The Delta state Chief Judge, Justice Marshal Umukoro has ordered the released 48 awaiting trial inmates from Kwale and Ugwashi-Uku prisons after a routine visit. This...
The Embassy of Nigeria in Chad on Friday said no fewer than 102 Nigerians were in the country’s prisons, serving varying jail terms. Charge d’Affaires in...
A Kaduna Upper Sharia Court on Friday, sentenced a 32-year-old mechanic, Sale Musa, to 24 months in prison for stealing a tricycle worth N700,000. Musa, who...
Justice Joyce Abdulmaleek of the Federal High Court Ibadan, on Tuesday, sentenced Olayinka Taiwo, propietress of Sunshine Group of Schools Ibadan to five years in prison...
An Ilorin Chief Magistrates’ Court on Thursday ordered the remand of Babatunde Omotosho, 32, in Oke-kura Prison. Chief Magistrate Ibiwoye Olawoyin who gave the order also...
A rapist serving a life sentence has absconded from an open prison. Police have warned people not to approach Wayne Jones, who is an inmate at...
A Chinese writer has been given a ten year sentence for writing and selling a novel which featured gay sex scenes. The writer, identified as Liu,...
A Gudu Upper Area Court, Abuja, on Wednesday sentenced a 33-year-old man, Ifeanyi Matthew, to one year imprisonment for attempted robbery. Matthew, who pleaded guilty, was...
A Magistrates’ Court in Kano on Wednesday ordered the remand of a businessman, Balarabe Habibu, in prison over alleged defilement of a nine-year-old boy. Habibu, 41, residing...
The Ekiti Chief Judge, Justice Ayo Daramola, on Thursday granted pardon to 44 inmates of the Ado-Ekiti Federal Prisons. Daramola freed the inmates when he led...
A U.S. man who was found innocent after serving 25 years in prison was given 10 million U.S. dollars on Wednesday as compensation. The settlement set...
Osaro Ogbemudia, 39, was on Monday ordered remanded in Prison custody for allegedly defiling a 7-years-old girl. Ogbemudia who was arraigned before an Evboriaria Magistrate Court...
An Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday ordered the remand of three men- Samuel Farotimi, Sunday Ajimoko and Tayo Ilugbo, for allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl....
An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court, on Tuesday, remanded a furniture maker, Adeboye Muyideen, 25, charged with conspiracy and stealing, at the Kirikiri Prisons custody. His plea was,...
An Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ court Ibadan on Monday remanded a teenager, Emmanuel Ajayi, 18, in prison for alleged attempt to kill his neighbour. The Chief Magistrate,...
In this report, BEATRICE GONDYI chronicles the beginning of the end of the long awaited judgement of Bauchi State Governorship...
Dr Tom Ohikere, a two-time commissioner, is secretary of media and publicity committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Campaign...
Ahead of the November 16 governorship election in Kogi State, the director-general of Bello/Onoja campaign council, Senator Smart Adeyemi, in...
Despite the efforts of donor agencies towards child malnutrition response in the north east, a huge funding gap still exists....
Tackling malnutrition among the internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the Boko Haram ravaged states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa has...