A 48-year-old businessman, Ibrahim Shehu, on Thursday, appeared before a Gwagwalada Chief Magistrates’ Court, charged with defrauding a man of N1.5million on the pretext of selling a car to him. The police arraigned Shehu, a resident of Old Kutunku, Gwagwalada,…
A Kaduna Chief Magistrates’ Court on Thursday ordered that a 28-year-old man, Illiyasu Garba, be remanded in a correctional centre for allegedly sodomising a 10-year-old boy. The Magistrate, Mr Ibrahim Emmanuel. did not take the plea of Garba for want in jurisdiction.…
A 25-year-old bar attendant Raymond Sunday, was on Thursday arraigned in a Kaduna Chief Magistrates’ Court, for allegedly stealing N300, 000 belonging to his employer. Sunday, a resident of Egypt Road, Barnawa Kaduna, is standing trial on a count charge…
A Federal High Court in Lagos State on Wednesday admitted a Nollywood actress, Oluwadarasimi Omoseyin, charged with alleged tampering and spraying of the redesigned Naira notes to N5 million bail. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) preferred two counts…
An Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court, on Wednesday, ordered the remand of a 23-year-old man, Afolayan Ayomide, in a correctional facility in Ado-Ekiti for alleged burglary and stealing. The defendant, whose address was not provided, is being tried for burglary and stealing.…
An Oyo State High Court in Ibadan has fixed March 27 to hear a fundamental human rights suit filed by female Muslim students of University of Ibadan International School Ibadan (ISI) over alleged refusal of the school to allow them…
The Upper Area Court 4 in Yola, Adamawa State, has sentenced a 21-year-old man to seven years imprisonment for phone snatching. The sentence comes without an option of fine. The presiding judge of the court, Ibrahim Ulenda, convicted and sentenced…
A motorcyclist and an unemployed man were on Wednesday remanded in Lagos State for alleged illegal possession of two locally-made guns. The motorcyclist – Oluwaseun Saka, 39 – and the unemployed, Elijah Adefinuola, 26, reside at 56, College Road, Itamefa,…
A Magistrates’ Court in Kafanchan, Kaduna state, has ordered that a man, Augustine Luka, be remanded in a correctional centre for allegedly threatening to kill his wife. Luka was charged by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) with…
Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court in Ikeja has sentenced a 51-year-old cleric, Nduka Anyanwu, to life imprisonment for defiling and impregnating two biological sisters. Justice Abiola Soladoye convicted the Lagos-based pastor on Tuesday of impregnating a 13…
