A 30-year-old businessma, Onyedikachi Ibe who operates at the Fruits Market in Zuba, has been sentenced to two months of community service by a Dei-dei Grade I Area Court in Abuja. The sentence was handed down after Ibe pleaded guilty…
Three civil servants have been sentenced to six years imprisonment each by an FCT high court for their involvement in payroll fraud. The convicted individuals are Justin Itemoagbo, Dayo Aliyu, and Sylvanus Ojeifo. However, a fourth officer named Dayang Jacob…
Two men, Gabriel Godwin and John Julius, were, on Wednesday, arraigned before a Kaduna Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly stealing property valued at N685,000 from a house. The defendants of no fixed residential addresses are facing a two-count charge…
A Grade 1 Area Court sitting in Lugbe, Abuja, on Wednesday, sentenced four security guards to nine months imprisonment each for stealing sharp sand belonging to a resort. The Judge, Malam Aliyu Kagarko, sentenced the convicts, of Root Resort,…
A driver in Adamawa State, David Donald, has been remanded at a correctional centre in the capital, Yola, after he allegedly consumed large quantities of a local beer called burukutu and refused to pay for it. The defendant also…
A magistrate court sitting in Port Harcourt has remanded 16 Bureau De Change, BDC, operators in the Port Harcourt Correctional Centre for unlawful banking business. This decision by Magistrate Alatuwo Fubara on Wednesday follows an ex parte application submitted…
Justice Peter Kekemeke of a Federal Capital Territory High Court on Tuesday convicted a false investigator, Mohammed Momoh, for defrauding Mario Al -Makura, wife of a former governor of Nasarawa State. Mr Kekemeke convicted Mr Momoh based on the charge…
A Kano State High Court has ordered the Police to arrest a popular Hausa musician, Ado Isa Gwanja. The court sitting presided by Justice Aisha Mahmud affirmed the earlier ruling by an Upper Sharia Court Bichi which ordered the musician’s…
Justice Darius Khobo of the Kaduna State High Court sitting in Kaduna has convicted and sentenced one John Yakubu to three years imprisonment for internet fraud. He was jailed on Friday, February 23, 2024, after pleading guilty to a one-count…
An FCT High Court in Apo adjourned hearing in the preliminary objection filed by a former minister of Power and Steel, Olu Agunloye until March 4. The application is challenging the powers of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)…
