A 37-year-old man, Uduak Moses Idimudo, has been sentenced to life in prison for raping two teenagers in Eket LGA of Akwa Ibom State. The court was told that Idimudo lured the teenagers, aged 14 and 15, into his room on the promise of giving them change for the fried cow skin meat(pomo) he bought…
Godwin Emefiele, the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has been remanded at the Kuje Correctional Centre by the Federal Capital Territory High Court. He was arraigned before the court on six charge bordering on procurement fraud worth ₦1.2 billion, to which he pleaded not guilty. He applied for bail from the…
A Lagos State High Court sitting in Tafawa Balewa Square on Thursday sentenced a 24-year-old motorcycle rider, Idris Agunbiade, to 21 years imprisonment for armed robbery. Justice Sherifat Sonaike sentenced Agunbiade after she found him guilty of the offence of conspiracy to commit robbery and armed robbery. The judge said that the sentence should run…
Magistrates in Lagos State have been directed to stop granting remand orders to police to detain suspects in their cells. The Deputy Chief Registrar, Legal, High Court of Lagos State, Joy Uggbomoiko, gave the directive in a circular dated October 18, 2023 and titled: “Re: Rejection of new inmates by correctional service.” The circular indicated…
Israel Adesanya, a former UFC middleweight champion has been sentenced to three months in prison for drunk driving, the incident took place on August 19, when Adesanya was pulled over and found with 87 milligrams of alcohol per 100 milliliters of blood in his system. The legal limit in New Zealand is 50 milligrams. In…
