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Crime
Man jailed 16 weeks for stealing 2 iPhones
A Kaduna Chief Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday sentenced a man, Rabiu Yusuf, to 16 weeks imprisonment for stealing two iPhones worth N678,000. The Magistrate, Ibrahim Emmanuel, held that the convict failed to give the court a reasonable explanation why he committed the crime. Emmanuel charged the convict to desist from any criminal act or face a more stringent punishment if…
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Man bags 14-year-jail term for raping, impregnating daughter
A Bayelsa State High Court sitting in Yenagoa has sentenced a 41-year-old man, Baridapsi Needam, to 14 years imprisonment for raping and impregnating his daughter. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the victim gave birth to a baby girl in pendency of the trial. The Bayelsa Commissioner for Justice and Attorney-General, Mr Briyal Dambo, in the suit numbered…
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News
Reps propose five-year-jail term for ‘unlawful protesters’
The House of Representatives on Tuesday, presented a bill seeking a five-year-jail term for ‘unlawful protesters’ in the country for consideration. The bill entitled: ‘An act to amend the criminal code act CAP 38, laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 2004, to further preserve the sanctity of human lives and property, and to provide specifically for mob action, prescribe…
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Senate recommends three year jail term for illegal importation of Firearms
The Senate, Wednesday, passed a Bill that prescribes three year jail term for illegal importer or marketer of firearms in Nigeria or a fine of N5 million. The Bill titled: “Firearms Act (Amendment) Bill, 2021” was read for the third time and passed after the lawmakers considered the report of the Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matter.…
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Nigerian jailed 18 years for defiling 13-year-old girl in UK
The Croydon Crown Court in the United Kingdom on Monday sentenced a 64- year-old Nigerian, Adeyinka Oluwaseyi Ajose, to 18 years in prison for defiling a 13-year-old girl in the country. Ajose was convicted after he pleaded guilty for multiple sexual offences against the child. He was arraigned by the British prosecutors on a four-count charge of raping a child…
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Man Who Slapped Macron sentenced to jail
Damien Tarel, the man who was arrested for slapping French President Emmanuel Macron has been given four months in jail. Tarel told the court it was an act of impulse, but the prosecutor said it was a “deliberate act of violence”. President Macron said the attack should not be trivialised but had to be kept in proportion. A second suspect…
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IPOB: Senator Wase wants Sen Abaribe jailed
The Senate Minority Leader Eyinnaya Abaribe was pilloried on Thursday by the Deputy Speaker of the House of Reps, Ahmed Wase over his failure to produce Nnamdi Kanu to face prosecution. Abaribe had stood as a surety for the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader after Kanu was accused of secessionist agitations. It was reported in 2019…
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Money laundering: Igbinedion’s son, Michael, jailed 6 years
The Federal High Court sitting in Benin yesterday sentenced Michael Igbinedion, son of Gabriel Igbinedion and Esama of Benin, to six years imprisonment over laundering of N25 billion belonging to Edo State Government. The court also sentenced Patrick Eboigbodin, an aide to former governor of Edo State, Lucky Igbinedion, to two years jail on each of the 10 counts he…
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Africa
Senegal jails ex-president’s son for six years for corruption
A special court in Senegal sentenced the son of former president Abdoulaye Wade on Monday to six years in prison for corruption and ordered him to pay a 138 billion CFA franc ($228 million) fine, dashing his hopes of competing in elections due in 2017. Karim Wade, in detention since April 2013, was chosen by the main opposition party, the…
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NEWS
PDP Assembly candidate gets bail after 4 months in Edo
A Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) candidate for Egor Constituency in the Edo State House of Assembly, Mr. Nosa Adams, has been granted bail by a Federal High Court after spending four months in prison custody. Adams, who got a bail yesterday in Benin, was remanded in prison custody on November 5th, 2014 by an Egor Magistrate Court over alleged attempted murder.…
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football
Madrid star, Fabio Cannavaro, bags 10-month jail sentence
Real Madrid Star, Fabio Cannavaro, has been sentenced to 10 months in jail for entering his own home. The 41-year-old football coach, who captained Italy to a 2006 World Cup win, is under investigation for tax evasion. The police had seized his villa in Naples. According to Italian prosecutors, Cannavaro; his wife, Daniela Arenoso; and his brother, Paolo, went for…
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