A Grade I Area Court, Dei-Dei, Abuja, on Tuesday sentenced a 23-year-old labourer, Mathew Yakubu to nine months imprisonment for stealing N47,000. Mathew, who lives in Kubwa pleaded guilty to house breaking and theft and begged for leniency. The Judge,…
A Federal High Court in Ibadan on Tuesday sentenced a man, Mubarrak Oyeleke, to 14 months imprisonment for $780 internet fraud. Delivering judgment, Justice Uche Agomoh, held that Oyeleke was convicted based on the evidence tendered before the court, as…
Justice Mahmood Abdulgafar of the Kwara State High Court, Ilorin on Monday, July 5, 2021 sentenced a Lagos based 20-year-old man, Oke Gideon, to 30days imprisonment having found him guilty of offences bordering on romance scam and internet fraud. The long…
A Badagry Prince, Semasa James, is to spend the next one year in prison for using forged documents while administering the estate of his father, late Oba Afolabi James of Kweme land, Badagry. An Ikeja Special Offences Court convicted Semasa…
A 49-year-old man, Gabriel Akinsanmi has been sentenced to four years imprisonment for issuance of dud cheque, contrary to Section 1(1)(b) of the Dishonoured Cheques (Offences) Act, Cap D11, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 and punishable under Section 1(1)(b)(i) of the same…
For falsely representing himself as an officer of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, and testifying in the assumed capacity in a criminal charge, a Sokoto State High Court sitting in Sokoto today March 3, 2021 convicted and…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan zonal office, on Friday, February 12, 2021 secured the conviction of a former Deputy Chief Registrar of the Oyo State High Court, Mutiat Omobola Adio. She was convicted after pleading guilty to…
Justice Darius Khobo of State High Court sitting in Kaduna on January 22, convicted and sentenced one Kamilu Tukur Ruma to Ten years imprisonment for obtaining N 742,000 (Seven Hundred and Forty-two Thousand Naira) from one Zainab Garba as investment in…
A 35-year-old bartender, Godwin Job, was on Tuesday, January 12, 2021 sentenced to eight years in prison for illegally withdrawing the sum of N1,079,290 (One million, Seventy Nine Thousand, Two Hundred and Ninety Naira) from a Fidelity Bank account belonging…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Uyo Zonal Office has secured the conviction of Ekemini Akaninyene, Ikekha Martins and Peter Alban. They were convicted on charges of impersonation, phishing and hacking of e-mail accounts by Justice Adamu Mohammed of the Federal High…
