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Chief Magistrate Caroline Oghuma of the Oredo Magisterial District has sentenced Paul Okugbowa, the candidate of the Young Progressives Party, YPP, in the September 2024 governorship election in Edo State, to six months imprisonment for calling a married woman, Mrs Blessing Aigbudu a prostitute.     Okugbowa, 39, the proprietor of Calvary Crown Academy, Benin City, was sentenced with an …

A Jigawa State High Court, presided over by Justice Ado Yusuf Birnin-Kudu, has convicted and sentenced a wife, her husband, her brother and her sister to d3ath by hanging over a case of criminal conspiracy and culpable homicide.   The convicts were arrested in 2019 after being investigated and prosecuted before the court in connection with the offences of criminal …

A Lagos State High sitting in Ikeja, on Wednesday, Dec. 4, convicted and sentenced a couple, Harry Uyanwanne and Oluwakemi Odemuyiwa (a.k.a Kristein Uyanwanne) along with Temple International Church, for stealing N52 million.    Justice Mojisola Dada handed down the verdict after finding them guilty of the offences preferred against them.    The judge also ordered that the third defendant …

An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Wednesday sentenced a couple, Harry Uyanwanne and Kristen Uyanwanne, to 10 years imprisonment for using a church to steal N52 million.   The court also ordered that the Church, Temple International Church, be deregistered and closed down   The couple and the church were charged by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on …

A Magistrate court sitting in Ado Ekiti has remanded human rights lawyer, Dele Farotimi, in prison till December 10, over an alleged case of defamation against the person of the founder of Afe Babalola University, Aare Afe Babalola.   TVC news reports that Farotimi was arraigned before the court this morning September 4, for allegedly publishing a book “Nigeria and …

A barrister accused of forging his mothers signature to cut his younger brother out of his inheritance has lost a court fight over the 1.2 million fortune in the UK. Robert Grierson, 56, who specialises in tax and will disputes, was sued by his 55-year-old brother Duncan, who was left with just 10,000. Robert was given the rest of the estate.The …

Justice Alexander Owoeye of a Federal High Court in Lagos has dismissed a fundamental rights suit filed by Okuneye Idris Olanrewaju, popularly known as Bobrisky, against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).   Bobrisky had sought N200 million from the EFCC for “psychotic trauma” and demanded N1 billion from the National Assembly for the “violation of his right to …

The federal high court in Abuja has discharged and acquitted 50 persons alleged to be members of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) and charged with alleged terrorism.   On Friday, Nov. 29, trial judge James Omotosho ruled that the police failed to establish a prima facie case against the 50 defendants, including four women.   The trial judge upheld the no-case …

The Appeal Court sitting in Lagos has nullified the conviction of Femi Olaleye, managing director of Optimal Cancer Care Foundation, accused of r@pe.    In a ruling delivered today November 29,  the appellate court held that the lower court erred in its judgment as it had no direct evidence to     The appeal court thereafter discharged and acquitted Olaleye. …

The Lagos Division of the Court of Appeal will on Friday, November 29, 2024, rule on the appeal filed by the Medical Director of Optimal Cancer Care Foundation, Dr. Olufemi Olaleye, who is challenging his rape conviction and life imprisonment sentence.   Olaleye was sentenced to life imprisonment on October 24, 2024, for r3ping his wife’s 16-ear-old niece.    Olaleye …