An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, ordered the remand of Jonathan Oludare, 32, charged with def!ling a 16-year-old girl. Oludare, a resident of Ijora Badia was charged with a one count of def!lement. The Chief Magistrate, E. Kubeinje who did not take the defendant’s plea, ordered his remand in a Correctional facility in Lagos. Kubeinje subsequently adjourned …
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Seventeen members of an Islamic State-linked militant group have been sentenced to life imprisonment for their roles in the kidnapping of foreign and Filipino nationals in Malaysia nearly 25 years ago, the Philippine Department of Justice announced on Monday, October 21. In April 2000, Islamist extremist group Abu Sayyaf abducted 21 people at gunpoint from a holiday resort on …
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An American woman who laughed as she filmed her boyfriend suffocating to death was ‘justified in her actions’, a jury was told. Sarah Boone appeared on Friday, October 18 at a court in Orlando, Florida charged with the second degree murder of her partner Jorge Torres, who was found dead in a suitcase at their apartment in February 2020. …
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The Kwara State Police Command says the three police officers, Abiodun Kayode, Mr James Emmanuel, and Mr Oni Philip, who were recently dismissed over the k!lling of a student of Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, Qoyum Abdulyekeen Ishola, have been charged to court. A statement released by the command’s spokesperson, DSP Adetoun Ejire-Adeyemi, today October 18, says the dismissed officers …
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King Harris, the 19-year-old son of rapper T.I., was arrested this week in Georgia following an encounter with law enforcement. The incident occurred in Dunwoody on Monday, October 14, when King allegedly nearly collided with a police cruiser while exiting a gas station, prompting the officer to initiate a traffic stop. Upon approaching the vehicle, the officer reported …
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A member of the Yoruba Nation agitators, Adejumo Lateef, has died while in custody, officials of the Nigeria Correctional Services revealed on Wednesday, October 16. Lateef, the 18th defendant in an ongoing trial, was part of a group facing charges in connection with the April 13, 2024 invasion of the Oyo State government Secretariat. The suspects, under the …
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On October 15, 2024, the singer took to Instagram to weigh in on the ongoing court case, stating that the VDM did not do right by him when he advocated for him. Recall that in August 2024, when Davido reportedly arrested the singer, VDM took to social media to plead for his release. In the video posted, Krane said, “I …
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It would be recalled that Tunde Ayeni wrote the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), recently, asking it to void any international passport presented by Abuja town lady, Adaobi Alagwu and her child, bearing his name and declaring such document illiegitimate. Ayeni, speaking through his lawyer, Dele Adesina (SAN) established that Alagwu’s daughter isn’t entitled to the use of his name on …
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A Bolivian court has issued an arrest warrant for former president Evo Morales accused of statutory r@pe and human trafficking after he failed to testify this week. Evo Morales is accused of fathering a child with an unnamed 15-year-old child while in office in 2016, when he was 57-years old. The girl’s parents are said to have …
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The Federal High Court in Lagos has fixed November 1, 2024, to rule on the application by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for the final forfeiture of the $2.045million, seven choice landed properties and shares involving former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele. On the same date, the court will also rule on the …
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