A Delta State High Court sitting in Otu-Jeremi in Ughelli South Local Government Area has ordered the remand of Mr Okiemute Kasia in the custody of the Nigerian Correctional Service in Okere, Warri, for allegedly defiling his girlfriend’s two-year-old daughter…
Bobrisky: Panel uncovers preferential treatment, corruption in prison …submits recommendations for Correctional system reforms The panel tasked with investigating allegations surrounding convicted cross dresser, Idris Okuneye, also known as Bobrisky has stated that its investigation has uncovered possible preferential treatment…
An investigative panel on Monday said there was no evidence that popular crossdresser, Idris Okuneye aka Bobrisky slept outside the prison during his six-month jail term. The Executive Director and founder of Prisoners’ Rehabilitation and Welfare Action, Uju Agomoh, disclosed…
By Ismail Azeez, Osogbo An Osun State High Court sitting in Ede, has sent the Elegbedi of Egbedi in Egbedore Local government area of State, Oba MuideenAzeez, alongside four others to Ife Correctional Centre over alleged arson and destruction of…
By Adeyanju Esther The Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos, Justice Dehinde I. Dipeolu delivered a decisive verdict against Ikpaka Courage, a graduate of Philosophy. Courage had been convicted and sentenced to two years in prison for impersonating the renowned…
An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court has handed down a five-year prison sentence to Mohammed Abdulhamid, a 22-year-old trader residing in the Ayobo area of Lagos, for receiving stolen property worth N2.19 million. Abdulhamid pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy and receiving…
A Magistrate Court sitting in Port Harcourt , Rivers State, has convicted and sentenced a man in his fifties, Anayor Ugo, to seven years imprisonment without the option of a fine for defiling and impregnating a 12-year-old girl. Ugo,…
A Kaduna Chief Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday sentenced Michael Timothy, 40, to two years in prison for N1.8 million visa fraud. After pleading guilty to the crime, Timothy was sentenced without the option of a fine by Trial Magistrate Ibrahim…
An Ondo State Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Akure has ordered the remand of a man, Sunday Clement, in prison custody for allegedly killing a farmer, Taye Alatoye. Following the incident, the 24-year-old labourer defendant was arrested by the men…
A prison warder, Joseph Fatunbi, alleged to have aided the escape of some inmates, was on Wednesday arraigned before a Magistrates’ Court in Yaba, Lagos State. He was, however, granted bail by Magistrate Linda Balogun. Fatunbi was arraigned on one…
