•Sean “Diddy” Combs US hip-hop star Sean “Diddy” Combs has been transferred to a prison in New Jersey to serve his jail term of four years and two months for prostitution-related crimes, a federal register showed today. Combs is being held in the low-security Fort Dix prison, some 130 kilometers (80 miles) south of New […]
The Supreme Court has discharged and acquitted a Sergeant, Akawu Bala, who has been on death row for over 12 years. Bala, who has been in Kaduna prison, was sentenced to death for murder by the General Court Martial of the Nigerian Army, reports Vanguard. He was accused by the Nigerian Army of shooting one […]
•Farouk Lawan and Femi Otedola The Supreme Court has upheld the five-year sentence of former House of Representatives member, Farouk Lawan, for receiving a bribe of $500,000 from businessman Femi Otedola. Lawan was tried for receiving a $500,000 bribe during a legislative probe into the fuel subsidy regime in 2012. … developing story
•Seyi Makinde No fewer than 33 inmates from various Nigerian Correctional Centres in Oyo state have been granted clemency. Ten of these inmates were released from custodial centres, while four individuals who were on death row have had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment, reports The Nation. Also, 15 inmates had their sentences reduc...
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