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Okupe starves off jail, pays N13m conviction fine

    Doyin Okupe, former Senior Special Assistant (SSA) on Media to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, on Monday evening, paid N13 million for the 52-year jail...

Muslim TV preacher bags 8, 658 years in jail

  An Istanbul court, on Wednesday, sentenced a Muslim televangelist who surrounded himself with scantily clad women he called “kittens” to 8,658 years in prison...

EFCC chairman, Bawa, jailed for contempt

  Justice Chizoba Oji of an FCT High Court has ordered the committal of the Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, to prison...

Baba Ijesha goes to jail 

  Nollywood actor, Olanrewaju James, better known as Baba Ijesha, has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old minor by an Ikeja Special Offences...

2023: Character and performance criteria for President-Obasanjo

…Says some presidential aspirants should be in jail if EFCC did its job   Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Saturday said character and performance in...

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Senate mulls life imprisonment for kidnappers  

  …Proposes 30 years jail term for ransom collection     A bill proposing life imprisonment for the offence of kidnapping or any form of abduction, wrongful...

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Fascist legislators at work:Propose to jail protesters for five year

Fascist legislators at work:Propose to jail protesters for five year A bill proposing a five-year jail term for unlawful protesters in the country has scaled through...

Jail break aborted in Kano

  Security agents on Thursday evening prevented an attempted jailbreak at the Kurmawa Correctional Centre in Kano metropolis. A reliable source at the prison said...

From grace to grass: Sarkozy goes to jail for three years

A court in France has sentenced its former president, Nicolas Sarkozy, to three years in prison after finding him guilty of corruption and influence-peddling. The court...

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Blasphemy: Int’l campaign mounts for clemency for 13-yr-old jailed 10 years

…..People offer to serve part of his jail term After a religious court in northwest Nigeria sentenced a 13-year-old boy,Omar Farouk to 10 years in prison for...