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Four men bag life jail for kidnapping in Ekiti

4 months ago1014 min

An Ekiti State High Court, Ado Ekiti Division has sentenced four men to life imprisonment for kidnapping a 75-year-old woman in Ikere Ekiti. The defendants, Adeoye Sunday, Adewusi Dare, Bamigboye Damilola and Ogunlayi Seun, were also on Monday sentenced to five years imprisonment each for the offence of conspiracy. The court, however, discharged and acquitted the fifth defendant, Ojo Tope, of the charges levelled against them. The defendants were tried for the kidnap on September...

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Wife may bag jail term for tearing husband’s passport at Lagos airport – NIS

4 months ago1058 min

A Nigerian woman named Favour Igiebor, who tore up her husband’s passport at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, could face a jail term as punishment for her actions if found guilty, according to the Nigeria Immigration Service Act of 2015 (as amended). The NIS had on Monday revealed that it had launched an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the destruction of a man’s passport by his wife, identified as Favour Igiebor, stating that she had...

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Two bag 10-year jail term for illegal possession of firearm in Delta

5 months ago953 min

A High Court sitting in Kwale, Ndokwa West Local Government Area of Delta State, has sentenced two men to ten years in imprisonment for illegal possession of a cut-to-size single-barrel gun. The court presided over by Justice O. F Enenmo sentenced the two men to jail on Monday. The defendants Joshua Anamali, 25, and Nelson Adoh, 30, years respectively are in custody at the custodial center, Kwale. The two defendants were arrested by police during...

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Three bag life jail for raping married woman in Kebbi

5 months ago845 min

Three men, Amiru Sani, Aliyu Umar, and Bashar Dan-Inno of Wararin Zaromawa village, were on Tuesday sentenced to life imprisonment by the Kebbi State High Court presided by Justice Shamsudeen Jafar for raping an 18-year-old deaf, married woman. PUNCH Metro gathered that the convicts were arraigned for two counts of criminal conspiracy and rape, offences punishable under Sections 259 and 60 of the Kebbi State Penal Code Law, 2021. The court heard that the acts...

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Three bag life jail for raping deaf woman in Kebbi

5 months ago2783 min

Justice Shamsudeen Jafar of the Kebbi High Court, on Tuesday, sentenced to life three men, Amiru Sani, Aliyu Umar, and Bashar Dan-Inno of Wararin Zaromawa village, for raping an 18-year-old deaf woman in the state. PUNCH Metro gathered that the convicts faced two counts of criminal conspiracy and rape, offences punishable under sections 259 and 60 of the Kebbi State Penal Code Law, 2021. The court heard that the acts were perpetrated at Wararin Zaromawa...