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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 …

As protesters continue to pour into the streets throughout Israel, condemning a bill passed on Monday by the right-wing government to blunt the power of the country’s judiciary, the Israeli Supreme Court faces a momentous decision: How should it respond to a challenge to its own power? The new law …

Hollywood actor, Kevin Spacey was pictured arriving at a court in London today for the final day of his s3x assault trial.   The  Oscar winner, 63, is accused of assaulting four men ‘for his own sexual gratification’ between 2001 and 2013.   Jurors have heard claims that the House …

President Bola Tinubu has appealed to justices of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PREPEC) in Abuja to exclude the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, in the event of any rerun presidential election, claiming that only he and the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji …