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The woman charged with drunkenly crashing her car into a golf cart killing a just-married bride, and putting the husband in the ICU, sobbed in court Tuesday, August 1 as a judge refused to release her from jail on bail. Jamie Lee Komoroski, 25, who appeared in Charleston County Detention …

Plateau state Commissioner of Police, Bartholomew Onyeka, has been instructed by an area court sitting in Bukuru Jos South Local Government Area of the state, to unseal all the 17 local government secretariats in the state.   The police chief sealed the secretariats following the removal of the elected chairmen …

The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP in the February 25, 2023, Presidential election, Atiku Abubakar, attended a hearing at the Presidential Election Petition Court PEPC today August 1.    Atiku is challenging the emergence of President Tinubu as the winner of the election. Atiku arrived at the …

A 30-year-old legal practitioner, Thubelihle Sbonakaliso Mpisi, was remanded in custody for murdering his girlfriend and burning her body inside a vehicle.      LIB reported that Mpisi appeared at the Alexandra Magistrates’ Court on Monday, July 31, on allegations of killing Mahlako Malebo Rabalao, the mother of his child …

Justice Adenike Akinpelu of the Kwara State High court on Monday, July 31, 2023, sentenced three students to jail for conspiring to gang rape a 17-year-old girl.   The convicts, Omotosho Yahaya, 23, who is the cousin of the victim, Mustapha Ahmed, 23 and 22-year-old Mustapha Ridwan are students of …

Wild camping is once again allowed on Dartmoor after the national park won a successful appeal against a ruling in a case brought by a wealthy landowner. Camping had been assumed to be allowed under the Dartmoor Commons Act since 1985, until a judge ruled otherwise in January. It was …

The Lagos state police command has arraigned a 36-year-old panel beater identified as Lukman Alao, before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court for allegedly stealing his customer’s car’s catalytic converter valued at N400,000.   According to the prosecutor, Inspector Segun Oke, the defendant who resides at 17, Emmanuel St., Onigbongbo Maryland, Lagos, …

Popular Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey has been found not guilty in Britain of nine alleged sex offences against men, which follows the Oscar winner’s being cleared in a US case. The star of “American Beauty” and drama series “House of Cards”, who turned 64 on Wednesday, was acquitted by majority …

Publisher and former Presidential candidate. Dele Momodu, has condemned the clash operatives of the Department of State Security DSS had with men of the Nigeria Correctional Service, NCS, at the Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday July 25, over suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele.  …

  The Department of State Services (DSS) has finally arraigned Godwin Emefiele, former governor of the Central Bank (CBN) in court.   Emefiele has been in detention since President Bola Tinubu suspended him last month. The DSS had arrested Emefiele at his Lagos residence and flew him in a private …