PDP Youth Leader Who ‘Insulted’ Buhari, SGF On Facebook Bags One Year Prison Sentence
Chief Magistrate’s Court 4 sitting in Yola, Adamawa State on Monday, sentenced Youth Leader of the Peoples Democratic Party in the Hong Local Government Area, Ikamu Kato, to one year imprisonment for 'insulting' the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari; and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha. The PDP youth leader was remanded in prison custody in a...
Nnamdi Kanu Drags Nigeria, Kenya To Africa Rights Commission
Special Counsel to the leader of Indeginous People of Biafra IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, Mr. Aloy Ejimakor has disclosed that the extraordinary rendition of his client is now a matter before the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights. Ejimakor said that the defendants in the petition are both Nigeria and Kenya governments, whom Kanu is asking to account for...
Court Stops Prosecution Of Suspended INEC REC, Yunusa-Ari
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, stopped the Independent National Electoral Commission from prosecuting the suspended Adamawa Resident Electoral Commissioner, Hudu Yunusa-Ari, over his declaration of Aisha Dahiru, the All Progressives Congress candidate, as governor in the March 18 poll. Justice Donatus Okorowo made the order after Mr. Michael Aondoaka, SAN, counsel to Dahiru, moved the ex-parte motion to...
Rape Children Below 10 Years And Get Death Sentence — Jigawa Govt
The Jigawa State Government has enacted the child protection law that prescribes the death penalty for rapists without the option of life imprisonment. Dr. Musa Adamu, the Commissioner for Justice and the Attorney General, disclosed this on Wednesday during an end-of-the-year press briefing in Dutse, the state capital of Jigawa. According to him, anyone convicted of raping a child below the...
We Only Got Judgment Not Justice, Atiku Says As He Heads To Supreme Court
A former Vice President and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has vowed to approach the Supreme Court to set aside the election of President Bola Tinubu. Atiku, said he was dissatisfied with the judgement of the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, that affirmed President Tinubu as the valid winner of the presidential election held on...
Court Throws Out Suit Seeking To Void Abia PDP Primaries
A Federal High Court sitting in Umuahia, the Abia State capital, on Friday, dismissed a suit seeking to nullify Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primaries in Abia State. The primaries produced Prof. Uche Ikonne as governorship candidate. Seven plaintiffs Messers: Ndudi Nwagbara, Egege Ikedichi, Ochulo Ulonam Junior, Onyedikachi Abaribe, Smile Esinna, Francis Oparocha and Chikwe Chigozie had sued the Independent National Electoral...
32-Year-Old Man Who Stole Ink To Sweep Court For Two Weeks
Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ota, Ogun, on Thursday, ordered a 32-year-old man, Alex John, to sweep the court premises for two weeks for stealing two kegs of printing ink. The police charged John, whose address was not provided, with stealing, which he had pleaded guilty to. Delivering a ruling, Magistrate A. O. Adeyemi ordered the convict to sweep the court premises...
Dismissed Policeman Who Allegedly Caused Father’s Death, Stole On Burial Day Jailed For 27 Months
AN Ebute-Meta Magistrates’ Court, in Lagos, yesterday, sentenced a 36-year-old dismissed police officer, John Dennis, who stole an Iron bar, valued at N6,000 on the day of his father’s burial, to 27 months imprisonment. The Magistrate, Mrs Folarin Williams, sentenced Dennis to two years imprisonment on the first count of stealing and three months imprisonment on the second count of...
Man Bags 15 Months Imprisonment For Stealing Quran In Abuja Mosque
A Grade 1 Area Court sitting at Lugbe, Abuja, on Tuesday, sentenced a labourer, Terkaa Akishi (36) to 15 months in prison for stealing two Qurans and a cell phone from a Mosque in Asokoro area of Abuja. The Judge, Malam Aliyu Kagarko, sentenced Akishi, who pleaded guilty. Kagarko, however, gave him an option of N40,000 fine. Akishi was charged with trespass...
