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Nigerian man, Gift Kenneth, has been sentenced to jail alongside his mother and girlfriend for defrauding an American lady, Lucinda Ann Garnes Henrichson, of about $902,935 (about N371 million). He and the two others - his mother, Dora…

Justice M.S. Shuaibu of Federal High Court sitting in Kaduna state has convicted and sentenced members of a notorious syndicate of fraudsters comprising five Nigerians and a Nigerien (a man from Niger). The Nigerien, Magaji Musa (a.k.a…

A 23-year-old man caught having sex with an animal for the second time has reportedly been convicted of bestiality charges. The convict, Isaac Cluley was sentenced at Leicester Crown Court on Wednesday, leaving the judge asking if he has…

A 23-year-old Nigerian lady, Oyindamola Akinrinola, has been convicted for her role in fraud schemes that targeted victims across the United States. The university at University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, pleaded guilty in a…

An Abu Dhabi Federal Court of Appeal in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has reportedly convicted six Nigerians over alleged funding of Boko Haram. The convicts, according to Daily Trust, were tried and convicted in 2019. The appellate…

Harvey Weinstein, a former US filmmaker, has tested positive for coronavirus, in prison. Citing officials at Wende Correctional Facility in Western New York, Niagara Gazette, a local newspaper in Albany, said the 68-year-old tested…

Egypt has hung 15 militants who were convicted of carrying out attacks on security forces in the Sinai Peninsula in 2013, authorities say. The executions were carried out on Tuesday in two prisons in the north of the country where the…

Eniola Balogun, 20, has been jailed after being convicted of multiple rapes following two trials. Balogun pleaded guilty at Wood Green Crown Court on 19 September to four counts of rape on four separate teenage girls, aged between 13…

An FCT High Court in Abuja will on October 4 sentence a Polish woman, Dora Gilmaska, convicted of N9 million fraud. This is contained in a statement issued by the spokesman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Wilson…

The South African Supreme Court of Appeal has found Paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius guilty of murder for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day two years ago, throwing out his previous manslaughter…