An Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Uyo on Thursday sentenced a 29-year-old resident pastor of Living Faith Church, popularly known as Winners Chapel, to death by hanging for the murder of his landlord, Gabriel Bassey Edward. The trial judge, Justice Gabriel Ette, found Prince Emmanuel Umoh, who served at the Ifa Ikot Ubo–Ifa…
A student of the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, is to die by hanging for killing girlfriend. A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt convicted the 400-level Petrochemical Engineering student, Damian Okoligwe, on Friday. The judgment by Justice Chinwe Nsirim-Nwosu brings to a close a case that gripped the UNIPORT community since…
A Nigerian soldier serving with the 3 Division of the Nigerian Army in Jos, Plateau State, Private Lukman Musa, has been sentenced to death by hanging by a General Court Martial sitting at Maxwell Khobe Cantonment for the murder of a tricycle rider, Abdulrahman Isa, in Azere town, Bauchi State. The death sentence was handed…
The Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Uyo, has sentenced a soldier and one other accomplice to death by hanging for armed robbery while the third accused earlier linked to the crimes was freed for insuffient evidence. The two convicts were found guilty of robbing commercial tricycle operators, popularly known as ‘Keke Napep,’ at…
Justice Njideka Nwosu-Iheme of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), sitting at Wuse Zone 2, Abuja, has sentenced Peter Nwachukwu, husband of the late gospel singer Osinachi, to death by hanging. The judgement, delivered Monday, comes after the court found him guilty of culpable homicide, which led to the singer’s death on…
Five persons have been sentenced to death for the murder a woman whom they accused of witchcraft. They were convicted and sentenced by a Kano State High Court on Monday for killing the 67-year-old woman named Dahare Abubakar. The convicted men—Da’luta Ibrahim, Abdulaziz Yahaya, Faisal Yahaya, Ibrahim Abdu, and Ayuba Abdulrahman—were found guilty of culpable…
