A 40-year-old man, Joseph Alu, who allegedly posted misleading information on social media against a pastor and his church members, was on Monday docked before an Ejigbo Magistrates’ Court, Lagos. Alu, whose residential address was not provided, is standing trial…
A Magistrates’ Court in Jos on Monday sentenced a 42 -year-old businessman, Sabiu Yunusa, to six months imprisonment for stealing 104 pieces of rail track bars. Delivering judgment, Magistrate Tapmwa Gotep, sentenced Yunusa after he pleaded guilty. Gotep however gave…
A Magistrates’ Court in Jos on Monday sentenced 3 traders, Haruna Adamu 23, Hassan Usman 25 and John Peter 21, to six months imprisonment for illegal possession of firearms The Magistrate, Tapmwa Gotep sentenced the traders after they pleaded guilty.…
A 33-year-old man, Ibrahim Orona, who allegedly used a charm to have sexual intercourse with his girlfriend, was on Friday docked in a Magistrates’ Court in Abeokuta. The police charged Orona, who resides at No 35, Ago-oka, Idi-Oparun area in…
An Ota Magistrates’ Court in Ogun on Thursday sentenced a 23-year-old man, Mohammed Abubakar, to three months imprisonment for biting off the pinky finger of another man. The police charged Abubakar, whose address was not provided, with assault. He had…
A Makurdi Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday ordered that two unemployed men be remanded in a correction centre for alleged armed robbery on the Lagos-Jalingo highway. The police charged Tyoyila Edward and Anande Ernest with criminal conspiracy and armed robbery. Magistrate…
A Magistrates’ Court in Ikeja, Lagos State, on Wednesday sentenced a 51-year-old salesman, Kehinde Abdul-Gafar, to six years imprisonment for stealing N1.4 million belonging to his employer. The Chief Magistrate, Mrs. B.O. Osunsanmi, sentenced Kehinde without an option of fine,…
An Ilesa Magistrates’ Court in Osun, on Monday, remanded a 22-year-old man, Kehinde Ola, in Ilesa Correctional Centre over alleged N800,000 fraud. The Prosecutor, Insp Jimoh Mufutau, told the court that the defendant committed the offence sometime in February at…
A 28-year-old man, Abubakar Auwal, on Thursday, appeared before a Kano Magistrates’ Court for allegedly defrauding his employer of N781,949. The defendant, of Badawa Quarters, Kano, is standing trial on a two-count charge, bordering on criminal breach of trust and…
Two men were Friday docked in an Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan for alleged unlawful possession of 14 live cartridges. The police charged Muideen Azeez, 40 and Tajudeen Okunola, 45, whose residential addresses were not provided with one count of…
