A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State has convicted and sentenced six oil thieves to various terms of imprisonment. The defendants, Abubakar Lawan; Okwe Victor; Justice Samson; Baffa Abubakar, Usman Mohammed and Chris Chinda were jailed on different…
Makurdi Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday remanded three persons for allegedly impersonating a public servant and forgery. The Magistrate, Mrs Ajuma Igama, did not take the plea of the defendants for want of jurisdiction. Igama ordered that the defendants – Terseer…
An Upper Area Court in Jos on Tuesday sentenced a 28-year-old labourer, Moses Sunday to 30 months imprisonment for stealing N100,000. A panel of two Magistrates sentenced Sunday after he pleaded guilty to three counts of conspiracy, breaking and theft.…
A 43-year-old man, Adams James was on Monday arraigned in a Kaduna Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly forging a land documents belonging to his brother. The defendant, a resident of Narayi High Coast Kaduna, is standing trial on a one-count…
Justice Darius Khobo of the Kaduna High Court on Wednesday sentenced one Gabriel Victor to five months’ imprisonment for forging a document to stand as surety for a suspect. Victor was arraigned by the Kaduna Zonal Office of the Economic…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Tuesday charged two men, Sunday Egbide and Emmanuel Nwaka, in a Federal High Court Lagos over alleged drug trafficking. Nwaka, 36, and Egbide 38, are being tried on one-count of unlawful transport…
A 40-year-old man, Gbadamosi Abiodun, on Tuesday was brought before an Ota Magistrates’ Court in Ogun for allegedly defrauding a man of N885,000. Abiodun, whose address was not provided, is facing a three-count charge of stealing, fraud and conspiracy. The…
By Akintunde Jacobs, Akure An Ondo State Magistrate Court, sitting in Akure has sentenced a 36-year-old woman, Opeyemi Omoyemi to four and half years in prison for brutalising and inflicting body injuries on his 12-year-old house help identified as Joel…
A Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting at Ebute Meta, Lagos State, on Monday, remanded a 30-year-old motorcycle rider, Sanusi Aliu, for allegedly stabbing a police officer to death with a scissors and one other. The defendant was arraigned on a two-count…
The ongoing war against the circulation of substandard and falsified medicines in Nigeria by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) received a boost on Tuesday when a Federal High Court in Awka, Anambra State sentenced…
