Popular celebrity, Cubana Chief Priest, has issued a strong warning to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu over sentencing of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader, Nnamdi Kanu. The celebrity promoter said the 2027 election will be a tough battle for the president in the South-East if Kanu is not released. He made the remarks shortly after…
Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, on Wednesday, convicted and sentenced one Samuel Ihechukwu Asiegbu to three years imprisonment without an option of fine for his role in an N8.56 billion fraud involving one of the first generation banks. Asiegbu was arraigned alongside several other defendants on a four-count…
An Upper Area Court sitting in Naka, Gwer West Local Government Area of Benue State, presided over by Judge Gbagyo Orkpe, has convicted and sentenced a herder, one Adamu Ango of Doma Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, to four years imprisonment for contravening Section 19 Subsection (1) and (2) of the Open Grazing Prohibition…
A federal appeals court in Manhattan has upheld singer R. Kelly’s racketeering and sex trafficking convictions, along with his 30-year prison sentence. Kelly was sentenced in 2022 to more than 30 years in prison for sexually abusing fans, some of them children, racketeering, and sex trafficking. The 2nd US circuit court of appeals which ruled…
A Professor of Human Kinetics, Ignatius Uduk, a professor at the University of Uyo, is to spend the next six years in jail for electoral fraud. An Akwa Ibom State High Court sentenced the Professor who was said to have committed the offence during the 2019 general election. The Independent National Electoral Commission preferred a…
Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the Federal High Court, Calabar, on Monday January 13, 2025 convicted and sentenced Olufunsho Dayo Chevy , Uwem Udo Nya to various jail terms for oil theft alongside a vessel, MT New Angel and a company, Edi Eurolink Distribution. They were prosecuted by the Uyo Directorate of the Economic and Financial…
In an unprecedented development, a New York judge has scheduled President-elect Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush money case for January 10, just days before he is set to return to the White House. Judge Juan M. Merchan, who oversaw Trump’s trial, announced on Friday, January 3, that the former and future president would not…
