Tag: court
Theft: Magistrate orders trader to sweep court premises for 1 month
A Kaduna Chief Magistrates’ Court, on Wednesday, ordered a trader, Usman Khalid, to sweep the court premises for month for stealing two air conditioners.
Khalid, 34,...
Court jails ex-Minister, PDP chair, Jonathan campaign coordinator
A Federal High Court sitting in Jos, Plateau State, has sentenced a former Minister of Water Resources, Sarah Ochekpe, to three months imprisonment for...
Court remands prophet for sexually assaulting 8-year-old girl
An Ekiti State Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ado Ekiti has ordered the remand of 63-yer-old Prophet Akin Aderiye in the Nigerian Correctional Service,...
Ex-Rector must spend two years in jail, court rules
A former Rector of the Federal Polytechnic, Ogwashi-Uku, Delta State, Dr. Edna Mogekwu, has been sentenced to jail for refusing to honour invitations on...
Court declares Eto’o father of 22-year-old Spanish lady
A Madrid court has declared former Barcelona striker, Samuel Eto'o, as the biological father of a 22-year-old Spanish lady, Erika Do Rosario Nieves.
The Cameroonian...
U.S.-trained surgeon bags 27 years for N35m fraud
Justice Abdulazeez Anka of a Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday convicted and sentenced an America-trained medical doctor and surgeon, John Adindu Nweke,...
Court remands father for defiling his 3 daughters in Lagos
An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court, on Monday, ordered the remand of a 43-year-old Ademola Oladimeji in Kirikiri Correctional Centre for allegedly defiling his three daughters...
Court jails MAPOLY student for impersonation
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Tuesday, secured the conviction of a 24-year-old student of Computer Science at Moshood Abiola Polytechnic (MAPOLY),...
$100,000 romantic scam lands 24-year-old man in jail
Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos State on Tuesday, sentenced a 24-year-old man, Olamilekan Akanni Olamide, to one...
Ecobank battles Vigeo, Osibodu in court over N8.7bn debt
Ecobank Nigeria Limited has dragged a Lagos businessman, Mr. Victor Osibodu and his company, Vigeo Limited, before a Federal High Court in Lagos over...
