An Osun State High Court sitting in Osogbo today, Thursday, April 18, sentenced a 34-year-old businessman, Kola Adeyemi, and a battery charger, Wasiu Afolayan (36yrs) to death by hanging over armed robbery and murder. The prosecution counsel, Bewaji Adeniji from the Ministry of Justice, upon arraignment, dragged the two before Justice Ayo Oyeb...
•Sentenced Vietnamese property tycoon Truong My Lan (C) A top Vietnamese property tycoon was sentenced to death yesterday in one of the biggest corruption cases in history, with an estimated $27 billion in damages. A panel of three hand-picked jurors and two judges rejected all defence arguments by Truong My Lan, chair of major developer [&hel...
An Enugu State High Court, sitting in Enugu, has sentenced, Chiamaka Ifezue to death by hanging for killing an Enugu-based make-up artist, Ijeoma Nweke. The court, presided over by Justice Kenneth Okpe, in a two-hour judgement on Wednesday, found the accused, Chiamaka Ifezue, guilty of killing the victim by forcing her to drink a poisonous [&h...
•Rivers State High Court A High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has convicted and sentenced three men on charges of kidnapping. Although four suspects were arraigned in court for the kidnap of late Chief Abbot Ogbobula in June 2017, only three were convicted while the fourth suspect was discharged and acquitted, reports Channels ...
A Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo has sentenced six individuals including a herbalist, to five years imprisonment each for publishing a nude video of ex-speaker of Osun Assembly, Timothy Owoye on the internet after defrauding him of N38million. Recalled that a 13-second video of Timothy Owoeye had gone viral in 2018 where he appeared [&he...
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