The police on Wednesday arraigned a 22-year-old man, Eniola Kareem, at an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court for allegedly stealing a Bible and phone worth N2,500 from Word Life Bible Church, Ayobo, Lagos. Kareem, who resides at No. 22, Ijesha St., Ayobo in Lagos, is charged with theft. The Prosecution Counsel, Sgt. Samuel Mishozumu, told the court…
An Indiana teenager who fatally stabbed her mother has been sentenced to 45 years in prison. Chastinea Reeves, a 17 year old on Wednesday sentenced by a Lake Superior Court judge as part of a plea deal, the Chicago Tribune reports. During the hearing, the teen told the judge she regretted murdering her mother. “If…
An Ikeja Sexual Offences Court, Lagos State has been told how a suspected armed robber, Babatunde Oluwaleke, sexually assaulted a teacher in her home, using polythene bag as a condom. NewTelegraph gathered that the teacher, names withheld, working with a Catholic Secondary School in Lagos, told the court how Oluwaleke raped her in her home….
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has rejected the plea of former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Oloye Jumoke Akinjide to transfer her case to new judge in a money laundering suit. She was arraigned last January 16 before Justice Muslim Hassan but the matter was transferred to Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke at…
The Lagos State Government has taken over the prosecution of a dismissed Police Inspector, Olalekan Ogunyemi, charged with the March 31 murder of a football enthusiast, Mr Kolade Johnson. Its Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) on Monday recommended Ogunyemi’s prosecution in a high court. Ogunyemi has been in prison custody since April 5 following his…
A housewife, Amina Dauda who was accused of killing her husband, Mohammed Matazu, a former reporter with the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN), in Kaduna State was on Friday discharge and acquitted by an FCT High Court in Maitama. Dauda, 28, was arraigned before Justice Hussein Baba-Yusuf, on May 22, 2013, on a one…
Mild drama ensued on Monday at the Ughelli ‘A’ Division police station after a man with no business at the station, walked into the charge room and stole a mobile phone belonging to one of the female officers on duty. The man who is in his mid-40s and simply identified as Moses slumped and allegedly…
The police on Monday arraigned a 27-year-old woman, Elizabeth in Lagos for allegedly conspired with three men to kidnap her husband. Elizabeth who appeared before an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court on four counts, charged alongside Ayinde, 28; Salisu, 45, and Ogunbiyi, 43. The pleas of the defendants were not taken by the court as…
An operator of Point of Sale (POS) machine under the business registered name, Twistwell Multiventures, Mr Joseph Okodua, has charged a payment system service provider in Nigeria, Unified Payment Services Limited (UPSL) to court for non-remittant profit of N2.6million. Twistwell Multiventures brokered business transaction agreement with Unified Payment Services Limited in which POS machine in…
A State High Court sitting in Ibadan has granted bail to Hon. Olafisoye Akinmoyede, the Chief Whip of the Oyo State House of Assembly, who was linked with the murder of Hon. Temitope Olatoye. Akinmoyede, through his counsel, Mr Michael Lana, had filed an enforcement of fundamental human right suit against the police for detaining…
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