A High Court sitting in the Obi Local Government Area of Nasarawa State has sentenced a senior lecturer in the Department of History and International Studies at the Federal University, Lafia, Dr Fred Ayokhai, to six months imprisonment. Fred, who has been in the custody of the Nigeria Correctional Service, …
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AN Ikeja special offences court has sentenced a retired staff of the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA) Nasiru Ogara, to 14 years imprisonment over N24.3m fraud. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arraigned Ogara and New Age Motor Waste Basket Limited on a four-count charge of fraud. The Commission’s counsel, …
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A Paris court on Friday sentenced Lebanese-Canadian citizen Hassan Diab to life in prison in absentia for the 1980 bombing of a synagogue in which four people died. The court followed prosecutors’ request for the maximum possible punishment against Diab, now 69 and a university professor in Canada. Prosecutors had …
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A couple and five police operatives were on Friday killed by gunmen in Okpala Junction, Ngor Okpala Local Government Area of Imo State. The coupled identified as Mr and Mrs Chinaka Nwagu hailed from Amankwo Okpala community in the state. The junction and community have since been thrown into panic …
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THE lifeless body of a young man was discovered on Thursday morning, April 20, hanging from a tree at Village bus stop, along LASU-Isheri Road, Ojo, Lagos State. The man is suspected to have died by su*cide. A resident disclosed that the corpse remained there for hours. The source added: “We …
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JUSTICE Babs Kuewumi of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Tuesday, April 18, 2023, adjourned till May 30 and 31, 2023 for further hearing in the alleged N2.8bn fraud trial involving a former Managing Director of Nigerian Airspace Management Authority, NAMA, Ibrahim Abdulsalam and others. Abdulsalam is …
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A Family Court in Iyaganku, Oyo State on Thursday ordered that a 14-year-old boy, who allegedly defiled a 22-month-old baby, be remanded in the Agodi Corrections facility. The boy, though a minor, was charged with defilement. Chief Magistrate P. O. Adetuyibi did not take the plea of the minor for …
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DELTA State Government on Thursday confirmed that a rainstorm claimed no fewer than seven lives, with others injured. The state Commissioner for Information, Mr Charles Aniagwu, who disclosed this at a news conference in Asaba, said the victims included a 10-year-old boy. According to Aniagwu, deaths were recorded in Oko …
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THE Kaduna State Police Command has said the operatives arrested seven suspected kidnappers. DSP Mohammed Jalige, Public Relations Officer of the command, in a statement, said the arrest of the kidnappers followed a marching order handed down by the acting Commissioner of Police, DCP Mamman B. Giwa to Divisional Police …
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President-elect, Bola Tinubu has appointed 13 Nigerians into the Presidential Inauguration Committee ahead of the May 29 ceremony. Tinubu listed the names in a letter to the Secretary to the Government of Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, Chairman of the Presidential Transition Council (PTC). Abdulazeez Yar’Adua, a younger brother of the …
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