking the maximum penalty for some, the prosecution told the ...
•Habeeb Okikiola popularly known as Portable A State High Court in Ota, Ogun State, has denied bail to controversial singer Habeeb Okikiola, popularly known as Portable. The singer was being arraigned on a nine-count criminal charge bordering on assault, theft, causing harm, and resisting arrest, reports Channels TV. The presiding judge declin...
The Edo State High Court, Criminal Court 2, has ordered the remand of some youths involved in the protest that rocked the Ekpoma area of the state at the Ubiaja Correctional Centre. This followed the plea of the prosecution for a 14-day remand period, reports Channels TV. Our correspondent observed that some of the protesters […]
•Tinubu and detainee The detention of social media commentator Abubakar Salim Musa at the Keffi Correctional Centre has sparked widespread outrage across Nigeria, with netizens, activists and political leaders condemning what they describe as an attack on free speech. Musa, popularly known as @AM_Saleeeem on X, was reportedly arrested on Janua...
•Ambassadorial nominees A former permanent secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Joe Keshi, has faulted the ambassadorial list sent to the Senate by President Bola Tinubu for confirmation. Keshi questioned the character of some of the nominees, who he claimed should have no business being in the diplomatic service “by any standard”. “I...
•Baba Ijesha Nollywood actor, Olarenwaju Omiyinka , popularly known as Baba Ijesha, has been released from prison following the Court of Appeal judgment that overturned his conviction for the sexual assault of a minor. It was earlier reported that the actor was arrested in 2021 and, in July 2022, the Lagos State High Court in […]
•The US Supreme Court in Washington, DC The US Supreme Court yesterday heard the case of a devout Rastafarian who is seeking damages after his knee-length dreadlocks were forcibly shorn while he was in prison in Louisiana. Damon Landor is seeking permission to sue individual officials of the Louisiana Department of Corrections for monetary dam...
•Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy France’s ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy left home today to head to jail after being found guilty of seeking to acquire Libyan funding for his 2007 presidential run. He walked out of his home hand-in-hand with his singer wife, Carla Bruni, and left in a car escorted by police on motorbikes, reports [&helli...
•Cedric Jubillar A Frenchman whose wife disappeared during the Covid-19 pandemic and whose body was never found was sentenced to 30 years in prison today for murdering her, in a case that has gripped France. Cedric Jubillar, a 38-year-old painter and plasterer, had said he had done “absolutely nothing” to his wife, Delphine, whose body [&helli...
•Sean ‘P. Diddy’ Combs Sean “Diddy” Combs was sentenced to more than four years in prison yesterday for prostitution-related crimes, capping a dramatic, all-day court hearing during which the music mogul apologised and begged for mercy. Prosecutors had sought 11 years behind bars for the 55-year-old Combs, but District Judge Arun Subramanian h...
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