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A Lagos State Special Offences (Mobile) Court sitting at Oshodi has sentenced a socialite, Ms Chidinma Ogbulu better known as Erelu Okin, to two years in prison for distributing petrol as a souvenir during a party. Chief Magistrate…

A Borno State High Court, sitting in Maiduguri, has sentenced a civil servant, Ma’aji Shettima Arfo, to 28 years in jail for engaging in an N86.1 million contract fraud. Arfo, who was sentenced to jail by Justice Haruna Mshellia, of…

Supporters of former South African President, Jacob Zuma on Sunday vowed to render the country ungovernable if he is jailed. It would be recalled that Zuma was on Tuesday, June 29 sentenced to 15 months by country’s Constitutional…

An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court has sentenced John Otema, an alumnus of the University of Lagos, to 50 years imprisonment for raping a 19-year-old student of the institution on campus. On January 17, 2018,…

Angola's Supreme Court has handed a five-year jail sentence to Jose Filomeno dos Santos, the son of the oil-rich country's former president for $500m fraud. Dos Santos, 42, was summoned before the court in December over allegations…

A fake lawyer, Adedeji Ebenezer Oluwagbenga, has sentenced to three years imprisonment with hard labor and without the option of fine in Ogun state. Police said Oluwagbenga was arrested on August 5 at Itori Chief Magistrate Court,…

The Federal High Court in Lagos has on Tuesday sentenced Mrs Damilola Adeyeri and her son, Alaba, to twelve years imprisonment each for defrauding an American to the tune of $82,570. Justice C.J. Aneke convicted the mother and son of…

A 62-year-old former doctor, Martin Watt, who built up a terrifying stock pile of guns and made an ‘assassination list’ has been jailed for 12 years. It was discovered that he kept the names and addresses of those involved in his…